The APAC crowd skews younger as firms go, and the questions reflected it: most of the room was scaling through a growth curve rather than defending a mature book. Our panel argued that adding risk headcount is the wrong first response to volume, and that the real lever is deciding which alerts a human should ever see.
The room's assumption was that scaling risk means hiring. It doesn't — it means changing what a human is for.
That landed, but the follow-up questions were all about coordinated behaviour — specifically how you separate genuine copy trading from a group gaming the same rule set. It is the hardest detection problem in prop, and the honest answer is that no model settles it alone; you need the evidence trail to make the call defensible afterwards.
Bangkok also had the highest density of firms running multiple platforms side by side. Several were managing MT5 and cTrader books with separate risk processes and wanted to know what a single rule layer across both would actually change operationally.