Keep up to date with the latest industry knowledge and thought leadership on implementations and transformation around Financial Crime, Technology Innovation and Security.
For those of you joining us, here is a quick reminder of key travel details and timings:
Delegate Registration opens at 8:00 am and we’re kicking off the agenda content with the Chair’s opening remarks at 09:00am.
We’ve set aside plenty of time for networking breaks throughout the day including complimentary refreshments and lunch is provided.
The content agenda will wrap up at 05:05pm, followed by drinks reception
There is no fixed dress code for the event, so please do wear what you are comfortable in.
For any further questions regarding our Event, please feel free to contact James directly on the below details.
James Ely, Event Manager
Email: james.ely@transformfinance.com
The TRANSFORM FINANCE Global Series is proud to present three co-located events that will champion bold new ideas, solutions, collaboration, transformation and innovation efforts to ensure we achieve an industry recovery that makes financial services even safer and stronger in the long-term.
To lead your organisation through this time of intense and accelerated vulnerability, we have integrated and expanded our conferences to encompass changing customer expectation, new technology, real-world threats, security, risks, and compliance concerns we are facing today. Focusing on the significant areas of the financial services sector – AML, Fraud, Technology Innovation & Security, we are proud to bring the TRANSFORM FINANCE Global Series to Melbourne.
The co-location of these three events means that it provides a comprehensive offering to the full safe and secure chain strategy within your organisation, bringing the financial sector together under one roof.
Across the TRANSFORM FINANCE: AML, Fraud, Technology Innovation & Security, each focus theater will cover compelling topics and subject-matter experts who will share unparalleled knowledge and thought-leadership to stay on top for financial institutions to be flexible and innovative, while constantly evaluating consumer risk.
Connect with over 300+ senior executives in AML, Fraud, Technology Innovation & Security, across the entire banking and financial services sectors in ANZ, and stay ahead of the curve with the latest developments in an exclusive and engaging in-person environment.
C-suite, VP and Director-level executives will have the chance to delve deep into our multi-theater programmes to collaborate and share best practices. If you work for a bank, fintech, payments, superannuation, insurance company or the wider financial services, this series of events is for you!
300+ Financial Executives | 50+ Industry Speakers | 1 days of top-quality discussion content
Adam Turner is an award-winning Australian technology journalist, corporate writer, podcaster and long-time columnist for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He has written about the technological and cybersecurity challenges facing Australian organisations – from startups and SMBs to enterprise and government – for more than two decades.
Previously the Melbourne deputy editor of Fairfax’s Next biztech section, Adam left The Age after seven years in 2005 to pursue a freelance career. He regularly contributes news, opinion, features, reviews and blogs to a wide range of consumer and business technology publications, as well as corporate clients. He also co-hosts the award-winning Vertical Hold: Behind The Tech News podcast.
Chloe is a seasoned compliance executive and trained lawyer (both in Australian and China) with experience in finance, crypto and products. She worked in a leading law firm and acted for major banks before joining the fintech world. She worked as a compliance executive in several leading crypto companies and now is the head of compliance of Binance Australia.
Demet Kayali is a senior financial crime, compliance and risk leader spanning over 20 years in banking, wealth management, audit and APRA. She has led the Enterprise Financial Crime and Compliance functions at Aware Super, with accountability as the Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Group Privacy Officer. Driven by a passion to protect the community from financial crime, Demet has led wide scale financial crime transformation programs, including developing frameworks, setting up a Financial Crime Centre of Excellence, enhancing controls and deploying enhanced technology to strengthen financial crime detection capability. Demet was awarded the highest performing Master of Business Law graduate at Monash University and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.
Dhivian Govender is the Chief Data, Analytics and Strategy Officer at Recoveriescorp, overseeing the strategy around how data and analytics is used to effectively and efficiently engage with customers.
With over 20 years of experience in the data and analytics space across Australia and New Zealand, he has a passion for turning data science and analytical findings into actionable insight whilst building and growing successful teams.
Dr. Dimitrios Salampasis is the Director, Master of Financial Technologies, FinTech Discipline Leader and Lecturer, FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Swinburne School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship. Dimitrios is a Visiting Professor of FinTech at the University of Québec at Rimouski, Canada, a Blockchain and FinTech Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, a Visiting Faculty at the School of Management in Fribourg, Switzerland and an Academic Council Member of the Global FinTech Institute.
He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Senior Associate within the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a member of the CPA Australia Digital Transformation Centre of Excellence. Dimitrios is the recipient of the 2021 Blockchain Educator of the Year Award by Blockchain Australia and the 2021 Swinburne University Vice Chancellor’s Engagement Award – Industry Engagement (Individual).
Prior joining academia, Dimitrios worked in the management consulting industries being involved in global advisory and consulting activities on emerging market investing assisting companies in developing long-term strategic focus and sustainable market business changes. Dimitrios publishes in international peer-reviewed academic journals and books and his work is regularly presented in major international conferences and invited keynote speeches and lectures around the world. Dimitrios’ areas of specialist expertise, research, teaching, industry engagement, policy and advisory work revolve around the emergence and development of FinTech-enabled business models, Blockchain and crypto assets innovation, business, sustainable development and human rights, quantum computing for business, digital transformation in banking and FinTech education, along with the relevant global FinTech-related regulatory and policy changes.
Dimitrios is regularly involved in advisory work with key private, public and governmental stakeholders of the Australian and international FinTech and broader business ecosystem. Dimitrios has a strong media presence in Australia and abroad.
Eoin has 20 years’ experience in Financial Crimes and Data Analytics, and has worked across APAC and EMEA in a number of Senior Leadership roles.
Eoin joined Link Group in 2012 and is the Head of Financial Crimes responsible for protecting the data and monetary assets of over 30 million individuals. His current remit spans across Fraud Prevention, AML/CTF Reporting, Training & Awareness, Suspicious Matter Reporting, Regulator & Law Enforcement engagement. Eoin is responsible for the strategy, leadership and continuous improvement of the Financial Crimes department, ensuring the people, processes and technology are all operating effectively to mitigate the risk of fraud impacting the wider ecosystem
Banxa is the world’s leading crypto on and off-ramp. We partner with the established giants of our industry in addition to those on the frontier of Web 3 innovation. Igor is based in Melbourne, Australia and have spent the last 10 years learning to fight crime across fraud, financial crime and cybersecurity principles. He believes that blockchain and digital assets are the future of finance. In these still early stages, this provides a sea of opportunity to help shape how society will engage with and adopt this revolutionary technology. Igor is certain that the only way to make a real dent in crypto fraud is an almost “excessive” amount of collaboration across industry, regulators and consumers.
Nicola is the Chief Risk Officer in AMP (previously the Chief Audit Executive). She has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, both domestically and internationally, during which time she has built a deep understanding of regulation, risk, governance and control. Nicola has held various roles in financial services organisations and regulators, including most recently with ANZ as General Manager of Audit for the Wealth business, and at Barclays, HBOS and the Financial Services Authority in the UK. Nicola is also a Past President of the Chartered Institute of Internal Audit in the U.K. and a former Board member of the Global Institute of Internal Audit.
Shendon Ewans is the CEO & Co-founder of Gobbill, an Australian company which specialises in making payments easier and safer for business owners and vulnerable people by reducing the risk of scams and fraud. Gobbill combines digitising invoices, checking for fraud and making payments automatically for its clients. The company is a registered National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider for processing payments and is actively safeguarding its own NDIS participants’ funds from fraud.
Prior to Gobbill, Shendon worked at the Australian Taxation Office, Victoria Police and major banks on ICT projects including data linkage and pattern recognition for preventing and detecting fraud. He has 25 years of experience in business consulting and managing enterprise (ICT) transformations including working at PwC, Arthur Andersen & KPMG.
Simon has over 22 years of Industry Experience. He is an expert in Cyber Security & Cyber Crime Investigations and is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), IAM/RFID expert, insider fraud, biometrics, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, Expert Witness and a first responder to major cyber crisis events.
He has been engaged and appeared as an expert witness in numerous criminal and civil cases to analyse forensic digital evidence from VCAT level up to the High Court; some involving murder, CEM (child exploitation material), drug charges, catfishing, cyber stalking, and other alleged criminal activity where Simon has analysed evidence and given opinion on how well the procedure in the collection of digital evidence was followed by police.
He is also a Social Media Expert, and is experienced and holds certifications in Ethical Hacking, Information Technology Professional, Penetration Testing, Splunk, Palo Alto, CyberArk, IBM B/C, Win32 API, C SQL, Java, Checkpoint Security Master (CCSM), and Google Analytics (GAIQ). He is a full SDLC Enterprise software and systems developer, and developer of business software since 1999.
Steven advises on financial services and fintech, with a particular focus on digital assets regulation and disputes. Steven represents leading financial institutions, fintechs, digital currency exchanges, startups and DeFi projects, and venture capital funds. He has 14 years’ experience as a start-up founder and litigation specialist. Steven has a rare combination of commercial, legal and entrepreneurial skills. He adopts a highly commercial approach and is focused on helping clients to navigate regulatory complexity and achieve commercial outcomes.
Steven has experience with commercial contracts, corporate law, disputes, financial services and cryptocurrency regulation, regulatory investigations, and enforcement. He has advised on fraud investigations, insider trading, market manipulation, cyber frauds and asset recovery, IP theft, mis-selling, governance and directors’ duties, AML/CTF and sanctions issue. His experience includes advising on regulatory investigations involving ASIC as well as the DOJ, CFTC, MAS, HKMA, SFC and the FCA. He has acted on litigation before the UK Supreme Court and in the Hong Kong and Australian Courts. Steven also advises on arbitration and has experience in relation to international arbitration, investment treaty disputes, interim relief and enforcement of arbitral awards.
Steven trained at a Magic Circle law firm in London and worked for one of Australia’s leading disputes practices prior to joining Piper Alderman. Steven also has experience as a start-up founder and previously ran a Delaware incorporated Public Benefit Corporation. Steven is qualified and has practised in Australia, Hong Kong and England & Wales.
Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence
AI, Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics
Build Financial Capability and Bridge the Digital Divide
AML/CFT and TBML Approaches and Policies
Transaction Monitoring Automation & KYC Innovations
Crypto and Digital Currencies
Fraud Prevention & Detection
Risk Management Processes, Policies, and Procedures
Financial Crime Investigation
Job titles invited include VP’s, Heads, Directors and Chiefs across the Banking and Financial Services sector in the following areas:
Technology Innovation & Security: CISO, CIO, CTO, Information Security, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Technology and Risk, Network and Information, Enterprise Architects, Identity and Access Management, IT Audit and Governance, Security Engineer, Security Architect, Technology Risk, Information Risk, Data Privacy
AML: Compliance, Financial Crime, AML/CFT, Client Onboarding, Due Diligence, KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Regulatory, Advanced Analytics, Innovation, Technology, AI/Machine Learning, Investigations, Sanctions, Data Analysts, MLRO, AML Policy/Advisory
Fraud: Fraud – Prevention/Detection/Strategy/Operations, Anti-bribery/Corruption, Financial Crime, Investigations/intelligence, Data, AI/ML, Cyber – fraud/resilience/operations/security, Data Analytics, SAR Analyst – Suspicious Activity Reporting Senior Analyst, Audit, Risk, Claims, Dispute Resolution
The banking sector, including retail, commercial and investment banks, and digital and challenger banks
Insurance companies
Wealth Management, Credit Unions, and all other types of financial services
Fintech
Law Enforcement
Government
Industry Bodies / Regulators
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Colin has recently joined BNY Mellon as Regulatory Product Manager. He is responsible for ensuring that all products within Asset Servicing are compliant with upcoming regulations and serve our client’s needs to meet the regulatory requirements, including MIFID II, GDPR, MMFR.
He represents the company on a number of RegTech Award panels and industry Event Advisory Boards, and helps to co-ordinate the BNY Mellon Tax & Regulatory Client Forum. This industry-leading event includes a number of RegTech panels and the creation of a regular BNY Mellon RegTech Forum.
Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Colin spent 4 years working at Barclays as Industry & Regulatory Engagement Lead for Data Management, working with RegTech and vendor solution providers to assess solutions to meet the upcoming Regulatory challenges. Previously, he was Global Product Manager for Omgeo CTM responsible for developing the product to meet all client and regulatory requirements. He has also spent time at a number of leading Investment Bank institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Nomura, and Goldman Sachs, across a broad range of Data Management, Client Service and project management roles.
Sam is a financial crime prevention professional with over 15 years of practical experience in compliance. Sam holds a number of qualifications and is recognised as a subject matter expert in the field of financial crime.
Sam’s previous work experience includes working as MLRO, Data Protection Officer and CCO and Group Head of AML for various financial institutions, both offshore and in Europe. Sam also worked offshore for several years as the first legal counsel to the financial regulator in Guernsey and subsequently set up the financial crime division, overseeing the examination of a variety of financial institutions. She continues to maintain ongoing engagement with other regulators on financial crime matters.
Sam has extensive training experience in the field of financial crime prevention and corporate governance matters. She has most recently been involved in projects related to FenTech businesses, the use of RegTech to mitigate financial crime and list management relating to the screening of customers and third parties. Sam most recently worked with ACAMS Europe as its AML Director. Sam is recognised by ACAMS as a subject matter expert in sanctions and has co-authored a number of online certificate courses, facilitated working groups on 4/5AMLD in Europe and assistance in the development of white papers. Originally from Montreal, Quebec Canada, Sam holds a Bachelors of Public Administration, Law Degree, qualified as a barrister and solicitor and holds her Masters in Business, specialising in risk management.
Adriana specialises in financial regulatory policy issues covering all Digital and Innovation topics, PSD2, Cyber-Security, Operational Resilience, Data protection, Tax and issues affecting fixed income including securitisation, margin and shadow banking reforms. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Ms. Ennab was a Repo trader and Global Product Manager for Merrill Lynch, Tradition Government Securities and Goldman Sachs in Asia, London and New York. Additionally, she ran various private ventures in Asia and London.
Ms. Ennab holds a BS in Management and Marketing and Finance from New York University and an MBA from Fordham School of Business Management.
Adriana is on the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2018 and shortlisted for the Policy Makers and Regulatory Experts group.
Janthana is the CEO and Founder of Tapoly, the first on-demand insurance platform for the gig economy in Europe, and winner of Insurance Provider of the Year at the British Small Business Awards 2018. She is listed by Forbes as number 6 of the Top 100 Women Founders to watch, and is among the Top Ten Insurtech Female Influencers according to The Insurance Institute. Janthana is a chartered accountant and former internal audit director at top-tier investment banks.
As the Head of Fund Reporting and Regulatory Change, Deon is responsible for reporting fund data to clients, and for building client solutions around European and UK regulatory developments.
Deon believes that asset managers need to focus on cleaning their data and making it available to clients online. Clients want to see the underlying data that drives everything asset managers create for them – and providing this in a transparent and timely way, especially in the regulatory space, will be a winning strategy for any firm. He is also no 3 on the 2019 Empower Yahoo Finance ethnic minority future leaders list. Deon is chair of the LGBT+ Allies network which represents and brings together their LGBT community and allies.
Marie Lundberg is the founder and CEO of Acronym Consulting AB, based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a financial crime specialist with more than two decades of experience within the financial sector, including investment firms, large internet banks, payment service providers, traditional and private banking. Her area of expertise includes anti-bribery and corruption, fraud, anti-money laundering, customer due diligence, sanctions and counter terrorism financing.
Marie is a firm believer of using analytics and the importance of knowing and understanding your data, as well as your customers. Awareness, a solid risk management program and education is in her opinion a few of the keys to combat financial crime.
She has extensive international experience, working mainly in the Nordics and Europe including the UK. She is a founding member and co-chair of the ACAMS Nordics Chapter and a Certified Fraud Examiner by ACFE as well as a public speaker and thought leader in this area.
Jacqui is an international web scientist recognised as one of the 100 most powerful UK entrepreneurs and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science in recognition of her international futurist work.
She is recognised as one of the Top Ten global IoT innovators and an independent industry analyst for the Internet of Things (IoT). She is one of 4 IoT leaders advising the European Commission on their citizen strategy in an IoT enabled Europe.
She is personally recognised as one of the UK’s most influential Women in Tech, one of the 34 IoT Influencers on Twitter, one of the 20 global entrepreneurs to watch, and a UK Smart City Leader. She was shortlisted for a Cyber Security industry award based on her European work and was invited to a speak in Davos on the future of the Cyber Security Industry.
She is globally recognised as a Smart City Tzar, smart cities are the future hubs of democracy in an IoT world. She is a Strategic Advisor to the UK Government on Smart Cities, Cities lead on Digital Built Britain and a Principal UK Expert lead for the British Standards Institute (BSI) international team for Smart Cities and AI.
She is one of the International Smart City experts advising the Chinese Government on their Smart City Programme.