Stay current. Understand the impact of the AML/CTF Amendment Bill 2024 just passed by Parliament, receive key insights into operational risk and management relating to the new Prudential Standard CPS230 and the latest on payment systems regulation. Learn about legal issues in data trading and practical strategies to mitigate risks. Be prepared to tackle these challenges effectively.

Presenters

Alice Molan, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
Alice Molan is a financial services regulatory specialist. Alice is a Partner in Herbert Smith Freehills’ leading Australian financial services regulatory practice. She advises local and international clients in the banking, non-bank lending, payments and fintech sectors understand the application of regulatory obligations to their business and respond accordingly. Alice specialises in licensing requirements, prudential obligations, anti-money laundering and financial crime compliance, designing ongoing internal control frameworks and responding to regulatory reform. Alice spent a number of years in Hong Kong advising international financial institutions in connection with licensing and prudential matters, banking and securities regulations, virtual asset service provider reforms, anti-money laundering controls and ongoing regulatory obligations.


Steven Klimt, Partner, Clayton Utz
Steven has been practising in the retail banking and financial services area for over 30 years. His practice covers documentation, procedures, forms and systems, and financial services regulatory issues including consumer credit, anti-money laundering. payment systems and privacy. His clients include many of Australia's leading financial institutions, Fintechs and finance companies. Steven is a contributing author to the CCH Australian Consumer Credit Law Reporter. He has been ranked in Best Lawyers Australia in Banking and Financial Services and Regulatory Practice for many years.


Marcelo de Farias, Acting Head of Legal, Auto & General Insurance
Marcelo de Farias has more than 25 years of experience as lawyer across two jurisdictions. He holds a degree in Law in Brazil and a Master of Laws from Bond University. Marcelo is the acting Head of Legal at the Auto & General Group, which provides general insurance products, including the Budget Direct brand. Marcelo has been advising Auto & General on a wide variety of matters since 2019, such as large technology contracts and financial services compliance. He has previously worked for many years in law firms in Brazil and Australia, including HopgoodGanim Lawyers and Corrs, Chambers & Westgarth. Marcelo has significant experience in advising businesses on Intellectual Property, complex IT projects and supply agreements.


Andrea Beatty, Partner, Piper Alderman
Andrea specializes in financial services, banking, and corporate law, offering expertise in regulatory matters, corporate governance, compliance, and risk management. She helps clients navigate the evolving regulatory landscape to meet customer, shareholder, and regulatory expectations. Andrea designs and conducts financial services training for providers, senior executives, legal and compliance officers, consumer advocates, and lawyers. She advises domestic and foreign institutions on acquiring financial services and credit licenses, structuring businesses, and ensuring compliance with license obligations. Her services include drafting documents, conducting systems audits, and managing online application processes. Andrea also handles regulatory compliance projects, enforcement defenses, and investigations. Her experience covers financial products and channels like FinTech, peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding, payment systems, cryptocurrency, reward programs, and financial services acquisitions. She has extensive knowledge of privacy laws and advises on data security and breach remediation. Andrea develops and reviews AML/CTF programs and conducts training workshops on credit law, privacy, and anti-money laundering. Widely published, she has authored seven editions of 'Annotated National Credit Code' and contributed to 'Consumer Finance Law Review' and 'Banking Regulation Review.' Andrea is a member of several financial services associations and serves as Deputy Chair of the Law Council Business Law Section Privacy Committee.


Stephen Ipp, Barrister, Greenway Chambers
Stephen Ipp is a barrister specialising in arbitration, building and construction, commercial, corporations and insolvency law. He acts in a wide range of disputes involving shareholders, commercial fraud, real property transactions, complex recoveries for financiers and liquidators, engineering and infrastructure disputes, general building and strata defect claims. Stephen advises on trial strategy at all stages of the litigation process and works closely with instructing solicitors. He has more than 25 years of experience working with experts across a wide range of professional disciplines. Stephen is recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia 2021 to 2024 for his expertise in Insolvency and Reorganization Law, for Insurance Law in 2023 and 2024 for Banking and Finance in 2024. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) (FCIArb).


Frank Tao, Barrister, 9 Selborne
Frank is a barrister at 9 Selborne Chambers, and previously a solicitor at Linklaters LLP, London and Henry Davis York, Sydney. He is admitted to practice in Australia and England & Wales. He specialises in company law, insolvency and bankruptcy law, banking and financial services disputes, and contentious regulatory proceedings. Frank routinely advises and represents banks and financial services providers, companies, directors, and insolvency practitioners in connection with commercial litigation, civil penalty proceedings, and regulators’ investigations and administrative actions. Among other matters, Frank is currently representing two CFD providers in unrelated civil penalty proceedings brought by ASIC.