Derek Johnston has spent 35 years in financial services, most of it in risk management across all three lines of defence. His view? The CRO's job isn't to say no. It's to say yes, but.

In this conversation with Claire Rees, Regulatory Financial Crime Specialist at ThirdEye, Johnston shares what he's learned about building risk-aware cultures, choosing AI projects with purpose, and preparing teams for threats that keep changing.

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Effective risk management and excellent customer outcomes aren’t mutually exclusive—they depend on each other.

That’s the approach Vivian Valbuena has refined over 25 years working across the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, and now New Zealand as General Manager of Risk at Fisher Funds.

In a recent conversation with Hamish Shaw, General Manager at ThirdEye, Valbuena shared her thoughts on fraud prevention, customer experience, and leading a risk function at one of New Zealand’s largest wealth managers, serving more than half a million customers.

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#RiskManagement #CustomerExperience #FraudPrevention #WealthManagement #FinancialCrime

How do you lead a risk function when criminals move faster than committees?

Bob Liang, Senior Risk Executive, shares what he's learned across a career spanning corporate regulation, payments law, and fintech risk leadership.

In this conversation with ThirdEye's Hamish Shaw, he explains why risk should be an enabler rather than an obstacle, how to build genuine partnerships with regulators, and why the detail-oriented mindset that builds great compliance careers can become a blind spot at the executive level.

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