International Example 6 

Risk and Compliance in the Financial Industry

 
Data Protection and Privacy
•    The need for privacy
•    Data protection in the international context
•    Legal basis of international data protection
•    Definition of a privacy policy
•    Implementation and operation of privacy policy
•    Practical example
•    Forthcoming challenges:
       -     Regulatory: privacy vs. transparency requirements
       -     Technical: ICT developments, client / user behaviour
 
Speaker:
Dr. Alexander Zinser, LL.M. , since 2010, Managing Counsel responsible for all international legal and regulatiory affairs of ReynoldsAmerican Inc. Before, leading positions in US multinationals, including European Data Protection Officer for Agilent Technologies Inc.
 
 
Regulation of the Swiss financial market
•    Overview over the Swiss regulatory system
•    Major characteristics and components
•    Cross border regulation
•    Outlook: forthcoming challenges
 
Speaker:
Christopher McHale, deputy head Solvency and Capital Requirement, Swiss Federal Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), Berne
 
 
Operative Risk Management  
•    Operative risks of banks and other financial service providers and its effects
•    Risk prevention: Process of operative RM, identification, prevention, controlling
•    Loss management
•    Practical example
 
Speaker:
Prof. Thomas Fischer , lic. oec., lic. iur., lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland; partner at aicons alternative investment consultants, Zurich
 
Duration:Each lecture 90 minutes
These units can be performed only in Switzerland due to the larger number of lecturers.