Data Protection for Compliance & Financial Crime Professionals

Description

This session explores data protection obligations through the lens of compliance and financial crime functions in the DIFC. It addresses the practical challenges of balancing regulatory reporting, investigations, and monitoring with data protection and confidentiality requirements.

This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker. 

Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.

 

Content

  • DIFC data protection principles

  • Lawful processing for compliance activities

  • Data sharing with regulators and group entities

  • Managing investigations and monitoring data

  • Common risks and compliance failures

 

Presenter

Lori Baker

Vice President, Data Protection & Regulatory Compliance at the DIFC Authority

Lori Baker 

An experienced attorney with expertise in data protection and regulatory compliance, as well as broad practice in commercial contracting. She is qualified in both the USA (in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania) and the UK, and is a Fellow of Information Privacy as certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Lori now provides data protection and security strategy and support in one of the leading financial centers in the MEASA region, while in her own time she writes and speaks on various data protection and compliance topics.

Prior to relocating to Dubai in 2016, Lori was based in London, UK for 10 years, having worked most recently for Fieldfisher LLP in the technology and outsourcing team as a senior privacy and cybersecurity associate. She held in-house roles as Senior Compliance and Privacy Counsel at Dun & Bradstreet, Head of Ethics and Compliance at Orange Business Services and Global Regulatory/Privacy Specialist at BT Global Services. Lori attended DeSales University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in politics with a minor in philosophy, followed by Widener University School of Law (the Delaware Law School), where she was awarded a Juris Doctor with an emphasis in international business transactions. While at Widener, Lori enrolled in the Geneva International Law Institute, directed by instructors from the WTO, the UN and other international organisations.

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