3 Sep 2025 · 24 min
In this episode, CRTA Board member Rob Baldassare speaks with Charles, Gregory, Head of Surveillance and Financial Crime at member firm Data Intellect. In this conversation they discuss the intersection between technical advancement and regulatory oversight and how to balance innovation with ethical standards.
15 Jan 2025 · 53 min
Over the last decade Canadian Banks have spent millions introducing new technology and strengthening compliance practices, yet obstacles remain. Criminals continue to find ways into the Canadian financial system. Estimates of so-called ‘snow washing’ suggest that $45billion to $113billion of dirty money is laundered in Canada each year.8 Recent FINTRA fines and undisclosed fines amongst tier one banks shows gaps in risk controls. In this session we’ll discuss: · The role of the risk assessment and ideal framework when risks are continually evolving. · Ongoing monitoring techniques – and how…
3 Jul 2024 · 25 min
Host Loren Schwartz speaks with Mark Sutera, VP of Enterprise Sales at Seclore about data protection. Listen as they explore the field of data security, trends in data threats, what firms can and should be doing about it and innovation in this space
6 May 2024 · 26 min
In this podcast, host Matthew Ayearst speaks with Katerina Kindyni, Financial Services Sustainability Practice Lead, at EY Canada. Listen as they discuss their views on the impact of recent OSFI B-15 guideline and what financial institutions need to do to get ahead. - which includes EY's newly launched stress testing solution!
29 Nov 2023 · 27 min
In our latest episode of RegTech Roundup - Financial Crimes edition, we delve into the challenges surrounding the collection of beneficial ownership data through centrally administered registries. Joining our host, Charlene Sebastian, in the discussion are Jennifer Arnold, Co-Founder & CEO of Minerva, and Matthew Van Buskirk, Co-Founder & CEO Regulatory, Hummingbird RegTech. While centrally administered registries have the potential to enhance the overall data ecosystem, progress in this area has been slow. Data accuracy, currency, verifiability, privacy concerns, and the high cost of…
25 Oct 2023 · 39 min
Trade surveillance is a critical component of today's financial world, where regulations are ever-evolving. It's not just about keeping an eye on trades; it's about ensuring compliance, detecting anomalies, and mitigating risks effectively. Our guest, Martina Rejsjo, Head of Product Strategy at Eventus , shares insights into the complex challenges faced in the world of trade surveillance. With the financial industry operating in multi-asset class environments, including equities, options, futures, FX, fixed income, and digital assets, the need for comprehensive solutions is paramount. In a…
3 Sep 2023 · 18 min
In the latest episode of our ESG Series, host Donna Bales speaks with Ajay Jindal, Executive Vice President at Decimal Point Analytics about his recent paper - Canada ESG Review 2023. This paper benchmark's Canada's progress against its global peers - showing a significant divergence between progress in asset management and the real economy.
8 Jun 2023 · 23 min
In this episode we discuss the potential of reducing regulatory burden through the implementation of Machine-Readable Regulation. Machine Readable regulation is not a new concept but there has been renewed interest by the industry due to its potential to enhance compliance and risk management and reduce regulatory burden. In 2016 the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK hosted a Tech Sprint that looked at the whole process of regulatory reporting starting with converting the Handbook into machine-readable text and using this to enable automated advice or personalized filtering. In October…
1 Jun 2023 · 23 min
In our latest podcast in the ESG Series, host Donna Bales speaks with Eugenie Casier GRC Director from Clausematch. In this episode they discuss the elements of a ESG strategy, the importance of a setting a purpose and using it as a foundation for your ESG Program. Clausematch is a global regulatory technology software as service provider. The platform empowers companies to collaborate, create, manage and review different types of compliance documents, in real time, with a complete audit trail and live insights, advanced metadata, AI-powered mapping and tagging, intelligent suggestions and…
8 May 2023 · 28 min
In this episode of RegTech Round-up , host Donna Bales speaks to Gerry Murtagh, co-founder of RegTick . In this episode they discuss best practices and key focus areas to address some of the organizational challenges of developing a successful ESG Program. Gerry shares several techniques that RegTick uses to reduce complexity - such as VMOST to structure a ESG program, Empathy Mapping to understand your stakeholders and an ESG Health Check to test the health of your ESG program. Be sure to tune in to hear more! Regtick is a visually intuitive, cloud-based, Programme Management platform which…
6 May 2023 · 25 min
The financial industry has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, with the accelerated shift to digitized services having a profound impact on the banking landscape. Not only has it changed the way financial institutions operate, but it has also affected anti-money laundering risks and financial crime prevention measures across the enterprise. As a result, there has been a marked shift in focus from traditional risk management practices to enhanced business resilience. This new approach emphasizes the importance of preparing for and quickly adapting to potential disruptions…
11 Apr 2023 · 35 min
In this episode of RegTech Round-up, Charlene Sebastian, Head of Client Success at MinervaAI and strategic advisor to the Canadian RegTech Association (CRTA), talks with Anthony Quinn, Founder and CEO of Arctic Intelligence, a multi-award-winning RegTech firm specializing in software for enterprise-wide audit, compliance, and risk management related to financial crime, about how firms can dramatically simplify the EWRA by maximising their data and using technology to automate the process; to reduce residual risk exposure and be more strategic in the application of enterprise risk controls to…
6 Apr 2023 · 38 min
Money laundering and terrorism financing laws apply to millions of businesses, across 30+ industry sectors, and in over 200 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries. And yet, there is no industry standard on how businesses should apply the risk-based approach (RBA) when developing Enterprise-wide money laundering and terrorism financing risk assessments. In this episode of RegTech Round-up, Charlene Sebastian, Head of Client Success at MinervaAI and strategic advisor to the Canadian RegTech Association (CRTA), talks with Anthony Quinn, Founder and CEO of Arctic Intelligence, a…
25 Mar 2023 · 34 min
March is Fraud Prevention month! Digital Identification Verification (IDV) technologies play a critical role in preventing and detecting identity fraud. Through document verification and liveness checks, IDV solutions can be used to address a number of regulatory identification and know your customer requirements. While embraced by many digital banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, as part of a frictionless customer on-boarding experience and to automate key anti-money laundering (AML) requirements; traditional banking, wealth management services and credit unions have been slower to implement…
26 Feb 2023 · 26 min
In this episode of ESG Insights, host Donna Bales, speaks with Johnny Mattimore, Global Head of Risk and Sustainable Finance at First Derivatives. We look at ESG from a risk lens - examining regulatory drivers, the maturity of capital market participants in understanding ESG exposures and how we can avoid past mistakes by using open source and proxy data and collaborative efforts for baseline data. Johnny shares First Derivatives efforts in establishing a technology cohort to work on an open source sustainable finance taxonomy - to create open source data models of regulations and have them…
23 Feb 2023 · 31 min
The integration of digital assets into our global financial system continues to raise many questions. Has crypto hit the mainstream? If so, what regulations should apply? Should characteristics of the underlying technology play a role in how it’s regulated? And can crypto ever be truly regulated at all? In this episode, Charlene Sebastian Head of Client Success at MinervaAI and Strategic Advisor with the CRTA, talks with Tim Ward, Head of Product at CUBE a global regulatory insights firm based in the United Kingdom about their latest report “Cryptopia: Regulation and Crypto on a Cliff Edge”…
7 Feb 2023 · 24 min
In this episode, host Paul McRorie speaks with Blythe Barber Head of Business Development, Americas from Droit and Loren Schwartz, Senior Director of Regulatory Technology from CIBC. They discuss the merits of buying versus building in house and how API's have introduced opportunities to integrate but they do not come without challenges.
18 Sep 2022 · 28 min
In this episode our host, Matt Fowler, speaks with Michael Barton from Invest Northern Ireland and Paul Childerhose (CRTA Board Member and Membership Engagement lead) about the opportunities that exist for firms large and small to leverage the growing tech and data talent in and around Belfast. With a growing need to manage common regulatory challenges Invest Northern Ireland, and the CRTA, are able to help firms find the right services, solutions and talent. As the flow of regulation, and often innovation, moves across Europe towards North America hear how you can find the right support for…
7 Aug 2022 · 17 min
In this episode, host Myron Mallia-Dare speaks with Abishek Gupta from Sutra Management Consulting. Sutra Management Consulting is a analytics driven advisory focusing on assisting their clients deploy analytic and AI solutions. In this inspiring episode Abishek explains how they recognized the gap of knowledge at the operational level at organizations trying to deploy AI and how they seized this opportunity early in Asia. Now expanding into North America, Abishek shares their company journey and some of the key differences of working in Asia versus North America.
3 Aug 2022 · 26 min
In this episode host Myron Mallia-Dare speaks with Tolga Kurt, Managing Partner of H3M Analytics. H3M is a AI-based AML software for KYC, AL and Sanctions. Now on his second start-up Tolga walks us through his motivation for starting H3M in 2018 - and his desire to use AI for the greater good and describes how the software uses active learning and ‘human-in-the loop’ to improve AML compliance to continually improve models and detection
8 Jun 2022 · 27 min
In this episode our host Myron Milla-Dare speaks with Emmanuel (Manny) Cohen, CEO and Founder of Armadillo Group. Manny talks through his 25 year journey building his company - digging into his own pockets for funding - overcoming the skeptics and being a leader in bringing new tools and techniques into the KYC and due diligence process. Armadillo Hub, is a scalable, cloud–based, end-to-end automated RegTech platform, giving global regulated businesses the tools to conduct the appropriate background checks on corporate and private clients. The platform leverages cloud and robotic process…
10 Mar 2022 · 27 min
In this episode host Paul McRorie speaks with Ally Karmali, Associate Partner and Practice Lead in IBM Sustainability, Risk and Compliance and Martijn Groot, VP Marketing and Strategy, Alveo Technology. With Martijn providing a European perspective and Ally a North American perspective, they discuss the evolving regulatory and standards landscape and common data challenges such as the availability and usability of data. They provide their views on how banks are responding to mandatory and voluntary disclosure requirements and how to get ahead. Ally sets up a future podcast by discussing…
25 Feb 2022 · 24 min
In this episode, host Paul McRorie speaks with Parham Nasser i, VP Regulatory Strategy and Partnerships at InvestorCOM and Noel Sequiera, Manager, Membership Intake & Business Conduct Compliance at IIROC. Noel and Parham discuss the changing landscape in wealth management. They discuss some of the new trends such as greater customization, new product impact, and the use of gamification tools, the role of the industry and the regulators in educating investors and how they see the wealth industry evolving.
26 Jan 2022 · 30 min
In this podcast Paul McRorie speaks with Torstein Braaten, Head of Regulatory Affairs & CCO, Bitbuy and Joe Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus Systems. Listen as they explore regulation and market structure nuances between traditional markets and crypto or digital assets. They dig into the differences but also highlight the many similarities and discuss the techniques and tools used to effectively surveil this evolving market segment.
2 Nov 2021 · 23 min
In this episode Myron Mallia-Dare speaks with Jennifer Arnold, Co-founder of Minerva.ai. MinervaAI is a RegTech platform using deep learning and automation to execute enhanced due diligence and AML investigations in under 45 seconds.
13 Sep 2021 · 31 min
Ted Hershey, Senior Vice President, Solution Services at DFIN Andrew Obee- President, Ficanex Technology Inc sit down with host Myron Mallia -Dare to discuss how they have re-invented their businesses in a Digital Age... You'll hear how DFIN shifted from print to digital and how Ficanex moved from an ATM cash services business to a platform business (their Tunnel Platform) ripe for Open Banking. Great discussion on the what, why and how they transformed their businesses.
29 Aug 2021 · 26 min
In this episode Myron Mallia-Dare speaks with Noelle Ibrahim, Industry Consultant, Quantum Computing from IBM and Philip LaFrance, Standards Manager from ISARA and take a deep-dive into some of the themes covered in our introductory podcast "Quantum Computing 101" Noelle and Philip delve into a number of user cases and share their views on Quantum Readiness within financial institutions and the Canadian Regulators Listen as Noelle shares relevant user cases for Financial Crimes and credit and Philip opines on the impact of Quantum on cryptography.
22 Aug 2021 · 33 min
In this episode Myron Mallia-Dare speaks with Alexon Bell , Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Quantexa. Quantexa is a Decision Intelligence Company that helps organizations drive better decisions and surface hidden risks by bringing contextual insights from data into visual form. Well- recognized within the Financial Crimes area for its transformational approach to KYC management, Quantexa also provides solutions for customer intelligence and credit risk. In this insightful talk, Alexon shares their company journey and the challenges and triumphs along the way.
28 Jul 2021 · 30 min
In this podcast Paul McRorie speaks with two industry experts: Brian Gelfand, Senior Advisor and Consultant at Ernst and Young and Eric Richmond, Chief Operating Officer and VP of Legal at Coinsquare . In this episode we talk about Crypto and the Age of Digital Disruption - you will hear of the convergence of the legacy and the novel. Listen along as we cover the basics and set the stage for this brave new world.
1 Jul 2021 · 27 min
In this episode Myron Mallia-Dare speaks with Mark Rowan , Founder and CEO of Data Sentinel. Data Sentinel is a data trust and compliance platform that helps businesses persistently manage their data privacy, compliance, governance and data quality in real-time. The focus of Data Sentinel is to help organizations automate the management of data assets that are deemed to be sensitive within organizations so that they can develop trust in their data and in the processes that they're following, and ultimately trust in the outcomes they want to achieve.
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