Experts to Discuss Emerging Technology, Ethical Decision Making, Burnout and More at Canadian Anti-Fraud Conference

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Experts to Discuss Emerging Technology, Ethical Decision Making, Burnout and More at Canadian Anti-Fraud Conference

Hundreds of anti-fraud professionals will hear from director and CEO of FINTRAC Sarah Paquet, tech journalist Takara Small, Gold AE whistleblower Andre Gauthier and more at the virtual 2021 ACFE Fraud Conference Canada, November 7-10.

One of the speakers, Garth Sheriff, CPA, CA, CIA, will discuss the pivotal role psychological safety plays in preventing fraud in organizations. Sheriff, the founder of Sheriff Consulting, told the ACFE that employees need to have psychological safety in order to maintain an ethical culture. “Psychological safety is a shared belief that a team and organization are safe for interpersonal risk-taking,” Sheriff said. “There are numerous examples … in which pervasive low psychological safety within an organization can cause an individual's ethical decision-making system, or that provided by their profession, to retreat in fear.”

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Jules Kroll Stresses That Practitioners Can’t Grow Without Innovating

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Jules Kroll Stresses That Practitioners Can’t Grow Without Innovating

Jules Kroll recently had a shocking conversation with the head of compliance at a major European bank. “I asked them what they had seen in terms of fraud in the first quarter of the year,” said Kroll, during the Monday Opening General Session of the 31st Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference. “They were seeing [fraud] up over 600%. So, we have our work cut out for us. … I don't think we're ever going to see a sudden outbreak of honesty.” Kroll, the 2020 recipient of the ACFE’s Cressey Award, says the profession needs to continue to innovate to find new ways to combat fraud as he did when he was a pioneer of the modern intelligence and corporate security industry.

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NAB Whistleblower Says Australian Banking Industry Has “A Long Way to Go” in Promoting Ethical Behavior

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NAB Whistleblower Says Australian Banking Industry Has “A Long Way to Go” in Promoting Ethical Behavior

Dennis Gentilin, NAB whistleblower, author of The Origins of Ethical Failures: Lessons for Leaders and Founding Director of Human Systems Advisory will be joined by Kate McClymont, an investigative journalist, among others to address hundreds of anti-fraud professionals in Sydney this autumn at the 2018 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific. The conference will be held 23-25 September at the Sheraton on the Park.


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