GARP Australia Chapter: Operational Resilience in Financial Markets: Navigating New Regulatory Standards

Wade Martin joined UniSuper in February 2024, bringing with him 20 years of experience in the superannuation industry. 

In his current role as Chief Risk Officer at UniSuper, Wade oversees the Risk, Legal, Regulatory Oversight and Assurance, Internal Audit, and Financial Crime functions. 

Wade holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Administration and a Bachelor of Laws from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Additionally, he has completed a Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting from Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

Reporting to the Group Chief Risk Officer, Peter leads the teams of risk professionals responsible for Line 2 review and challenge of National Australia Bank’s management of operational and financial resilience risks. His accountabilities include setting NAB Group’s risk management policies, frameworks and risk appetite relating to its capital, funding, liquidity, technology, data, privacy, information security, third party, ESG and strategic risks.

Peter commenced his financial services career with Credit Suisse in 1986 before becoming a derivatives trader for Japanese and Canadian banks. He has worked in the UK, New Zealand and Australia and served as a Chief Risk Officer for NAB’s Corporate and Institutional Bank and the Bank of New Zealand for which he was also a member of the Executive Team. Prior to joining NAB in 2005, he held senior risk management positions at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in London and Sydney.

In addition to his executive role, Peter is a Non-Executive Director of CLS Group Holdings AG and CLS Bank International, the systemically important financial market infrastructure providing multilateral and bilateral netting services to the global FX market. Peter is a member of the CLS Board Risk Management and Technology and Operations Committees. Peter is also a member of the NAB Ventures Investment Committee.

Peter has a First Class Honours Degree in Mathematics and a postgraduate degree in Quantitative Finance. He is an alumnus of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he completed the Stanford Executive Program in 2018.

Ally has 20 years’ experience in providing risk transformation and advice services to Financial Services companies in both Australia and the UK. Ally re-joined Deloitte as a partner in 2016 after spending two years with Westpac’s Operational Risk team and leads Deloitte’s Digital risk services to Financial Services clients.

Ally has spent the last two years delivering CPS230 implementation advice and support across a number of large banks and insurers in the Australian market. This has included readiness assessments, review and challenge of methodologies and outcomes, drafting of policies and operating models. Ally leads Deloitte’s risk transformation offering and has delivered large scale uplift across large Financial Services Institutions in the Australian market. Ally also recently led the external independent review of the payments ecosystem at the RBA, following a material outage, delivering the public report.

Mike van de Graaf is General Manager Risk & Performance Measurement at Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV). He is responsible for financial risk management, risk appetite, risk policy, enterprise risk management, operational risk, risk technology, and business intelligence and new product development. 

Previously Mike held executive roles at ANZ and worked with Deloitte in The Netherlands, U.S., and Australia. He has a Masters of Science from the University of Amsterdam and completed GARP's FRM® Certification and SCR® Certificate as well as the AMP at INSEAD. He has recently completed ‘Competing in the Age of AI’ at Harvard Business School.

Mike is Director of the GARP Australia chapter.