Reimagining Internal Audit in the Remote Gaming Industry

Course Description:

The event aims to bring together remote gaming industry stakeholders and provide a platform for attendees to share their experiences and learn from each other in a collaborative environment.

In this event, KPMG internal audit leaders, industry experts, and professionals will discuss the latest trends, best practices, and challenges in the internal audit of gaming companies. The discussions will focus on key topics around regulatory compliance & financial crime, sustainability, and resilience.

The session will include a panel session and followed by networking drinks.

Target Audience:

The event is exclusively for selected senior executives and C-suites across the gaming industry.

CPE Hours: This course qualifies for 1.5 hours of Structured CPE which can be classified as Core Competency. A certificate of attendance will be provided at the end of the session.

Speakers:

Alex Azzopardi, Partner, Risk Consulting Advisory Services, KPMG in Malta

Alex Azzopardi

Alex is a Partner, Risk Consulting Advisory, KPMG in Malta and is an accountant by profession with 15 years of experience. He has managed and led various AML-related advisory engagements over the past years. The AML/CFT Advisory offering includes a full suite of services in the field: reviews of policies and procedures, testing of AML-related procedures and gap analyses. Alex leads a team of highly-specialised professionals with experience across the spectrum of subject persons and relevant activities. Alex also provides compliance-related training sessions, including AML/CFT. He is the current Chairman of the Malta Forum for Internal Auditors.

Giselle Borg, Partner, Risk Consulting Advisory Services, KPMG in Malta

Giselle Borg

Giselle joined KPMG as an accountant in 2003 and spent the first 13 years of her career working within KPMG Malta’s audit department where she led audit and assurance engagements for various market players, with a focus on the insurance industry. Today, Giselle advises firms on financial services regulatory, risk and actuarial matters in the areas of corporate governance, regulatory reporting, risk management, internal audit (including AML) and actuarial services (including Solvency II and IFRS 17). Giselle also assists clients with their regulatory license application for setting up a regulated company in Malta.

Russell Mifsud, Director, Gaming, KPMG in Malta

Russell Mifsud

Russell is dedicated to all aspects of the Gaming industry as a whole. He strives to remain on top of all externalities on a Global scale, in order to best advise KPMG and its clients on opportunities within the industry alongside best guidance techniques. Within the gaming space, new trends, licensing, strategic opportunities, compliance, M&As, competing jurisdictions, disruptive technologies, crypto currencies and gamification are some of the aspects that Russell focuses on, whilst keeping a macroeconomic perspective in hand. Russell is currently working on numerous techniques to help raise the bar and champion Malta as the jurisdiction of choice, including holding regular meetings with the Regulator at the Malta Gaming Authority and other industry stakeholders and speaking at high profile conferences and other international events. Bringing conferences of calibre to the island, round tables and aligning the efforts of the KPMG Global Gaming network, are amongst some of the activities that Russell undertakes, in order to keep stakeholders up-to-date on emerging markets, opportunities and industry hot topics.

Deborah Cassar, Associate Director, Risk Consulting Advisory Services, KPMG in Malta

Deborah Cassar

Deborah is an Associate Director, Risk Consulting Advisory – AML Services, at KPMG Malta. Deborah has over ten years’ experience within the Financial Services sector, worked for over two years with the FIAU, and has over twelve years’ experience within the AML/CFT field. She has worked extensively in the area of AML/CFT compliance – performing Compliance reviews, as well as assisting subject persons to establish appropriate AML/CFT internal structures. She is a recognised and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and also completed the Advanced CAMS in Risk Management (CAMS-RM). Deborah is an active member with the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“ACAMS”), is also a Co-Founder & Co-Chair of the ACAMS Malta Chapter.

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Course Features

Language English
Assessments

Alex Azzopardi

Partner

Alex joined the firm in 2005 within the firm’s Audit function where he specialised in the external audits of financial services entities. After 8 years, Alex moved to the Advisory function, where he assisted in the setting up of the Internal Audit Services line. Today, he leads engagements mainly focused on the provision of services in enterprise risk, corporate governance, regulatory compliance (including licensing), AML/CFT and internal audit services across the regulated financial services sectors and other non-regulated businesses. Alex is the Chairman of the Malta Forum for Internal Auditors, Fellow of the MIA and a member of ISACA.

Giselle Borg

Partner

Giselle is a Partner, Risk Consulting Advisory, KPMG in Malta. She advises firms on corporate governance, regulatory reporting, enterprise risk management, internal audit and actuarial matters (including Solvency II and IFRS 17). Giselle has experience in the insurance market through her previous role as a director in KPMG Malta’s audit department, where she led audit and assurance engagements for various market players, with a focus on the insurance industry.

Russell Mifsud

Director

Deborah Cassar

Associate Director

Deborah is an Associate Director, Risk Consulting Advisory - AML Services, at KPMG Malta. Deborah has over ten years’ experience within the Financial Services sector, worked for over two years with the FIAU, and has over thirteen years’ experience within the AML/CFT field. She has worked extensively in the area of AML/CFT compliance - performing Compliance reviews, as well as assisting subject persons to establish appropriate AML/CFT internal structures. She is a recognised and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and also completed the Advanced CAMS in Risk Management (CAMS-RM). Deborah is an active member with the Association of Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“ACAMS”), is also a Co-Founder & Co-Chair of the ACAMS Malta Chapter.

Valentina Franch

Senior Manager

Valentina is a lawyer and Senior Manager at KPMG Malta, specialising in the iGaming sphere. Valentina has been active in the industry for several years. She regularly advises clients on a wide variety of areas, such as regulatory requirements, licence acquisitions and compliance obligations, safer gambling, management consultancy, growth strategies, due diligence and AML/CFT. Valentina is a member of a core group of professionals that specialise in remote gaming within the KPMG network globally and works cross-functionally alongside KPMG’s dedicated teams of individuals who provide industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to a large and varied client base across the gaming industry, both locally and internationally.