Following the Rules

Andreas Dombret, former member of the ECB’s supervisory board, on the new financial order set to follow the Ukraine war

Today’s guests details how the ongoing war in Ukraine could fundamentally change the established business models and regulatory policy-making in Western financial markets, lays out the defence for central banks in their response to the inflationary scenarios that the outbreak of war has contributed to and sounds the alarm on the market risks that policymakers are forced to ignore whilst they are in crisis mode.
Andreas Dombret is the former vice-chairman of Bank of America’s Global Investment Banking unit in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. More recently, he has been a member of the executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, with Banking Supervision, and Risk Control among his responsibilities. He has also been a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism of the European Central Bank and spent eight years on the board of Basel-based Bank for International Settlements.

Special episode: Smarsh’s Brandon Carl and Shaun Hurst on finance firms’ race to monitor staff effectively and ethically

Smarsh is a rapidly-growing technology firm providing financial services companies with the tools to capture, store, and monitor their communications.
Today’s guests explain how the world’s largest companies are tracking staff behaviour and the alternative revenue-generating uses for the data collected as a result, outline the ethical guidelines they believe finance bosses should follow when monitoring employee communications, and detail finance firms’ efforts to monitor home-workers’ professional lives without encroaching too greatly into their personal space.
Brandon Carl leads the commercial strategy for large-scale corporates as executive vice president in product strategy at Smarsh. Shaun Hurst is Smarsh’s principal regulatory advisor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

AFME’s Louise Rodger on the compliance officer of the future

Today’s guests explains how financial services firms can best prepare now for the industry’s rapidly-changing compliance requirements, and outlines the skills compliance officers will need to remain relevant in the back office of the future.
Louise Rodger is the director in the compliance and policy division at trade body the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, or AFME, where she lobbies policymakers for the interests of compliance professionals at banks and brokers in UK and Europe

Barclay Simpson’s Tom Boulderstone on recruitment challenges in compliance and how to navigate them

Today’s guest outlines why some of the largest financial services firms in London risk serious knowledge gaps in the 'engine rooms' of their compliance teams and reveals the skills most in demand as recruitment for compliance roles reaches record highs.
Tom Boulderstone manages the compliance & financial crime team at headhunter Barclay Simpson, where he specialises in placing compliance professionals within banks, asset managers, hedge funds and private equity firms.

EY’s Chris Woolard on ESG, crypto and the future for UK fintechs

Today’s guest lays out the case for more concrete rules around ESG investment, and for the UK government to deliver on the regulatory commitments it has made to bolster the UK market for fintechs.
Chris Woolard helped to shape the UK regulatory landscape as the former interim CEO of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority before moving to EY where he now advises financial services leaders, central banks and governments on financial regulation as a partner and chairman of EY’s Global Regulatory Network.

Trailer: Following the Rules

Lucy McNulty introduces a new podcast for those seeking insight into the rules shaping UK and EU financial services and the people responsible for understanding and implementing them.