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8:20am
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Registration
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9:00am
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Chairman's opening remarks
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9:10am
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Keynote address: Too Fast, Too Furious – Managing OR in High-Frequency Trading (HFT) environments
- What do risk managers need to know about managing OR in high-frequency trading (HFT) environments?
- Preventing OR using sophisticated and time-critical technology
- To what extent are OR managers involved in the development of the HFT as more firms across the region adopt this strategy?
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9:50am
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Panel discussion: Debating RCSAs
- Does subjectivity kill or hamper the value and effectiveness of RCSAs?
- Ensuring true, committed buy-in from management: what checks and balances, along with approval processes need to be enhanced in the development stage?
- Do they care: can you effectively communicate RCSA information to business-lines and get their buy-in and feedback?
- In ensuring consistency across multiple jurisdictions impossible?
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10:40am
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Morning coffee break
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11:10am
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Presentation: Tech-Talk - developing a technology risk framework
- Understanding how Technology exposes a bank to strategic, operational and reputational risks
- BCBS 195 as a guideline to developing a technology risk framework: what does this framework look like?
- What are the limits of technology risk? What should it include?
- How can it be quantified?
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11:50am
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Presentation: Protecting against data loss – generating an effective DLP (Data Loss Protection) policy
- Easier to access data and easier to lose data: the costs of loss is higher than ever before
- Identifying what data needs to be protected vs. what doesn’t
- Analysing how data is currently lost in order to better understand channels which to protect
- What regulations are in place to govern specific data types which need to possess extra security?
- How do firms do it, especially in light of the evolving ‘share’ culture of social media?
- Testing and implementation; communication and enterprise-wide implementation
- Future-proofing
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12:30pm
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Lunch
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1:50pm
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Panel discussion: Whistle-blowers - welcome or not?
- Developing a sound whistle-blowing strategy, protecting anonymity
- Setting a top-down tone communicating that management is serious about zero-tolerance
- Ensuring that channels of communication to top-level management are accessible for potential whistle-blowing incidents
- Instilling a whistle-blowing culture via training
- Protecting against abuse: treating the accuser and accused fairly
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2:40pm
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Presentation: Subjective scenarios – evaluating the reliability and effectiveness of Scenario Analysis
- Is using a subjective methodology reliable?
- Should it be used for validation purposes only?
- Finding the right mix between scenario analysis and internal/external data
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3:10pm
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Afternoon coffee break
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3:40pm
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Presentation: The nation frustration – Overcoming obstacles of varying cultural differences between offices
- How does national culture affect a bank’s operational risk?
- Risk appetite
- Propensity to commit fraud
- Managing the cultural variances between offices
- The concept of flexibility
- Tone at the top – how corrupt is the country?
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4:10pm
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Panel discussion: Compliance v operational risk: where do the boundaries touch?
- Overcoming the polarization of mindsets to achieve common goals
- Clearly defining and delineating the role of each – is the risk manager’s role a leadership function and the compliance manager’s role assurance?
- Where do the respective functions overlap? How do you overcome or manage the dreaded ‘turf war?’
- Should they be kept separate, in turn creating more ‘silos’?
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5:00pm
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Closing remarks
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5:10pm
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End of conference
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