Risky Women Podcast | Adoption of AI to Support Second-Line Functions

Jackie Sanz, a Protiviti managing director in the Risk & Compliance solution, hosts Risky Women Radio, featuring Naomi Bartlett and Natasha Anzik discussing AI’s role in risk management. Naomi, from IGM Financial, highlights the challenges of balancing regulatory changes, team development and AI adoption. Natasha, from Wealthsimple, emphasizes the need for speed, stakeholder trust and adaptability. Both discuss AI’s impact on customer support, financial advising and compliance, including AML and privacy. They emphasize the importance of governance, risk-averse strategies, and leveraging AI for thematic analysis and automation to enhance efficiency and risk management.

Naomi Andjelic Bartlett is senior vice president, chief compliance officer, chief privacy officer and chief AML officer for IGM Financial Inc., responsible for the overall compliance program across the wealth-management, asset-management and enterprise-compliance functions for the IGM group of companies. Naomi brings extensive legal and compliance experience both in private practice and in the financial services industry.  She previously held the position of vice president of compliance, Canadian wealth distribution, with Scotiabank, where she was responsible for the development and oversight of the compliance risk management programs for several businesses within Canadian Wealth Distribution, including responsibilities as chief compliance officer for investment-dealer full service and order execution-only, trust, insurance-agency, investment fund manager and portfolio-management businesses.

Natasha Anzik is the legal director of privacy at Wealthsimple, advising the company on privacy and data regulatory matters. Based in Toronto, she leads the legal-privacy function and provides expertise related to data use and ownership, privacy compliance, anti-spam, and artificial intelligence. She works closely with Wealthsimple’s leadership to advise on privacy and policy issues and developments that impact Wealthsimple’s business. Prior to Wealthsimple, Natasha was an associate at a full-service firm in Toronto in its Privacy and Data Management group.