Podcast | Risky Women: Compliance Priorities for 2022

To kick off our 2022 Risky Women Radio podcast series, Kimberley Cole speaks with Senior Risk and Compliance Leaders at Protiviti, Carol Beaumier and Bernadine Reese about financial services industry compliance priorities for 2022.

Carol Beaumier is a Senior Managing Director in Protiviti’s Risk and Compliance practice and oversees the firm’s Asia-Pac Financial Services Practice. Prior to joining Protiviti, Carol was a Partner with Arthur Andersen where she led the Global Regulatory Practice; a founding member of The Secura Group and leader of the firm’s Risk Management practice; and a regulator with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. An experienced consultant with more than thirty years of experience, Carol has extensive experience with numerous regulatory issues that affect multiple industries. She is a frequent author and speaker on regulatory and other risk issues. For the last several years, Carol has been a regular presenter at the Institute of International Bankers’ BSA/AML/OFAC Training Series. She is also a lecturer at the Boston University School of Law for which she has designed and is teaching an anti-money laundering course in the University’s Certificate in Financial Services Compliance programme.

Bernadine Reese is a Managing Director within Protiviti’s Risk & Compliance team in London. She joined Protiviti in 2007 from KPMG’s Regulatory Services practice and has more than 25 years’ experience working with a variety of financial services clients to enhance their business performance by successfully implementing risk, compliance and governance change, and optimising their risk and compliance arrangements. Bernadine has helped a wide variety of financial services firms in diverse areas of risk and compliance including: anti money-laundering and financial crime compliance (sanctions, bribery and corruption, tax evasion fraud), s166 Skilled Persons reports and regulatory investigations, conduct risk and Board effectiveness reviews and governance arrangements. She has assisted clients with understanding and optimising regulatory change and implementing best practice compliance.