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

📝 Related Resources:

• 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

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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

📝 Related Resources:

• 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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📝 Related Resources:
• Appetite as a Strategic Capability – Framework linking ambition, capacity, and governance to strengthen decision alignment.
• 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