Addressing compliance and supporting risk management with technology and data
Operating in the financial services sector means you need to address the volume of regulation and its pace of change, and you need robust solutions to manage risk. During this event, we will consider how RegTech solutions can address this.
Our panelists will discuss:
- How RegTech can support compliance and risk management
- What are the challenges in deploying RegTech?
- What is the role of Regulators in supporting RegTech?
- What is the future of RegTech innovation?
Confirmed Speakers
Yvonne Dunne, Partner, Pinsent Masons
Yvonne is a Partner who leads the Pinsent Masons financial services technology practice. She specialises in advising on outsourcing, systems development and integration and IT procurement. Yvonne also advises on complex projects which combine technology and the regulatory environment in which financial services clients operate. She is the firm’s board representative with Fintech Scotland.
Devraj Basu, Senior Lecturer Financial Services, Strathclyde Business School and Interim Director at the University of Strathclyde Centre for Financial Regulation & Innovation
Devraj Basu is Senior Lecturer in Finance in the Accounting and Finance department at Strathclyde Business School. His area of academic research is financial markets, covering equity markets, commodity markets and alternative investments. He is actively involved in RegTech having set up the RegTech Forum which brings together industry, academia and government both within Scotland and internationally. The goal of the RegTech Forum is to help understand the fast moving RegTech landscape and how Scotland and the UK can position themselves to become leading global players. He has helped design Strathclyde’s MSc in Financial Technology, the UK’s first master’s program in Fintech.
Gordon McHarg, Chief Executive Office, Autorek
Gordon co-founded AutoRek in 1994 and has served as CEO since 1998. Gordon has guided the company from its early days as a bespoke software development services provider through to its current position as a leading provider of enterprise financial controls and reconciliation solutions to the global financial service sector.
His client experience is extensive and includes international work for IBM in the US, Renaissance Capital in Russia and several global clients including Barclays, JP Morgan and BUPA. He studied Computing Science at West of Scotland University, graduating in 1989.
Other Organizers
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Ian Davey
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Email
ian@bdm-media.co.uk
Speakers
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Devraj BasuSenior Lecturer & Interim Director - Strathclyde Business SchoolDevraj Basu is Senior Lecturer in Finance in the Accounting and Finance department at Strathclyde Business School. His area of academic research is financial markets, covering equity markets, commodity markets and alternative investments. He is actively involved in RegTech having set up the RegTech Forum which brings together industry, academia and government both within Scotland and internationally. The goal of the RegTech Forum is to help understand the fast moving RegTech landscape and how Scotland and the UK can position themselves to become leading global players. He has helped design Strathclyde’s MSc in Financial Technology, the UK’s first master’s program in Fintech.
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Gordon McHargChief Executive Office, AutorekGordon co-founded AutoRek in 1994 and has served as CEO since 1998. Gordon has guided the company from its early days as a bespoke software development services provider through to its current position as a leading provider of enterprise financial controls and reconciliation solutions to the global financial service sector.
His client experience is extensive and includes international work for IBM in the US, Renaissance Capital in Russia and several global clients including Barclays, JP Morgan and BUPA. He studied Computing Science at West of Scotland University, graduating in 1989. -
Yvonne DunnPartner, Pinsent MasonsYvonne is a Partner who leads the Pinsent Masons financial services technology practice. She specialises in advising on outsourcing, systems development and integration and IT procurement. Yvonne also leads our FinTech practice and advises on complex projects which combine technology and the regulatory environment in which financial services clients operate. Yvonne leads several of our TMT and outsourcing relationships with major banking and insurance clients and regularly speaks and writes on TMT and outsourcing issues specific to the financial services sector. She is the firm’s board representative on Fintech Scotland.
