BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) says it will host a two-day virtual regional conference on corruption, compliance, and cybercrime.
The region’s premier financial institution said the event, which begins on Wednesday, will bring together “thought leaders from across the world to share and discuss new challenges and solutions for corruption, compliance, and cybercrime in the Caribbean.”
It said speakers would include experienced global anti-corruption practitioners, anti-money laundering specialists, cyber-crime professionals, development bankers, policymakers, regulators, law enforcement personnel, academics, private sector representatives, and civil society leaders.
Among the speakers will be Bryan P. Smith of the Chief Cybercrime Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), Norm Hodne, director of the Advanced Cloud Transparency Services at Microsoft, Wendy Delmar, President of the Caribbean Association of Banks, as well as Malcolm Geere, the Development Director, Caribbean of the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Jamaican-born Professor Trevor Munroe, the principal director of the National Integrity Action Chapter of Transparency International, and Vashti Maharaj, the adviser in the Digital Trade Policy of the Commonwealth Secretariat, will also address the conference.
The CDB said that the conference would discuss, among agenda items, the role of good governance for the sustainable development of the Caribbean, strategic solutions to de-risking correspondent banking relationships for the Caribbean, as well as the use of technology to help Caribbean governments and the private sector curb corruption.
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