Name: Babak Abbaszadeh
LinkedIn ID: Comming Soon
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Socorro Heysen
Board Member, Toronto Centre; Former Superintendent, Banks, Insurance, and Pension Fund Administrators, Peru
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Hunter Sims
Associate Director of Business & Operations, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
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Tamara Cook
CEO, Financial Sector Deepening Kenya
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Olaf Weber
Professor & CIBC Chair in Sustainable Finance, Schulich School of Business
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Ian Gorst
Minister for External Relations, Government of Jersey
Program Description
As digital transformation accelerates across global financial systems, emerging technologies—ranging from artificial intelligence and blockchain to digital public infrastructure—reshape the landscape of financial services. These innovations can help to drive the global sustainable development agenda but also introduce systemic risks into the financial sector, particularly for regulators and supervisors in developing economies and emerging markets.
This executive-level panel explores adapting supervision and regulatory frameworks to keep pace with rapid technological change, and the role of central banks and supervisors in accelerating the Global Sustainable Development agenda. The conversation will highlight the urgent need for coordinated global approaches and how combatting financial crime, and the illicit flow of finances is foundational for a stable digital financial ecosystem. Robust regulatory action can both harness the power of emerging technology and ensure that financial crime does not undermine our progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Key themes include:
- Building supervisory capacity to respond to fast-moving fintech and AI innovation without reversing financial inclusion gains
- Cyber resilience and combating financial crime as a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development
- Strengthening the financial sector’s role in supporting climate and sustainability goals
This virtual FFD4 side event will convene voices from central banks and supervisory authorities, international development agencies and organizations, and financial cybercrime leaders to identify actionable solutions that meet the moment.
Opening Remarks:
Deputy Ian Gorst, Minister for External Relations, Government of Jersey
Panelists:
Socorro Heysen, Board Member, Toronto Centre; Former Superintendent, Banks, Insurance, and Pension Fund Administrators, Peru
Hunter Sims, Associate Director of Business & Operations, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
Tamara Cook, CEO, Financial Sector Deepening Kenya
Olaf Weber, Professor & CIBC Chair in Sustainable Finance, Schulich School of Business
Moderator:
Babak Abbaszadeh, President and CEO, Toronto Centre
Read their biographies here.
Program Agenda
No agenda will be available for this event.
There will be a Q & A session near the end of the panel session. Registrants are encouraged to ask relevant questions.
Simultaneous translation available in Spanish and French / Interpretación simultánea en español será disponible / Traduction simultanée disponible en français.
Who Should Attend
This panel session is relevant to financial supervisors and regulators, as well as their organizations and agencies, especially from developing countries. Registrants currently working in the global development and foreign aid sectors, as well as monetary policy, will also benefit from this session.
- Adapting supervision and regulatory frameworks to keep pace with change
- Accelerating the Global Sustainable Development agenda
- Fast-moving fintech and AI innovation
- Cyber resilience and combating financial crime
- The financial sector’s role in supporting climate and sustainability goals
