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- What are APAC Risk and Control leaders’ priorities in 2025, and what are the most material risks their banks are facing?
- How well are banks managing the evolution and expansion of non-financial risks and are global banks capturing local risks effectively?
- What are the challenges with building new or expanded risks into existing risk management frameworks?
- Does the expanding mandate of risk and control functions globally require better collaboration, enterprise wide, across all 3 lines of defence?
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- How can banks in the region effectively interpret and stay ahead of evolving regulatory requirements while appeasing the different jurisdictions?
- Should global banks be performing surveillance consistently across all local locations? And to what standard?
- How do global banks operating in various APAC jurisdictions navigate the maze of data privacy regulations? And how does this affect their use of Cloud?
- How do banks ensure that they remain sensitive to political tensions when performing surveillance across multiple countries?
- Where jurisdictions are very prescriptive in their surveillance requirements, should banks be allowing decisions to be made at a local level rather than a global?
- Is it possible for the many regulatory authorities to come to an agreement on data sharing?
- What is the divergent regulatory expectation on the management, review, and escalation of false positives?
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- What key factors should firms consider when designing their 1st Line target operating model? How do practitioners foresee this model evolving in the coming years?
- To what extent are banks creating a global golden standard 1st line of defence, or are banks creating a 1st line with regional differences?
- Do 1st Line risk and control functions in APAC have the necessary resources and diverse skill sets to manage the growing scope of non-financial risks?
- How can firms optimize and harmonize their controls, redesigning processes to enhance coverage, efficiency, and effectiveness? Are there any quick wins that banks can adopt to boost efficiency and effectiveness?
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- How do financial and non-financial risks intersect and influence each other within banks, and what are the potential impacts of non-financial risks on financial risk management, and vice versa?
- How can regional jurisdictions develop and implement integrated risk management frameworks for their businesses that effectively address both financial and non-financial risks?
- How do regulatory requirements and expectations across regions address the marriage of financial and non-financial risks? Are there any opportunities in managing both risk types simultaneously?
- How should governance structures and board oversight be strengthened to ensure a comprehensive approach to managing the interconnectedness of financial and non-financial risks?
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- Language barriers are a significant challenge when it comes to effective comms surveillance. How do banks justify their current stance on the set of languages they surveil?
- Should decision making around strategic comms tools and what the need really is be made locally rather than globally?
- Given the diverse linguistic landscape of the region with multiple languages and dialects, when alertsare generated how important is human review?
- With the bilingual aspect of employees in the APAC region, can banks rely on technology for theidentification of multi-languages and dialects, as well as spacing issues when performing e-comms surveillance? And how can AI-driven language capabilities be best used?
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- To what extent does the evolving risk landscape necessitate a re-evaluation of the controls frameworks? Are banks being given the necessary resources to create bespoke control frameworks across different regions?
- What are the key considerations in determining control efficiency and how are banks reporting on control? Does this differ from APAC to Europe?
- What are the key enablers of the next generation control framework, and how do they contribute to achieving the vision of controls transformation?
- How can organisations leverage technology and data to support their controls environment and enhance risk management capabilities, particularly in the context of automation and AI?
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- How can organisations effectively assess and manage the risks associated with third and fourth parties in APAC? Do expectations change dependent on regional jurisdictions?
- As supply becomes more concentrated on a series of important business services and fintech’s, how are banks managing that concentration risk?
- How can organisations leverage technology, data analytics, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance their third-party risk management and operational resilience capabilities?
- What strategies can firms adopt to enhance visibility and oversight of fourth-party risks, given the challenges of indirect relationships and limited control over sub-contractors?
- Given the increasing US and EMEA focus on third party risk management, how are teams in APAC balancing cost efficiency with the need for robust due diligence and ongoing monitoring of third- and fourth-party vendors?
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- To what extent has the proliferation of trading venues across the APAC region increased the complexity and depth of coverage needed by surveillance programmes?
- How can surveillance functions ensure that they have a completeness of data across all venues?
- How can machine learning (ML) algorithms powered by AI help trade surveillance systems learn and adapt to changing market conditions, identifying potential market abuse more accurately and quickly?
- How can banks streamline the burden on sales and trading businesses created by false positives?
- How should banks best leverage vendor innovation and integrate external technology with legacy systems?
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- What are the greatest tensions between regulatory wishes and practical realities for firms’ management of risk across the 3 lines of defence?
- What tools can best help firms to make their risk management more effective? Should these tools be built to understand the nuances of doing business in APAC?
- With teams being split out across regions, what opportunities are there for better collaboration across the 3 Lines of Defence?
- To what extent does having an effective risk culture help effect risk management? How does it practically impact risk management?
- Compared with today, in 5 years’ time what will be different in firms’ approaches to risk and control management?
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- What are the biggest challenges facing effective fraud prevention strategies in APAC? How can banks navigate cross-border investigations to prevent global bad actors?
- What are the most effective cross-regional strategies for detecting and preventing fraud within financial institutions?
- How can banks leverage data analytics and technology to enhance their fraud detection capabilities?
- What lessons can be learned from successful cross-jurisdiction case studies of fraud detection and prevention?
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- How can artificial intelligence (AI) be effectively integrated into risk management and control functions, and what are the potential benefits and challenges banks face in adopting AI-driven solutions?
- Are data privacy and security concerns, particularly on the Chinese mainland impeding banks’ ability to truly engage in meaningful and effective innovation projects?
- With growing pressures to innovate, how can banks balance the need for innovation in risk and controls with the demands of managing business-as-usual (BAU) operations? Is there a risk of resource constraints impacting one over the other?
- What does the future hold for risk and controls in banking? How will emerging technologies and evolving regulatory expectations shape the next generation of control frameworks?
- How can banks foster a culture of innovation within their risk and control teams, ensuring that they stay ahead of emerging risks while maintaining robust oversight and compliance? What practical steps can be taken to drive innovation in these areas
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