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December 15, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Financial institutions - including payments providers, crypto exchanges, fintech’s, and banks - play a critical role in preventing child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), often without being fully aware of the influence they already hold. Following recent regulatory learnings, this session brings together industry professionals to provide practical steps to ensure your organisation is equipped to identify risks, strengthen controls, and respond confidently.
We will unpack the financial, regulatory, and reputational risks that can sit within everyday customer activity and demonstrate how finance professionals are uniquely positioned to disrupt and prevent harm from various areas across their company.
Join us for our final Monthly Brown Bag of the year as we outline sector-specific actions financial services organisations can take to move beyond compliance and actively disrupt harm. You will leave with practical next steps and a clear view of how ICMEC Australia can work alongside your institution to build safer systems, reduce risk, and contribute to a stronger, more responsible financial ecosystem.
Your speakers
Nick Kokay
Head of Compliance and MLRO, Australia, Coinbase
Nick Kokay is the Head of Compliance and MLRO at Coinbase. He is AML/CFT and sanctions specialist with deep experience across government, fintech, and professional services. He has led major reforms to New Zealand’s AML/CFT framework at the Ministry of Justice, represented New Zealand at the FATF and Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering, headed fincrime compliance for Australia and New Zealand at Wise, and was an Associate Director at KPMG.
Mark Dickson
Executive Manager, Financial Crime, Westpac Group
Mark Dickson is a financial crime intelligence specialist. He has worked in financial crime related roles at the Westpac Group for 17 years and currently leads the Financial Crime Intelligence (FCI) function within Group Financial Crime. Mark is passionate about collaborating with stakeholders to lead the fight against child sexual exploitation and his teams actively partner with AUSTRAC, the Fintel Alliance, law enforcement and ICMEC Australia to promote child protection initiatives.
Event details
Event rescheduled for the new year
In light of the tragic events that occurred on December 14, this Monthly Brown Bag, 'The cost of missing the signs: Addressing CSEA risk', is going to be rescheduled for the new year. Once we have a new date finalised, we will communicate this to all registrants.
We feel that you, our community, will have other priorities on this day, including processing this very sad event.
For anyone who may be affected by the incident, the following support services are available:
Take care and stay safe during the holiday period.
ICMEC Australia
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