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Risky Women Radio is a business podcast hosted by Risky Women®, with 106 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #14

  From Controls to Outcomes with Suzanne Allen

  Aug 20, 202632 minS9

  Ever wondered what professional horse riding and Lehman Brothers' post-collapse cleanup have in common? Quite a bit, as it turns out. In this episode of Risky Women Radio, host Kimberley Cole sits down with operational risk powerhouse Suzanne Allen to explore how a background in championship show-jumping laid the ultimate foundation for proactive risk management, resilience, and spot-on time management. Suzanne shares her journey from competing at Hickstead to rebuilding control frameworks in global markets and fintechs. She pulls back the curtain on why counting risk assessments is just "measuring effort" rather than outcome, why the traditional three-lines-of-defense model might soon be extinct, and why women are uniquely equipped to handle the human, ethical side of AI governance. SHOWNOTES 01:24 From Hickstead Show Rings to Lehman Brothers: Suzanne's Unconventional Path 06:10 Peak Performance: Applying Elite Equestrian Discipline to Risk Preparedness 10:39 AI Governance as a Human Challenge: Why Women's Voices are Essential 13:42 From Controls to Outcomes: Why Counting Risk Assessments Misses the Point 20:50 AI Misconceptions: Why It's a Business Governance Issue, Not Just Tech 25:52 The Death of the Three Lines Model: What Risk Looks Like in 10 Years

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  Episode #13

  Tracing Trafficking Through the Financial System

  Jul 29, 202641 minS9

  Today we're tackling a topic that sits at the uncomfortable intersection of finance and human suffering: human trafficking. Every year, forced labour generates hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal profits and much of that money passes through the very systems our industry is built to protect. Which means the people sitting in compliance, fraud and financial crime teams aren't just guarding against loss. In cases like this, they're often the first line standing between a trafficking network and the people it exploits. In this episode, 'Tracing Trafficking Through the Financial System,' Kimberley Cole is joined by two guests who see this problem from very different vantage points. Archana Kotecha has spent years working directly with trafficking survivors across South East Asia, and now trains financial institutions on what trafficking actually looks like on the ground. And Anurag Mohapatra of NICE Actimize brings the strategic, industry-wide view on how detection technology and typologies are evolving to keep pace. Together, we'll talk about what red flags really mean, why major global events like the 2026 World Cup raise the stakes, and what it actually takes to turn a suspicious activity report into a rescue. During our discussion we'll refence some of the findings in the Nice Actimize: The NICE Actimize Human Trafficking Investigative and Response Guide: World Cup 2026 https://resources.niceactimize.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Human-Trafficking-Investigative-and-Response-Guide-World-Cup-2026-Final.pdf

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  Episode #12

  Valuing Social Capital in the AI Era with Katrin Gülden Le Maire

  Jul 23, 202642 minS9

  In a 21st-century knowledge economy where tech valuations eclipse physical industrial giants, traditional accounting frameworks like IAS 38 are struggling to reflect what actually drives modern corporate value. In this episode of Risky Women Radio, host Kimberley Cole sits down with strategic advisor, researcher, and governance expert Katrin Gülden Le Maire . Bringing a rare interdisciplinary lens spanning finance, tech, ESG, and philosophy, Katrin unpacks why intangible assets—from human relationships and talent to organisational trust—require a radical rethink in governance. Together, they explore why relying purely on quantitative algorithms misses the mark, how AI is reshaping human connective labour, and why courageous business leaders must take charge of defining social capital before regulators do it for them. Shownotes 02:03 – From Inner-City Outreach to Private Jets: Katrin's Multidisciplinary Journey 05:51 – Principles vs. Preferences: Turning Down Corporate Mandates for Values 11:40 – Systems Thinking: Applying Cybernetics to Interconnected Business Networks 15:47 – The Knowledge Economy & The Outdated Limits of IAS 38 Accounting 23:06 – Defining Social Capital: Balancing Economic & Sociological Perspectives 27:44 – Why Business Leaders —Not Regulators—Must Drive the Social Capital Debate 38:00 – Practical Exercise: A Two-Page Challenge for Boards and Executive Leaders

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  Episode #11

  Navigating 2026 Compliance Priorities, a Mid-year Reality Check

  Jun 30, 202627 minS9

  Welcome back to Risky Women Radio , near the midpoint of 2026 . If you've spent the last few months celebrating whispered promises of regulatory "simplification" and a "lighter supervisory touch," we hate to ruin the party—but you're likely basking in false comfort . In this fourth annual check-in, host Kimberley Cole reunites with Protiviti's compliance vanguards, Carol Beaumier and Bernadine Reese , to deliver a healthy dose of reality to the mid-year compliance calendar . As it turns out, tech fragmentation, AI implementations, and financial crime networks don't magically slow down just because a regulator changes their tone . Our guests pull back the curtain on why treating a drop in regulatory intensity as an invite to slash budgets is a massive trap , why your traditional siloed compliance stack is buckling under the weight of interconnected risks , and why the ultimate compliance hazard of 2026 might just be demanding high-quality executive judgment from a thoroughly exhausted, under-resourced team . Shownotes 02:18 – The Illusion of the Lighter Touch and Risk Recalibration 06:03 – The Connected Compliance Stack: Why Silos Fail in 2026 10:11 – The Accountability Reset: Surviving the Next Regulatory U-Turn 11:58 – The Big Five: From Production-Line AI to Talent Fatigue 19:56 – Five Practical Actions for the H2 2026 Planning Reset

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  Episode #10

  Managing Operational Risk in a Changing World

  Jun 26, 202634 minS9

  Welcome to another Book Club edition! In this episode, host Kimberley Cole sits down with Penny Cagan , industry veteran, academic at Columbia and NYU, and author of Managing Operational Risk in a Changing World . From navigating the "heady days" of Basel II in the immediate aftermath of Nick Leeson's Barings debacle to building the world's first operational risk database, Penny has spent her career gently exploding conventional thinking . She joins us to discuss why change initiatives fail when you only convince the C-suite, why the second line of defence needs to stop acting like an armchair referee, and how treating AI agents like messy human employees is the key to modern governance . Shownotes 02:06 – The Nick Leeson Effect & Defining Operational Risk 04:14 – The RCSA Overhaul: A Painful Lesson in Bottom-Up Trust 08:10 – The Quantitative Love Affair vs. Old-Fashioned Management 11:04 – Peddling FIRST: Building the Industry's First Risk Database 17:48 – The Changing World: Reshaping the Operating Model 29:09 – Agentic AI: Why Robots Need an Employee Handbook

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