Nirvana Farhadi

Top 10 Global RegTech Influencer

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“Effective and robust policies enable banks to remain compliant…”

Banks And Financial Institutions Need Communications Governance For Digital Age, Says New Report

NEW YORK (December 12, 2017) – To satisfy regulators, the pressure is on banks and financial institutions to be able to capture, monitor, and report on an expanding range of communications platforms and channels. Clearly, a comprehensive approach to communication governance is required to ensure tha…

“Financial services organizations’ main business is not compliance…”

The new world of regtech in managing regulatory data

Following years of new and complex regulations, and with more on the horizon, financial services companies face significant strain in meeting these requirements. Data optimization, which can be a

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The blog, the videos, the interviews…

Nirvana is a thought leader, pioneer, author, keynote speaker, and recognized global expert in the Regulatory Technology (RegTech) sector, but most of all she is a teacher and advocate for humane ethical technology, and ensuring that we embed compliance by design at the development stage of technology to mitigate risk.

She spent 20 years on “the dark side” AKA in Financial Services. In senior legal, compliance, operations and risk expert roles working across multiple sectors, regulations, and jurisdictions. She has served as a lead regulatory expert to global regulatory bodies, and institutions, for Regulatory Technology, as well as financial services regulations. She has advised, trained and held workshops for major global banks and financial institutions on various regulatory requirements.

She’s a RegTech badass™

Notable Videos

Nirvana wrote chapter five.

The REGTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries in RegulationThe Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries in Regulation.

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Nirvana also wrote the MiFID II and regulatory transaction reporting section for the peer-reviewed Journal of Securities Operations & Custody, Volume, 8, Number 3, Summer, 2016, pp. 272-277(6)

Her third book is underway.

We are in the midst of the 4th industrial revolution, with technology leading the way. The massive advances of the last several decades have given us a preview into a future previously reserved for science fiction, and dreamers. But there is another side to the Utopian promise of a world made faster, wealthier, healthier, and more connected by technology – the insidious invasion of rights, privacy, political narratives, money flows, storylines, and social cohesion.

How do we find the maximum efficacy of technology’s impact whilst ensuring a fair playing field for everybody? How do we protect the consumer without stifling creativity?

Where are the borders between the well-being of society, the interests of the individual, and the incentives of the corporation? Who gets to write the test and establish the rules? This is my work; to imagine, design, and create that “filter” through which technology must pass: “Regulatory Technology” (or RegTech).

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