Deniz Tudor
former Head of Modeling - Bread Financial & CeFPro Advisory Board Member
Deniz Tudor is a risk and banking executive, thought leader, and tech-forward strategist with more than 20 years of corporate, consulting, and academic expertise. She is known throughout her career for establishing new products, departments, global teams, and companies from the ground up. She has been a trusted C-suite advisor and executive partner spanning a career from Moody’s to Bread Financial and recently Chatham Financial. She’s a transformational change agent who bridges risk and business, drives innovation, builds strong relationships with regulators, auditors, investors, rating agencies, and external consultants. She has a PhD in economics from University of California, San Diego and a master’s in law degree from Fordham University. She also has an accounting degree from Harvard and leadership certificates from MIT and Yale. In her free time, she likes reading, writing, and presenting at industry conferences, running, and spending time with her family.
Navigating the Convergence of Traditional Payments, Stablecoins and Digital Assets
- Understanding the reshaped financial ecosystem amid policy and regulatory reform
- How tokenization and digital wallets are redefining financial intermediation
- Managing settlement, custody and counterparty risks in hybrid infrastructures
- Supervisory priorities for 2026 and cross-agency coordination on digital finance
PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing Model Risk for AI and Machine Learning with Greater Transparency and Control
- Ensuring co-existence of AI alongside MRM frameworks
- Meeting regulatory documentation and validation expectations SR26-2/OCC 26-13
- Ensuring ongoing oversight throughout the model lifecycle
- Establishing robust and effective challenge for opaque and adaptive models
GRC
Bringing Governance, Risk and Compliance Together to Create an Integrated Control Framework
- Merging governance, risk, and compliance into unified decision-making
- Addressing renewed board-level accountability and oversight expectations
- Linking financial controls, NFR and strategic risk under one structure
- Governance lessons from recent regulatory actions and enforcement trends