The Compliance Files

Season 3 - Episode 4: The Career Landscape in Compliance

If you are looking for some direction in your career, considering a change, are a recent graduate starting out or just want to see what the career landscape in compliance looks like, this podcast will be a real inspiration to you. The latest employment outlook survey from ManpowerGroup, which is based on responses from more than 400 employers across Ireland, found that employers in banking, finance, and insurance plan to expand their headcount by 32%. In the fourth episode of the Compliance Files Robert Farrell, a member of the Compliance Institute Council, a Digital Transformation lecturer, trainer and speaker talks to Dearbhla Bayle, Head of Compliance, Corporate Banking & Markets at Bank of Ireland and Greg Rimell Financial Services Advisory Manager at Grant Thornton Ireland about their career journeys, the benefits of a compliance career, the challenges and opportunities for compliance professionals and what will the compliance function need for the future?

Season 3 - Episode 3: Career Management

What are your Career Anchors? The third episode of the Compliance Files podcast series is on the topic of Career Management and is hosted by Robert Farrell, a member of the Compliance Institute Council, a Digital Transformation lecturer, trainer and speaker. Our guest is Eimear Barry, a psychologist, lecturer and consultant on leadership and workplace wellbeing.

The goal of career management and planning is to produce the desired results for our careers that impact our lives in a positive way. Career management allows us to prepare and maintain a degree of control over the expected outcomes and means that you are the one who decides what you want to do in your professional life. In our professional lives, career management is necessary if we are to achieve our professional and personal goals.

Eimear offers insights into why does your Career Management matter? What are your career anchors? When to start your career plan and how to build it and how to find out what motivates you in your career. Eimear also recommends what steps to take if you are feeling stuck in your career.

Season 3 - Episode 2: Sustainable Finance & ESG

In the second episode of the third season of The Compliance Files, Kathy Jacobs, former Compliance Institute President speaks to Laura Wadding, a partner in Deloitte’s risk advisory practice, with over 25 year's experience in financial services.  

Laura leads the firm’s sustainability practice, helping firms to develop their ESG strategies, comply with applicable regulatory and reporting requirements, and to develop sustainable finance products and practices. She currently sits on the board of Chapter Zero Ireland and on the advisory council of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society.

Laura will be discussing the topics of what is ESG, what is Sustainability Finance and what do the financial sector need to do to achieve the climate targets of 2030 and 2050

Season 3 - Episode 1: Culture & Ethics

In the first episode of the third season of The Compliance Files, Kathy Jacobs, former Compliance Institute President, speaks to Dr Alan Kearns, Assistant Professor of Ethics at Dublin City University on the topic of Culture and Ethics.

The prevailing wisdom for the last number of decades has been that the objective of enterprises is the maximization of shareholder value and to make returns to shareholders. This, however, has not made for a reliable or even successful guide for behavior and decision making by boards and managers, and in the financial services context falls below the standard expected with the emergence of conduct risk.  In addition, the ESG agenda introduces extra complexity and a more ethical dimension to corporate decisions.

Dr Alan Kearns will be discussing the topics of ethics, business ethics and culture from the perspective of an academic, whose research and teaching is d

Season 2 - Episode 10: Marketing & Compliance: Challenges and Key Data Protection Trends for 2022

Marketing is a key process regulated by data protection and marketers are one of the main users of personal data in any organisation. Direct marketing has been regulated in a number of guises for many years and the law and regulation has been subject to constant development and clarification. There are a range of penalties for non-compliance of marketing data protection breaches, and the potential for brand and reputational damage is significant. Kathy Jacobs, former Compliance Institute President, speaks to Steven Roberts, Head of Marketing in Griffith College, on marketing rules, challenges for marketers in the context of GDPR and regulation, and key data protection developments that compliance professionals/DPOs should look out for in 2022.

Season 2 - Episode 9: 20 Years of Collaboration

At the core of Compliance Institute’s mission is to educate its members to ensure they have the skills required to undertake their roles in a professional and effective manner. From the beginning, 20 years ago, the Compliance Institute’s partner in the delivery of its programme of education has been the IOB, formerly known as the Institute of Banking.  In the latest episode of the Compliance Files podcast series, Kathy Jacobs, former President of Compliance Institute speaks to Mary O’Dea, Chief Executive of IOB as part of our 20th anniversary series, on the topics of career development, education, leadership, challenges and priorities for the future.

Season 2 - Episode 8: Safeguarding: Origins, Challenges & Upcoming Developments

Safeguarding is the process by which regulated firms providing payment services protect customer funds.  The purpose is to ensure that funds are always ring-fenced such as in the liquidation of a firm to ensure customer funds are not co-mingled with operational funds and claims of customers will be met in priority.  Safeguarding is subject to stringent legal requirements compelling firms not just to safeguard customers funds but to ensure controls around safeguarding are robust. Kathy Jacobs, former Compliance Institute President, speaks to Alison Donnelly, Director in fscom and Russell Burke, an independent payments consultant, on the origins, challenges and upcoming developments in safeguarding.

Season 2 - Episode 7: The Central Bank of Ireland’s Dear CEO Letter to Payments & E Money Firms

On 9^th December 2021, Mary-Elizabeth Mc Munn, Director of Credit Institutions Supervision at the Central Bank of Ireland and a previous guest on the Compliance Files podcast, issued a letter to the CEO’s of payments and e-money firms, setting out the Central Bank’s regulatory expectations, and requiring an attestation.

Kathy Jacobs, former Compliance Institute President, speaks to Alison Donnelly, Director in fscom and is a payments policy expert with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the payments regulatory landscape, and Russell Burke, an independent payments consultant, and with a combination of extensive regulatory and strategic experience, is one of Ireland’s leading payments specialists with over forty years’ experience with the Central Bank of Ireland, the Irish Payments Services Organisation (IPSO) and Bank of Ireland.

20th Anniversary Special

The Voice of the Compliance Institute - In November 2002, at a meeting in Irish Life offices in Abbey Street, over 80 compliance officers gathered and began the process that led to the establishment of the ACOI.  We are now celebrating Our 20th anniversary. In this episode of “The Voice of the Compliance Institute” series we are delighted to have one of the founding members and indeed the founding president,  Niall Gallagher speak with Compliance Institute President, Kathy Jacobs. Niall gives his insight into the founding vision, what the challenges were and his hopes for the future of the profession.

Season 2 - Episode 5: Refinitiv’s Report

Kathy Jacobs, ACOI President, speaks with Charles Minutella, Global Head of Customer and Third-Party Risk Intelligence at Refinitiv, about Refinitiv’s report which has been recently published into the changing risk landscape. Each year Refinitiv conducts independent surveys looking at different aspects of customer and third-party risk. Their reports have looked at financial crime through its impact on companies, society and the environment. This year's report looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Kathy and Charles discuss the findings of the report.

You can find Refinitiv's Global Risk and Compliance report here.