The Risk Podcast

The Risk Podcast is a series of talks and discussions with Financial Services Risk Leaders detailing the Journey to the Top of these industries, as well as Thought Leaders sharing Unique Insights, drawn from First-Hand Experience on the most Trending Topics.

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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 per...

Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 1

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 C...

Mar 28, 2021•28 min

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 T...

Mar 19, 2021•33 min•Ep. 8

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 Res...

Mar 18, 2021•23 min•Ep. 7

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 Fi...

Mar 09, 2021•19 min•Ep. 6

Episode 5 | Tarik Erk

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 ...

Feb 23, 2021•31 min•Ep. 5

Episode 4 | Martin Wilson & James Young

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 worl...

Feb 16, 2021•42 min•Ep. 4

Episode 3 | Nirvana Farhadi

Nirvana is a thought leader, pioneer, author, keynote speaker, and recognised global influencer in the Regulatory Technology (RegTech) sector. But most of all she is a teacher and advocate for humane ethical technology, and ensuring that we embed compliance by design at the development stage of technology to mitigate risk. In this episode Nader is joined by Nirvana to discuss: * RegTech * The impact Covid had in accelerating the use of Regulatory Technology * Solving regulatory problems through ...

Feb 09, 2021•26 min•Ep. 3

Episode 2 | Vishwas Khanna

Vishwas is one of the Partners at Avantage Reply, before joining Avantage Reply Vishwas was a Director at Deloitte UK. Vishwas has a history of leading teams and complex risk transformations for wholesale, investment, retail challenger banks, and FinTechs in the UK and across EMEA. In this episode Nader is joined by Vishwas to discuss: What happened to Risk functions in 2020. Climate Change - why is it so important right now and what are Financial Services firms doing about it. Learnings from th...

Jan 27, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1 | Nicole Schepanek

Nicole is a Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group. Nicole is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences, as well as a university lecturer and business mentor. In this episode Jermaine is joined by Nicole to discuss: InsurTech Digital distribution; how long it takes to implement and what insurers can do to expedite a transition into a more tech-led solution What proactive steps market-leading Insurers can take now to ensure they can keep up to speed with the Tech-lead Insu...

Jan 25, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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