This is The Download, a short extract from my recent RiskMasters conversation with Iremar Brayner, focused on risk management in fraud prevention.

In this segment, we explore how technology is reshaping fraud detection and prevention for risk leaders and chief risk officers.

Automation, data analysis, and AI are enhancing capabilities to detect fraud, while fraudsters simultaneously leverage the same advanced technologies to develop increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Fraud prevention is evolving into a high-stakes technological race that requires strategic leadership and continuous adaptation.

What You’ll Hear

• How automation is transforming fraud detection within risk frameworks

• Why technology both strengthens fraud prevention and empowers fraud attempts

• The necessity for risk managers to constantly adapt to emerging risks and consider human emotions

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This segment is taken from the full RiskMasters interview with Iremar Brayner, which explores identity verification, automation, and the future of fraud prevention strategies in digital marketplaces, offering invaluable insights for chief risk officers and board directors in the enterprise risk landscape.

Full interview: ⁠https://www.aevitium.com/post/iremar-brayner-on-riskmasters

This episode of RiskMasters The Download features a compelling extract from Julien Haye's conversation with Iremar Brayner on the evolving challenges in fraud risk prevention.

Iremar discusses why user identity is becoming increasingly complex to define within data-rich environments and reframes fraud management as an adaptive journey. He highlights how identity verification now occurs at multiple points across the customer lifecycle, not just at checkout, emphasising a dynamic risk management framework that adjusts to context.

Listeners will learn about the shifting verification layers involved in fraud prevention and why adaptive fraud controls are critical for effective risk leadership. This conversation offers valuable insights for chief risk officers, enterprise risk managers, and board directors seeking to enhance their strategic risk approaches and leadership in fraud prevention.

Tune into RiskMasters for thought-provoking discussions that connect psychological safety, leadership, and the continuous evolution of risk management strategies in today's complex environment.

Listen to the Full Episode

This segment comes from the full RiskMasters interview with Iremar Brayner, covering fraud prevention, customer friction, automation, and trust at scale.

Full interview: https://www.aevitium.com/post/iremar-brayner-on-riskmasters

In this episode of RiskMasters, Julien Haye dives into advanced risk management and fraud prevention strategies with Iremar Brayner, focusing on high-growth, high-volume digital platforms. Drawing on over 17 years of experience, Iremar explains why fraud strategy cannot be generic, the critical role of identity as a strategic control, and the importance of embedding risk management practices into product functions rather than treating them as policing layers.

Listeners will gain insights into balancing security with user experience, navigating the practical trade-offs inherent in enterprise risk, and leveraging adaptive, data-driven frameworks to scale trust effectively. The conversation also highlights risk leadership approaches that integrate collaboration across fraud, product, engineering, and legal teams.

Key Themes & Takeaways

• Fraud is contextual, not universal
  Effective fraud strategies flex by product design, payment flows, and user behaviour.
• Identity as a strategic control
  Identity verification shapes trust, conversion, and loss prevention when designed intelligently.
• Risk as a product capability
  Strong outcomes come from deep collaboration between fraud, product, engineering, and legal.
• False positives matter as much as fraud loss
  Customer friction is a risk in its own right.
• Scaling trust in marketplaces
  High-volume platforms demand adaptive, data-driven controls rather than static rules.

Discussion Highlights

• Why one-size-fits-all fraud frameworks fail in practice
• Designing onboarding that protects the business without driving customers away
• The role of biometrics, 2FA, and analytics in modern fraud defence
• Managing fraud risk while supporting growth targets
• Building and leading multicultural fraud teams at scale

Who Should Listen

• Fraud and financial crime leaders
• Risk, compliance, and trust & safety professionals
• Product and engineering leaders working on onboarding and payments
• Executives balancing growth, conversion, and loss prevention

Disclaimer

The views shared by Iremar Brayner are his own and do not represent those of G2A or any other organisation.

📌 More about Iremar Brayner

Iremar Brayner is a senior fraud, risk, and payments professional with 17 years of experience leading fraud prevention, KYC, transaction monitoring, chargebacks, and AML across fintech, ride-hailing, retail, banking, and digital marketplaces. He is currently Head of Fraud Prevention at G2A.com, where he focuses on combining data-driven insight, operational excellence, and scalable controls to reduce risk while enabling strong customer experiences, following senior roles at PayPal, DiDi, FARFETCH, MetaMap, Zettle, and will bank.

👉 Connect with Iremar on LinkedIn

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• How to Integrate Fraud Detection and Prevention into Your Enterprise Risk Management Framework
• What Would Change if Risk Identification Was Treated as a Strategic Advantage?
• ⁠From Approval to Impact: Repositioning Risk Appetite as a Board Tool⁠
• ⁠Building Psychological Safety in Risk Management⁠

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In this CPD-accredited episode of RiskMasters, host Julien Haye is joined by Samantha Regan, Managing Director and formerly Risk Transformation Lead at Accenture. With over 20 years of leadership across financial services, regulatory strategy, and business transformation, Samantha brings a sharp and deeply practical lens to how organisations evolve their risk management and compliance functions.

From reimagining control environments to integrating Generative AI and fostering a risk-aware culture, this episode explores how risk can drive performance, not just protect against failure. Samantha shares powerful reflections from both consultancy and industry roles, highlighting the importance of purpose-led leadership, workforce reskilling, and end-to-end transformation planning.

You’ll hear actionable ideas for building risk functions that are future-ready, digitally enabled, and culturally grounded as well as insights into the mindset shifts required at board level.

“We’re moving away from box-ticking. The opportunity now is to rewire risk and compliance as value drivers, not overheads.” – Samantha Regan

If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to follow, review, and share RiskMasters. Your support helps us bring more strategic conversations to the risk and transformation community.

In this edition of RiskMasters, you will learn:

🔹 What Risk Transformation Really Means: Why success isn’t just about frameworks, but clarity of purpose, culture, and outcome-oriented design.
🔹 AI in Risk & Compliance: How Generative AI can lift administrative burdens and unlock human capacity with safeguards to preserve integrity.
🔹 Culture as a Catalyst: Why the right mindset, trust, and behavioural expectations are the hardest and most essential parts of transformation.
🔹 Building the Future-Ready Risk Function: From skills to operating models, how to shift from reactive compliance to agile, insight-driven decision-making.
🔹 Risk Leadership & Talent: Why future leaders must become “risk athletes” blending curiosity, critical thinking, and strategic fluency.

📌 More about Samantha Regan

Samantha Regan is Managing Director and Risk Transformation Lead at Accenture, where she advises global financial services clients on regulatory change, AI adoption, and compliance operating models. A former risk leader at Barclays, Samantha brings a practitioner’s lens to cultural change, leadership, and transformation at scale.

👉 Connect with Samantha on LinkedIn

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• What Would Change if Risk Identification Was Treated as a Strategic Advantage?
• Risk Tolerance Governance: Turning Boundaries into Strategic Advantage
• From Approval to Impact: Repositioning Risk Appetite as a Board Tool
• Building Psychological Safety in Risk Management

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In this conversation, Julien Haye is joined by Jeff Simmons, Head of Advisory Group and Risk & Compliance Lead at ALBA Partners, and former Chief Risk Officer at MUFG Securities Europe. With over two decades in global banking and regulatory leadership, Jeff shares candid reflections on how risk management must reconnect to purpose, people, and performance.

“Good CROs are not good scientists. They’re good risk managers who understand business.” – Jeff Simmons

In this edition of RiskMasters, you will learn:

• How regulatory relationships built on trust can become a strategic asset

• Why effective governance depends on proportionate execution and delivery discipline

• The cultural shifts needed to close the gap between strategy, appetite, and action

• How to educate boards and teams to make confident decisions with imperfect data

• Lessons from Brexit, DORA, and regulatory divergence on sustaining resilience

⏱️ Episode Highlights

00:02 – From CRO to advisor: why Jeff redefined his purpose
00:14 – Lessons from the financial crisis and the evolution of the risk function
00:31 – Building trust and transparency with regulators
00:44 – Making governance practical: from plans to delivery
00:57 – Culture, tone from the top, and psychological safety
01:05 – The future of risk: reconnecting risk and finance

📌 More about Jeff Simmons
Jeff Simmons is a senior advisor and risk governance expert with ALBA Partners, specialising in regulatory transformation, culture, and risk-function effectiveness. A former Chief Risk Officer at MUFG Securities Europe, he has led major licensing and Brexit-related programmes and continues to advise firms on building credible governance frameworks.

👉 Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-simmons-608254a/

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• The Hidden Constraint Behind Strategy and Governance – Understanding risk capacity as the foundation of credible board oversight.
• Guiding Principles for an Effective Control Environment – Twelve principles for designing ownership-driven, performance-oriented controls.
• Building Trust with Regulators – Turning supervisory dialogue into a partnership that improves governance credibility.
• Psychological Safety in Risk Management – How leadership tone and escalation culture shape foresight and resilience.
• From Approval to Impact: Repositioning Risk Appetite as a Board Tool – Practical steps to embed appetite into strategic execution.
• Change Management Risk Assessment Framework – A step-by-step guide for aligning transformation programmes with risk capacity and tolerance.

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Episode Credits:
Produced by Aevitium LTD
Edited by Julien Haye
Design: Julien Haye

In this CPD-accredited episode of RiskMasters, host Julien Haye is joined by Søren Agergaard Andersen, Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. With over two decades in banking, pensions, and asset management, Søren shares his insights on risk management leadership and the integration of ESG in long-term infrastructure investments. The conversation dives into the importance of building a robust risk culture and the role of psychological safety in facilitating effective risk leadership.

Discover how embedding risk as a business language enhances decision-making and why ESG has shifted from a compliance checkbox to a vital element of strategic risk management. You'll learn actionable strategies for aligning organisational culture with risk frameworks, ensuring that teams feel safe to express concerns and surface challenges.

Additionally, Søren discusses the potential of AI and data integrity in navigating evolving risk landscapes while maintaining human oversight in decision-making. Tune in to explore how empowered risk leaders can foster resilience and foresight within their organisations, transforming risk management into a pathway for success.

“You can build the best framework in the world, but if the culture isn’t there, it won’t matter.” – Søren Agergaard Andersen

If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to follow, review, and share RiskMasters. Your support helps bring more forward-thinking conversations to the risk community.

In this edition of RiskMasters, you will learn:

🔹 Why Risk Must Be a Business Language: How Søren turns risk appetite into a practical tool for executives and boards, embedding it in decision-making, not just policy documents.

🔹 ESG as a Strategic Dimension: Why ESG is no longer a “box” in the taxonomy but a lens shaping every investment, from greenwashing risk to stranded assets and policy volatility.

🔹 Risk Culture & Psychological Safety: How culture and trust determine whether frameworks succeed, and why risk leaders must become business partners rather than gatekeepers.

🔹 AI & Data Integrity in Risk Management: Where Søren sees opportunities for AI in risk reporting, regulation mapping, and scenario planning—while keeping “human judgment in the loop.”

🔹 Leadership for Resilient Teams: Why delegation, curiosity, and broad business understanding are the cornerstones of high-performing risk teams.

More about Søren Agergaard Andersen

Søren is Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, where he oversees risk, compliance, and ESG across global infrastructure investments. A former CRO at Nordea Asset Management, he has built and transformed risk frameworks across financial services and is a frequent speaker on risk leadership, ESG, and the future of compliance.

📌 Connect with Søren Agergaard Andersen on LinkedIn

🎙 Tune in now to explore how today’s leaders can embed resilience and foresight into every layer of decision-making.

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• Risk Tolerance Governance: Turning Boundaries into Strategic Advantage
• From Approval to Impact: Repositioning Risk Appetite as a Board Tool
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• Mastering the Art of Risk Taking: The 7 Core Attributes of Success

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What does real risk leadership look like when the pressure is on? In this debut episode of The Download — the short-form companion to RiskMasters — host Julien Haye dives deep into risk management and crisis leadership with Brenda Boultwood. Join us as we extract three transformative lessons from her vast experience in banking, energy, and governance.

Learn how to build an effective risk management framework that prioritises culture and clarity, shaping resilience long before a crisis hits. From navigating the 2008 financial crisis at Constellation Energy to redefining risk visibility in the C-suite, this episode reveals how strategic risk and governance can be leveraged as key strengths in leadership.

💡 In this episode:

• Understanding the moral and strategic dimensions of risk leadership in times of crisis
• Brenda’s “sombrero view” — why risk culture is a vital leadership platform for the future
• Insights from Jamie Dimon’s favourite meeting highlighting the essence of lived governance
• Lessons from Aevitium’s work on how risk management contributes to corporate resilience and fosters conversations in governance

🧭 Reflection prompt:

If your organisation faced a near-death experience tomorrow, would risk be viewed as the problem — or the solution to survive?

🎧 Listen to the full episode and more: https://www.aevitium.com/post/brenda-boultwood-on-riskmasters

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In this episode of RiskMasters, explore strategic risk, psychological safety, and AI’s role with expert Brenda Boultwood.

"I don’t think risk management is about compliance anymore. I think it’s about enabling a business and enabling a strategy." – Brenda Boultwood

In this CPD-accredited episode of RiskMasters, host Julien Haye welcomes Brenda Boultwood, a seasoned Chief Risk Officer (CRO), economist, board advisor, and tech executive, to explore the evolving nature of risk leadership across industries and geographies. Brenda brings a unique perspective from her work across finance, energy, academia, the IMF, and Silicon Valley.

Together, they explore what it takes to build strategic, future-ready risk frameworks that embrace uncertainty, promote psychological safety, and make space for innovation. Brenda reflects on the limitations of traditional models, the risks of ignoring cultural dynamics, and the transformative potential of AI in governance, risk, and compliance.

If you enjoyed this episode, don’t forget to like, follow, and leave a review! Your support helps us bring more thought-provoking conversations to the RiskMasters community.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by Brenda Boultwood in this episode are her own and do not reflect the official position of any institution or university with which she is affiliated.

In this edition of RiskMasters, you will learn:

🔹 Why Tone at the Top Is a Strategic Risk Lever
Brenda explains how leadership behaviour, especially during crises, shapes organizational resilience, cultural trust, and board engagement.

🔹 How to Create Psychological Safety for Better Risk Outcomes
Explore real-world examples of how safe, candid conversations improve governance and why fear-based cultures lead to paralysis, not protection.

🔹 AI and the Next Frontier of Risk Management
Discover how Brenda’s work in tech startups is shaping the future of risk intelligence, and what risk professionals need to understand about AI's capabilities and limitations.

More about Brenda Boultwood:

Brenda is a former risk executive and transformation leader with a career spanning global financial institutions, the U.S. Department of Energy, AI tech firms, and the International Monetary Fund. She serves as a board member, governance advisor, and mentor to the next generation of risk leaders. Brenda brings a data-driven, human-centred approach to strategy, cultural change, and innovation in the risk profession.

📌 Connect with Brenda Boultwood on LinkedIn for insights on risk leadership, AI, and strategic governance.

🎙 Tune in now to explore how today’s leaders can embed resilience and foresight into every layer of decision-making.

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• From Signals to Systems: Embedding Trust in Risk Governance
• Psychological Safety in Risk Management
• Leading Through Uncertainty: Decision-Making in a Nonlinear World
• The Quiet Risk in Your Risk Function: Leadership Blind Spots

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