Risky Women Radio

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 >

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 newsmakers, CEOs, and icons, including the exclusive with Li Ka-shing — his first television one-on-one in more than a decade. Points of Interest 01:21 Career in Journalism 07:16 Rants & Revelations 11:32 Forkast.News - The human story of technology 17:33 What are Cryptocurrency and Blockchain? 20:03 Emerging Themes: Easing, Regulatory, Asia, Open Source 29:50 KYC and AML in Crypto 33:01 Regulators and Blockchain 43:03 Country Report on China is coming! Get transcript and more on our website >

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 suggests solutions and recommendations for business as they try to remain compliant. As usual, we’ll also hear from Rachel on her career journey and her quick answers in the rapid fire round too! Points of Interest 01:45 Career 07:25 Why more non-financial firms are coming into having obligations to have financial crime compliance programs 10:27 Main compliance approach to-date 11:44 Greater risk sectors 13:08 Era of deep fakes 18:24 Solutions for tackling financial crime 21:20 Report key takeaways 25:37 Rapid Fire Round Get transcript and more on our website >

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 during tough complex negotiations, effective stakeholder management and commercial judgement.  She founded and co-chairs the 100 Women in Finance Peer Risk Advisory Group in London. Points of Interest 03:34 Building Teams 06:27 Career Journey Success 07:58 Passion for Giving Back 09:22 Hot Topics: Crypto Currency, Climate Risk, Diversity 11:05 Hedge Fund Credit Risk 14:26 Role of Head of Credit Risk 16:37 Key Lessons From the Credit Crisis: Teamwork, Early Warning Signals, Data Overload 18:52 Future Landscape: Counterparty Clearing Houses, Robotics & AI 22:29 Rants & Revelations 23:26 Rapid Fire Round Get transcript and more on our website >

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 financial industry is seeing. Points of Interest: 01:54 Career 03:58 Most important lessons 05:54 Gender diversity in Japan 09:26 Working at the Bank of Japan 12:22 Exciting innovations in FinTech & impact on financial industry 16:26 Global perspectives 18:23 Top things risk professionals should monitor 19:19 Rants and Revelations 20:04 Rapid Fire Round Get transcript and more on our website >

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 Compliance. Following a varied and exciting international legal career, Ruth Steinholtz founded AretéWork in 2011. The firm assists organisations globally in managing risk and improving results by fostering strong ethical cultures based upon values. Previously, as General Counsel and Head of Ethics at Borealis AG, Ruth developed a values based approach to ethics and compliance – employing ethics ambassadors throughout the company. Organisations around the world have adopted this approach; publicised through Ruth’s Good Practice Guide to Ethics Ambassadors written for the IBE and her many speaking engagements.  Ruth continues to push for change through her co-author

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 and value of diversity too! Get transcript and more on our website

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 compliance and enforcement. So ethics is a hot topic and I'm sure that you'll really enjoy the episode with Ruth. We've had several RegTech leaders joining us for this season. We've got The Reg Doctor herself, Sian Lewin. And we've had the fabulous non executive director Nicola Wakefield Evans who'll give us a glimpse inside the boardroom and the key areas of focus to manage risk and drive the right tone from the top. And if you want to understand more on how boards operate, Nicola's episode is really worth the listen. There are many more speakers to mention that we will bring to you in season 2. Yuko Kawai joins us from the Bank of Japan as our first central banker, and we

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

More Risky Women Regulators, or ex-regulators, are featured in this final episode of Series 1. Featuring two longstanding Hong Kong Risky Women, Benedicte Nolens, who recently moved to the global crypto finance company Circle but previously at the Securities and Futures Commission, and Meena Datwani, former Executive Director at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. We cover the spectrum from regulation to RegTech and so much more.

Armina Antoniou is the General Manager of Financial Crime Risk at Australia’s biggest listed gambling and entertainment company, Tabcorp. She is also a soccer mum, sports fan and a big believer in fairness, equality, diversity and inclusion. She joins us to discuss why becoming a risky women was the biggest risk in her 20 year career and her outcome-driven approach to risk and financial crime challenges.

Host Kimberley Cole joins DiverCity Podcast where she discusses the rising number of women in risk & compliance roles and the quest to eliminate modern day slavery. The episode also looks at the importance of mentorship, collaboration and role models, how regulators themselves are starting to create more diverse teams and the need to attract younger talent as well as the enormity of the challenge of addressing human trafficking and the steps financial institutions and their clients can take to help combat the problem.

To kick-off our first Regulator Series, we sit down with three leading women at ASIC, Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator. First up is Senior Executive Leader Sharon Concisom. Responsible for the Markets Enforcement team, she talks to us about her role in enforcing ASIC's market misconduct investigations and litigation. We also hear about her career journey, including time with the Australian Securities Exchange and the Malaysian Bourse, and the experience she has gained working in financial markets.