Episode 6 | Nicola Crawford

S2 E1 | Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities within Risk functions in 2024

Welcome back to The Risk Podcast! In our season 2 premiere, Nader Beshara is joined by special guests Vishwas Khanna and Rayan Bhattacharya to dive into the biggest challenges and opportunities clients are facing as we step into the second half of 2024. In this episode, they explore the true extent of the impact AI will have on risk functions. With the world and market landscape having dramatically evolved over the past few years, this discussion promises fresh insights and thought-provoking perspectives on what's new in the world of risk. Other points of discussion include: * Operational resilience  * The future of the risk function  * The role of CROs as risk champions  * PRA/FCA and ECB priorities outlined for 2024

Episode 9 | Taavi Tamkivi

Taavi is the CEO and founder of Salv, a RegTech based in Estonia. Salv is an anti-money laundering platform built to help Banks and FinTech organisations fight Financial Crime. Taavi has studied Data Science, Machine Learning, and Probability Theory, and has a decade long experience from building up AML and fraud solutions at Skype and TransferWise. In this episode Jermaine is joined by Taavi to discuss: * What the AML platform offers to Banks and FinTechs * RegTech * AML Bridge Data Sharing Project * Cryptocurrency and Blockchain * What can Banks and FinTech’s learn from the Cryptocurrency world

Episode 8 | Shilpa Arora

Shilpa is an experienced business leader with a strong track record of success in financial crime prevention, risk and controls, large-scale business and technology transformation, strategic change execution, and business risk management in the financial services sector. She is a former Head of Financial Crime Prevention at Barclays and Santander UK. In this episode Nader is joined by Shilpa to discuss: * ACAMS and Shilpa's career journey * Advice to candidates wanting to move into financial crime * The three lines of defence model, how effective is this in mitigating financial crime risk? * The difference in the way banks apply the 3LOD model versus FinTechs and other non-financial institutions * The use of technology and AI * How is the culture of AML is evolving in regulated entities * Gender diversity in the financial crime prevention field

Episode 7 | Ariane Chapelle

Ariane is the Managing Partner and Founder of Chapelle. A management consultancy comprised of experienced and passionate risk specialists, dedicated to providing clients its community with the best advisory and training services in operational risk and enterprise risk management. In this episode Nader is joined by Ariane to discuss: * Chapelle has received the award “Best Risk Management Advisory & Training Firm – Europe”, at Finance Awards 2020! – what makes Chapelle the best? * Operational Resilience: what challenges remain for firms and regulators? * One of the Top 10 Operational Risks for 2021 was “employee wellbeing” –  this replaced last year’s ops risk of 'Talent risk' – what is the development of this? * Remote Management of a Global Risk Management team

Episode 6 | Nicola Crawford

Nicola is a highly accomplished/qualified Board-Level Global Risk & Compliance Leader with CRO/Head of Risk experience. She is responsible for designing, driving, and implementing enterprise risk management frameworks from strategy, data, operations, and technology perspective, prudential risk, compliance, and operational business change to minimise corporate and commercial risk across multiple sectors. In this episode Nader is joined by Nicola to discuss: * Operational Resilience * With many Financial Services firms going through some form of digital transformation – how can the risk arising from operational disruption be managed/ mitigated? * Climate Change Risk - what are some of the most important trends risk professionals need to be aware of? * ESG and Diversity in Risk