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UnComplex, Collaborate, and Listen: Regulators as Allies & Advisors, not Adversaries

The answer isn’t just “simplify.” The answer is: model it, specify it, automate verification, and keep humans focused where it counts.

Most frame collaboration with regulators as either a hope or a warning. But what if it became a method? What if compliance didn’t feel like a gauntlet, and oversight didn’t sound like a punishment?

In this panel, we apply the themes of model-based governance for complex systems introduced in the preceding talk. We’ll explore how regulators and regulated entities can co-create trust by aligning around shared models of assurance. When both sides utilize structured, transparent, and machine-verifiable systems to assess risk, demonstrate control effectiveness, and respond to change, the relationship evolves.

Regulation stops being a game of cat and mouse and starts becoming a shared feedback loop for safer systems and more intelligent decisions.

We’ll discuss topics such as:

  • How regulation could evolve when assurance becomes autonomous and continuous.
  • How model-based approaches give both regulators and businesses a shared vocabulary.
  • Why collaborative assurance doesn’t mean less accountability, it means more transparent accountability.
  • Highlight areas for immediate success and new modes of failure in regulator-industry collaboration.
  • Share ideas for how to avoid weaponized buzzwords (“collaboration,” “agility,” “alignment”) and focus on shared, verifiable outcomes.
Speakers
Bill Bensing
Founder at Attestify
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Martina Drvar
Advisor at European Central Bank
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Sean Neary
Head of Fraud Risk Management Services/Product at Nexi Group
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Zlatko Pervan
Senior Risk Manager at Commerzbank AG