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Regulatory RamblingsReflections from a former Singapore regulator on virtual assetsEp 55 with Angela Ang, Senior Policy Advisor, TRM LabsAngela Ang is the Senior Policy Advisor at TRM Labs, a global blockchain intelligence company, and a former regulator at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Having spent over a decade at MAS, she held the role of Deputy Director in charge of licensing payments and crypto service providers. Angela has also been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice for Finance in Asia for her leadership in digital asset developments.In this episode, Angela reflects on her journey from growing up in Singapore to her education...
2024-10-091h 53
Regulatory RamblingsDefeating Money Laundering with Rational Thinking, Not Compliance Red-FlagsEp 48 with Dr. Mariola Marzouk (Vortex Risk Ltd.)In this episode of Regulatory Ramblings, Dr. Mariola Marzouk, an AML expert who has co-founded Vortex Risk Ltd., shares her insights on trade-based money laundering (TBML), and her philosophy on financial crime prevention. She talks about her approach to leveraging RegTech, the importance of human judgment in AML, and her critique of the global financial regulatory landscape. She also discusses regulatory compliance technologies for their failure to effectively combat money laundering and argues that despite claims of innovation and disruption, these technologies focus more on regulatory adherence than understanding t...
2024-07-031h 19
Regulatory RamblingsGeneration Z has little say in the financial infrastructure that will govern future generationsAt the heart of Dr. Bryane Michael’s conversation with Regulatory Ramblings host Ajay Shamdasani is whether FinTech can help solve the social, financial, and economic problems previous generations like the Baby Boomers contributed to. They discuss whether Gen-Z's potentially decentralized world of finance will look radically different from ours. Gen-Zers and now Gen Alpha will grow up in a world designed and run almost exclusively by baby boomers. The DBS power outage was supposedly partly caused by a 'missing generation' unable to take charge during the crisis. Why have huge, octogenarian, organizational men-created lumbering bureaucracies that Fin...
2023-12-201h 15
Regulatory RamblingsInsights on Financial Crime with Michael HellerMichael Heller, VP, Head of Financial Crime Proposition at Dow Jones Risk & ResearchBased in Los Angeles and having been with Dow Jones for a decade, Michael Heller is currently responsible for corporate strategy and go-to-market, globally, for the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) business. He draws from a background as an entrepreneur, attorney, sales executive, and advisor to ensure clients building efficient compliance and risk management programs leverage the right data and technology. Michael's career has been focused on bringing transparency to global business. After law school, he worked as a consultant with the Business...
2023-11-221h 02
Regulatory RamblingsAnti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Compliance in IndiaEpisode 26 With Abhishek Bali, CEO and Co-Founder of ZIGRAMAs the CEO and Co-founder of ZIGRAM, Abhishek Bali has over 15 years of expertise in Anti Money Laundering (AML), Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), data assets and third-party risk. Abhishek has worked on engagements and initiatives across the world, collaborating with organizations like KPMG, BMR Advisors, Dun & Bradstreet, and Axis Bank. He leads various business initiatives and data solutions that leverage machine learning, artificial intelligence, data assets and deep technology applications to solve real-world problems in the field of risk. Products and technologies developed by him are...
2023-08-231h 14
Regulatory RamblingsUrszula McCormack (2): Hong Kong's Digital Asset Compliance ChallengesPart 2 of "Hong Kong's Digital Asset Compliance Challenges" continues with Urszula McCormack in a range of topics, from CBDCs to the degree of privacy of digital asset functions, cross border payments to Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern countries adopting more robust systems, RegTech and more!Questions addressed in this interview include:What are thoughts on cryptocurrencies and digital assets, and what should legal and compliance professionals understand about them? Older compliance and legal people talk about how compliance, governance, and risk management, while related, are not the same thing. Specifically, they cl...
2022-09-1541 min