In this episode of Risky Women Radio, host Kimberley Cole kicks off Series 7 by discussing the predictions for 2024 in the field of risk regulation and compliance. She is joined by Carol Beaumier and Bernadine Reese from Protiviti, who share their insights on the compliance environment over the past decade and the evolving role of the Chief Complia…

Jenny Wong of Protiviti and Debra Au, Head of Legal for DBS Hong Kong, explore the complexity of the compliance landscape in APAC as part of the Protiviti 2023 Top Risk Report. SHOW NOTES 00:01 Compliance landscape and career journey 04:42 Regulatory challenges and adapting to technological changes in APAC 10:02 Compliance function evolution and AI…

Kimberly Dickerson of Protiviti and Star McDade, SVP for Audit Services at USAA, discuss moving from activity based work to a more value added model and how to shift the mindset to an advisory audit role. SHOW NOTES 00:01 Adding value in risk and assurance profession 04:09 Risk management and business strategy alignment 08:45 Risk assessment, emerg…

Kimberley Cole interviews Chrissy Hill, general counsel at Parity Technologies. The episode explores the concept of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) and their impact on governance and compliance in the rapidly evolving landscape of blockchain, Web3, and the metaverse. Show Notes 03:19 Career Journey 07:42 Working with Tony Blair: Mergi…

Kimberley Cole speaks with Emma Parry of Novafin Consulting about her journey from banking COO to conduct risk and culture advisor – what’s trending in tech, regulators and how to use your transferable skills. Emma Parry is a C suite and board advisor with broad international investment banking experience. Following a successful career in financial…

Kimberley Cole speaks with Jennifer Geary, a 25-year veteran of the Risk industry, about her handbook for the modern Chief Risk Officer - practical advice, and skills you can bring into your own role as a CRO. Jennifer Geary has over 25 years of experience in finance, technology, risk and legal, across diverse industries from financial services to …

Tonya Hummers, Managing Director at Protiviti, speaks with Sarah Olthoff, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Risk Officer at Discover, about talent management, the nature of work, and the skills risk roles need most. Sarah K. Olthoff serves as a Senior Vice President of Business Risk Programs at Discover Financial Services. In this role, Sara…

Maryann Kennedy speaks with the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Grovetta Gardineer, about the regulatory priorities in current economic environment. Grovetta Gardineer is the Senior Deputy Comptroller for Bank Supervision Policy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency …

Kimberley Cole speaks with Anna-Marie Slot on how companies can and should embed ESG into core business strategies and why risk professionals are uniquely placed to drive that change. Anna-Marie is the first global sustainability ESG partner for Ashurst and a finance partner as well. She brings a unique combination of legal, finance and ESG experti…

Kimberley Cole speaks with Juliet Bourke on board composition and best practices for creating future fit organisations with diversity of thought and culture change. Dr Juliet Bourke is an award winning author, speaker and advocate for diversity. She was a former Human Capital Partner at Deloitte leading Deloitte’s Diversity and Inclusion Consulting…

Kimberley Cole speaks with Carol Beaumier and Bernadine Reese from Protiviti. We’re thrilled that they are back again to talk about the top of mind compliance priorities for 2023. Show Notes 03:29 Examples of the risks in the uncertainty category 07:14 Technology trends that will impact compliance 09:54 Financial Crime compliance 12:23 How to keep …

Kimberley Cole speaks with Stacey English and Susannah Hammond of Theta Lake about the risks modern communication platforms bring, recent regulatory actions, and what you can do to be compliant without turning off features in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral! Show Notes 02:04 Career Journeys 08:37 Top Skills for the Ultimate Compliance Profession…

Kimberley Cole talks with Rahmat Amanullah, Director South Asia at Control Risks, about intelligence, investigations and integrity in risk and what we can learn from some of the world's most complex sectors like pharmaceuticals and alcoholic beverages. Show Notes01:29 Career Journey 16:30 The 3 I's of Risk: Intelligence, Investigations and Integrit…

Denis Camilo, Risk and Compliance Director at Protiviti, talks with Lauren Munfa, Head of Americas Investment Bank C&ORC at UBS, about how much her parent management training translated to running a large compliance program. SHOW NOTES 00:51 Career Journey 03:58 Top Skills for Risk Management 08:05 The Importance of Immediate and Consistent Rewards…

Kimberley Cole talks with Rupal Patel, Head of Data Insights & Risk Intelligence at Acin and Founder of Women in Risk and Control, about moving operational risk from a solely qualitative discipline to a data led one and why connection and networks are key! Show Notes 01:51 Career Journey 12:46 Biggest Risks 20:53 Women in Risk and Control 27:51 Aci…

Shaheen Dil, Senior Managing Director of Protiviti, in conversation with Ximena Zambrano, Senior Vice President and Head of Model Validation at Wells Fargo on the evolution of risk analytics and technological advances in data science (AKA are machines taking over?) Show Notes 03:37 Career Journey 07:08 Key Risks Ahead 10:21 Advanced Analytics & Uni…

Kimberley Cole talks with our first Risky Man Nathan Lynch, a regulatory intelligence professional and author of The Lucky Laundry. They discuss the real world outcomes of financial crime, the status of Australia and how compliance and risk professionals are critically important to prevention. SHOW NOTES 01:41 Career Journey 12:04 The Lucky Laundry…

Kimberley Cole talks with Catherine Fox, award winning journalist and author of Stop Fixing Women, about diversity risk and the need to invest in women. This is the first of our Risk Radar Series which takes a 360 degree view of risks facing leaders, everyone from boards to management teams and individuals. Show Notes 02:24 Career Journey 09:28 Key…

Christine Halvorsen, Managing Director of Protiviti, talks with Lynn Haaland, Zoom’s Chief Compliance Ethics and Privacy Officer, and Deputy General Counsel. They discuss everything from how Lynn joined Zoom only weeks before COVID-19 pandemic changed the world and Zoom to the next big challenges ahead in privacy and cybersecurity compliance. Show …

Christine Halvorsen, Managing Director of Protiviti, talks with Lynn Haaland, Zoom’s Chief Compliance Ethics and Privacy Officer, and Deputy General Counsel. They discuss everything from how Lynn joined Zoom only weeks before COVID-19 pandemic changed the world and Zoom to the next big challenges ahead in privacy and cybersecurity compliance. SHOW …

Shelley Metz-Galloway, US lead of Protiviti’s regulatory compliance practice, talks with Mary Bailey, regulatory compliance expert, about the US Community Reinvestment Act and how upcoming changes to the rule should improve access to credit and have a big impact on banks’ compliance and reporting. Show Notes 01:37 Career Journey 08:21 International…

Jackie Sanz of Protiviti talks with Amy Aubin, a CCO of two firms in Canada, about compliance and risk challenges faced by compliance professionals of smaller firms in the asset management industry, where innovation and access to compliance networks are of importance in the management of risk. Show Notes 02:13 Career journey 06:08 Risks in Smaller …

Kimberley Cole speaks with senior risk and compliance leaders at Protiviti about financial services industry compliance priorities for 2022: traditional issues like financial crime, broader risk mandates, ESG, culture and conduct, vulnerable customers, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and more. Show Notes 03:05 Career journey 06:08 What’s dif…

Guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Carol Beaumier who oversees Protiviti’s Asia-Pac Financial Services Practice about cyber and ESG risks, talent retention and the consequences of not transforming. Show Notes 02:19 Career journey 06:22 Emerging risks in financial services 09:25 Talent retention 11:00 Consequence of not transforming 11:56 Rants & Re…

Guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Donna Timlen, CCO of OneMain Financial – America’s largest installment lender, about their compliance transformation: talent, technology, strategy and a root cause focus. Show Notes 02:51 Career journey 07:42 Innovation at OneMain Financial 12:22 Protecting talent 14:37 Technology use 16:24 Root cause focus 18:09 …

Guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Sophie Krynauw, Transformation Audit Director at Zurich Insurance, about the future of insurance and workplaces in a digital environment with global collaborative teams focusing on outcomes rather than process. Show Notes 02:31 Career journey 06:45 Transition during COVID-19 10:44 Future of audit 14:22 Workforce s…

Amii and Diana discuss career transformation opportunities, future proofing, your promotability, what Risky Women should do, and the impact of women on boards. Show Notes 03:14 Career Journeys 15:01 Transformation Opportunities 24:36 Future Proof 29:17 The Promotability Index 30:53 What Risky Women Should Do 40:24 Impact of Women on Boards 46:28 Ra…

Next in our Transformation series, guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Jo Ann Barefoot about RegTech innovation from how regulators are using technology to how financial services need to urgently expand their experimentation and adoption rates. Show Notes 01:47 Career journey 01:56 Alliance on Innovative Regulation 15:37 Top priorities for financial…

Next in our Transformation series, guest host Lucy Pearman talks with Diane Minunni Callan of TD Bank about their ongoing development and enhancement of compliance programs and regulatory change management processes - from ESG to AI. Show Notes 01:57 Career Journey in Risk 04:12 TD Bank Transformation 05:08 Regulatory Challenges & Opportunities 07:…

Join our chat with Karyn Kenny on a career ranging from the John Gotti trial in New York to tribal justice in Borneo, from AML in Bangladesh to Croatia. Karyn serves as US DOJ’s OPDAT for SE Europe regional justice sector initiative, overseeing anti money laundering, asset forfeiture, anti corruption and transnational organized crime. Show Notes 03…

This is the start of our Transformation series and Lucy Pearman of Protiviti will be joining us as guest host. We will be talking about change innovation and take a look ahead at the views from some amazing Risky Women on what’s next in the world of governance, risk, and compliance. Show Notes 02:06 Career Journey in Transformation 10:04 Biggest Ch…

Kelly-Ann McHugh interviews Kate Miller, leader of Standard Chartered Bank’s Conduct & Behavioral Analysis team. She discusses how they are using behavioral science to build a bridge between what we think is happening and what’s actually happening on the ground and then influence behaviors towards better outcomes. Show Notes 02:37 Career Journey to…

Kelly-Ann McHugh interviews Elke Biechele, CEO of RisikoTek on moving from global corporate banking to central banking to running her own regtech startup. Their AI Amalia is focused on tackling the $5trillion financial crime issue by raising detection levels from the current 0.01%. SHOW NOTES 04:08 Career & Uncovering Scale of Financial Crime 10:49…

Kelly-Ann McHugh interviews Namita Bhide, Founder of Denim Consulting, on innovation in the financial service sector and why moving to a "proof of value" rather than "proof of concept" model is key to making collaborative, simplified, customer centric change. SHOW NOTES 01:54 Career Journey & Risky Choices 14:53 Trends, Introspection & Collaboratio…

Kelly-Ann McHugh is the director of Asia Pacific for MyComplianceOffice based in Singapore. She's a passionate business leader focused on technology, risk, and compliance and in this episode we're talking about conflicts of interest, gifts and entertainment, and the results of their global survey. SHOW NOTES 02:37 Key Issues for Financial and Corpo…

Meena Datwani and Lonneke van Zundert, APAC compliance and security experts, discuss their views on COVID-19 pandemic policies in compliance, workplace, regulatory affairs and security. SHOW NOTES 04:18 Asia Situation Update 11:11 Government Response 17:53 Doing Work From Home Right 22:19 Internal Communications 24:51 Cyber Security & Financial Cri…

Pru Bennett joins our first podcast of season 3 to discuss the spectrum of ESG and the impact boards can make, how they can proactively manage risk, what they should be asking themselves, and how diversity has changed performance for the better. Until January, 2019, Pru Bennett was a Managing Director at BlackRock and Head of BlackRock’s Investment…

Welcome to Risky Women Radio season three! This season we’ve got more fabulous Risky Women joining us and sharing their stories, their advice, their knowledge and their perspective. And we’re going to have a few new things for you! We’ll have guest hosts joining us bring you new voices and first up is Kelly-Ann McHugh from My Compliance Office. She…

Sarah Hayes, Head of Department, Lending and Intermediaries, Authorisations at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority joins us in our ongoing Regulator Series. We discuss her career and how the FCA aims to make markets work well – for individuals, for business, and for the economy as a whole. Sarah's a senior executive with a strong track record for …

Join us to hear why The Reg Doctor Sian Lewin thinks Governance, Risk and Compliance is sexy! Yep, you heard it here first. She has studied the waves of regulatory change and their impact on financial services and has a focus on RegTech with her own RegTech Women network and business at RegTech Associates. Points of Interest 01:50 Education & Caree…

Data is just the beginning and in this podcast Sherry Madera talks about the importance of data in fighting financial crime, privacy and more. Sherry’s global career journey has taken her from Canada to China and now the UK and she joins us to offer expert opinion across a range of topics in her capacity as Chief Industry & Government Affairs Offic…

It's all about technology! Joanna Jenkins, Head of Compliance at Railsbank, on the future of Regtech and what it means for the industry and compliance officers. Points of Interest 01:55 Railsbank Explained: Open Banking & Compliance Platform 04:05 Career Journey 10:20 How Regtech is Changing Industries: Financial, Healthcare, Government, Cannabis 1…

Angie Lau, Editor-in-Chief of Forkast.News, on what's happening in regtech, crypto, blockchain, regulatory and the impact of technology on compliance and risk. Before founding Forkast in 2018, Angie anchored Bloomberg TV’s flagship morning show “First Up with Angie Lau” broadcast globally into 350 million homes and offices. She interviews newsmaker…

In this episode risky woman Rachel Wolcott shares insights from Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence team with the inaugural report Financial Crime Compliance for Non-financial Companies: The Expanding Regulatory Perimeter. The report explores why penalties for money laundering violations are becoming more commonplace for non-financial firms and…

Saadia Mujeeb leads 4 global teams at NatWest Markets specializing in Hedge Funds, Mutual and Pension Funds, Prime Brokerage and Counterparty Clearing Houses. The Senior Risk Approver for structured transactions, new business initiatives for Markets, PB, Clearing and the Structured Lending Franchise, she is recognized for pragmatic decision-making …

Join Yuko Kawai, General Manager for Europe at the Bank of Japan, as she discusses her international career. You'll hear about her journey across geographies from Japan to Europe and across functions from FX to FinTech. Kawai-san is a role model and inspiring leader offering interesting views and a global perspective on the developments the financi…

Once described as, “the grit in the oyster that creates the pearl,” Ruth Steinholtz wishes to make a difference in the world by changing attitudes and practices relating to ethics and compliance. Ruth joined the Risky Women event at the Refinitiv Regulatory Summit in Singapore. In this podcast, you will join the event to learn more on the Ethics of…

Join Nicola Wakefield Evans in the Boardroom. As a Non Executive Director of Macquarie, Lend Lease, AICD, and the Chair of Australia’s 30% Club, Nicola shares insight and wisdom on her career, what makes a successful Board, and the best practices needed to create good culture and governance starting at the top. Of course we talk about the impact an…

Welcome to season 2 of Risky Women Radio. We've got some fabulous risky women lined up! We've already held some fabulous events this year in London, Singapore, and Sydney. We'll have Ruth Steinholz of AretéWork’s, who joined us both in Sydney and Singapore, and she spoke on the importance of taking a behavioral and values based approach to complian…

In Season 1 we celebrated 20 women sharing their career journeys and insights across compliance, governance, reputation risk and more. It was fabulous to partner with other podcasts Divercity and #Impact and host the regulators from ASIC too! Take a listen to the highlights from Season 1. Join us at www.riskywomen.org…