About

Boren Kork has enjoyed professional growth and a precipitous rise through her career path in ANZ Royal Bank (Cambodia), first joining in June 2012 as a middle-ranked manager in the lending operations department, moving to the legal department in April 2016 and being made head of legal and company secretary four months later. Now head of legal and compliance, Kork describes her role as ‘leading the team to manage legal risk, regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance and economic and trade sanction programs, and also being the company secretary coordinating corporate affairs in interaction with the board of directors of the bank’. ANZ announced the sale of its 55% stake in ANZ Royal Bank (Cambodia) to the Japanese J Trust Company in May 2018, which Kork has played a major role in streamlining: ‘I have been involved in the share sale transaction of the Bank and leading legal and regulatory work-stream of the separation project’. She has also enacted a major expansion of the capabilities of the legal department, ‘transforming the legal team’ in the process. ‘The team is now recognised as responsive, proactive, approachable, communicating, knowledge-sharing, and innovative in our advice and solutions provided to the business’, she says. ‘I have also built legal capacity and knowledge across the Bank, and have uplifted the Bank’s engagement with employees and community, through my leadership and active participation in the corporate social responsibility activities of the Bank’.