Risky Women Radio

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 different for 2022 10:13 Key challenges 15:29 Compliance function’s future 18:33 Innovation examples 20:58 Advice for future CCOs Sign up for more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2022/02/podcast-s5e1-compliance-priorities-for-2022/

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 & Revelations 13:15 Rapid Fire Round

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 D&I, CSR, ESG 20:22 Rants & Revelations 22:35 Rapid Fire Round

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 sustainability 16:35 How are leading companies succeeding? 20:20 Rants & Revelations 22:43 Rapid Fire Round Transcript > https://www.riskywomen.org/2021/08/podcast-s4e6-workplace-transformation-sophie-krynauw/

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 Rants & Revelations 54:36 Rapid Fire Round Transcript and more > https://riskywomen.org/2021/08/podcast-s4e5-career-transformation-amii-barnhard-bahn-diana-wu-david/

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 services innovation 21:45 Regulators and digital transformation 26:24 What truly smart regulation looks like 31:22 What are leading companies doing to get ready? 35:29 Rants & Revelations 41:32 Rapid Fire Round GET TRANSCRIPTS & MORE > https://riskywomen.org/2021/06/podcast-s4e4-regtech-transformation-jo-ann-barefoot/

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 07:06 Leveraging Emerging Technologies 13:14 Rants & Revelations 14:27 Rapid Fire Round Transcript & More: https://riskywomen.org/2021/05/podcast-s4e3-regulatory-change-transformation-diane-minunni-callan/

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 03:26 Career Journey 14:48 Collaboration in Regulatory Landscape 17:34 Public Private Collaboration 21:19 Cryptocurrency Regulation 23:50 FinTech Education 30:41 Rants & Revelations 33:31 Rapid Fire Round Transcripts & more:> https://riskywomen.org/2021/04/podcast-s4e2-collaboration-can-transform-karyn-kenny/

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 Challenges & Opportunities Customers Face 15:48 Transformation’s Top Priorities 19:44 Handling Change & Consequences

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 Compliance 16:44 Conduct & Behavioral Analysis Team 22:31 Examples of Applying Science to an Event 33:57 Top 3 Impacts of Data & Science on Compliance 37:17 Rants & Revelations 40:36 Rapid Fire Round

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 Lessons Learned 13:20 Role Models 16:39 Starting RisikoTek 21:46 Silos & Data Protection 24:01 Amalia AI & Thinking Like a Transnational Money Launderer 35:03 Rants & Revelations 38:38 Rapid Fire Round

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 & Collaboration 23:33 Applied Innovation 26:36 Top Challenges for Financial Services 32:16 Gender Diversity 35:22 Rants & Revelations 38:16 Rapid Fire Round Get Transcript and more: https://www.riskywomen.org/2020/05/podcast-s3e4-is-common-sense-uncommon-in-risk-and-compliance-namita-bhide/

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 Corporate Sectors 04:25 Gift & Entertainment Survey Results 10:00 Best Practices for Gifts & Entertainment Policies 11:59 Conflicts of Interests Policy Recommendations 13:31 Technology's Role

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 Crime Threats 28:47 Conducting Investigations & Reporting 33:20 Keys to Managing COVID-19 Impacts 36:24 Conduct for Financials & Business 42:18 Investing in Technology 47:57 New Post Virus Model? Sign up for more and get transcript on our website >

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 Stewardship team for the APAC Region based in Hong Kong. Pru is an active participant in the public debate on corporate governance and stewardship and in her current role as Principal at Guerdon Associates, she advises boards of Australian companies on issues covering executive and non-executive director remuneration, investor communications and board related ESG issues. Show Notes 03:00 Career Journey 04:50 Why G is most important in ESG 10:40 Who inspires you? 14:45 What should boards be asking? 24:25 Setting tone at the top & mood in the middle 28:08 Diversity on boards 30:17 Rants & Revelations 32:58 Rapid Fire Round Sign up for more and get transcript

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’s been a risky woman since we started in 2015 and she’ll take over the reins for a few episodes of Risky Women Radio.  Kelly-Ann’s risk and compliance credentials span her roles in everything from internal audit to regulatory intelligence and complex compliance.

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 strategic leadership and proposition ownership in financial markets – successfully delivering complex change programs across global organisations. She's known for doing the right thing and getting things done! Points of Interest 01:55 What the FCA Regulator Does 04:32 Phoenixing, Technical Expertise, Expanding Perimeter 06:30 Career Journey 11:03 Trends & Innovations: Regulatory Sandbox, AI, Machine Learning 16:12 Diversity & Inclusion 17:36 Rants & Revelations 19:13 Rapid Fire Round Sign up for more and get transcript on our website >

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 & Career 06:26 RegTech Women’s Network 08:28 State of the Market 10:04 Tracking 600 RegTech Products 15:21 Behavioural Changes 18:52 Financial Crime 21:31 Rants & Revelations 24:53 Rapid Fire Round Get transcript and more on our website >

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 Officer at Refinitiv. Points of Interest 02:09 Career Journey & China Relations 05:59 Current Focus: Sustainability, Infrastructure, Data, Privacy 07:44 Illicit Fund Flows 2-5% Global GDP 11:19 Data Privacy vs Public Good 16:25 AI and Machine Learning 18:30 Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime 22:09 Rants & Revelations 24:48 Rapid Fire Round Get transcript and more on our website >

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 12:06 Exciting Developments: Customers Select Vendors to Integrate, Compliance Firewall 15:46 Pattern Recognition - Fighting Financial Crime, AML, Modern-Slavery 18:23 Enhance Your Technology, Don't Build a Larger Team 19:15 Rapid Fire Round Get transcript and more on our website >