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Stacey English

Stacey English
25 years'​ regulatory risk, compliance, audit and regtech experience within global financial services, regulators and technology providers. A Chartered Certified accountant with the highest results worldwide. Holds the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Certificate in Financial Planning, completed the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme through Saïd Business School and has first class degrees in BSc (Hons) Applied Accounting and BA (Hons) Business Administration. A Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, the Personal Finance Society and the Chartered Insurance Institute. An Honorary Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School - Cambridge Centre For Alternative Finance.
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Recent Posts

Misconduct In Chat – The Risks And How To Reduce Them

Posted by Stacey English on Jun 23, 2021 8:27:58 AM

Billions of dollars in fines and rising

Nearly half a billion dollars in fines announced by the European Commission for trading cartels involving ten global banks is a stark reminder of the challenges firms face in monitoring chat and instant messages to detect misconduct. Communications in chat rooms enabled the sharing of commercially sensitive information to go undetected for several years.

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Topics: chat compliance, regtech

Survey results: the risks and challenges of deploying Microsoft Teams

Posted by Stacey English on Jun 8, 2021 8:30:00 AM

Archiving and Data Protection 

An independent survey by Osterman Research, and sponsored by Theta Lake, sought the views of 142 IT decision-makers in mid to large organizations using Microsoft Teams. Participants were asked in-depth questions about their organization’s capabilities and challenges in relation to archiving and protecting the many data types produced within the platform.

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Topics: Microsoft Teams, survey

Video call fatigue – what are the risks and how to reduce them

Posted by Stacey English on Jun 2, 2021 2:00:00 AM

Nineteen video meetings in one day is Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan’s personal record.   It’s a new way of working that many can relate to, and similarly struggle to get through.  The notion that extensive on-screen calls cause feelings of fatigue is supported by Microsoft’s own research.   But it’s not just the ‘constraints of video conferencing technology, when combined with increased cadence in meetings’ that’s causing fatigue, it’s the fact that video calls also require more engagement and concentration.  The absence of the non-verbal cues we’d normally rely on in person, the need for sustained attention through meetings and a lack of variety in what’s shown on screen are all contributors.

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Topics: compliance, data leakage, video conferencing

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Theta Lake provides security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms using frictionless partner integrations with Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Slack, Zoom, and more. Using patented machine learning and NLP, Theta Lake detects risks in: video, voice, chat, and document content across what is shared, shown, spoken, and typed. Those risks are surfaced in an AI-assisted, patent-pending review workspace that adds consistency, efficiency, and scale for security and compliance teams. All of this enables organizations to safely realize the full ROI of a collaboration-first workplace while reducing the cost of security and compliance.

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