The Risk Podcast Nader Beshara & Jermaine Jefferies

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

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

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

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

Tarik is currently a Director of Compliance and Government Relations for Crypto.com based in Singapore. Tarik is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, member of ACCESS Singapore cryptocurrency and blockchain industry association, JD holder and the founding member of SCAN (Compliance Association & Network of Singapore).

In this episode Jermaine is joined by Tarik to discuss:


What is Cryptocurrency / Blockchain?
Where is the true value added from Cryptocurrency?
Advice for new investors
What does the future of regulation look like for cryptocurrency?
Does Cryptocurrency needs to be more regulated?
Main traits you look for when going through that hiring process
What challenges do you see long-term for the Cryptocurrency market?

Martin is the Head of Financial Crime at Paragon Bank Group and James Young the Head of Compliance and Enterprise Risk at Kantox. Martin is a highly knowledgeable and experienced Financial Crime leader who has worked with the likes of Accenture, Barclays and comes from a MOD investigator background. Martin is also a business mentor and now a Podcast specialist!

James has worked at some interesting businesses and comes from an Insurance background but has gradually moved into the interesting world of FinTech. James is a speaker, mentor, volunteer, and now part of the Steering Committee member for RAW Compliance.

In this episode Jermaine is joined by Martin and James to discuss:


FinTech v Traditional Banking
Why are customers choosing to move to FinTech banks?
What can traditional banks do to ensure they retain and increase their customer base?
How 2020 has been from an MLRO’s perspective.
Financial Crime challenges for 2021?
From a mental health perspective, what else can businesses do to support their employees?
Throughout Covid, how have you both successfully managed to keep your teams engaged?
What skills and attributes do you look out for when hiring?
(other Banking / FinTech perspectives)