Speakers
Sigal Mandelker
Ribbit Capital
View LinkedIn profileSigal Mandelker joined Ribbit Capital in April 2020. Prior to Ribbit, Sigal served as Acting Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department and as Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. As Under Secretary, Sigal supervised four main components of Treasury (OFAC, FinCEN, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes). Sigal previously served in a number of senior positions in the U.S. government, including as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, an AUSA in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Counselor to Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, and as a law clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sigal is also an Advisor to Chainalysis, sits on the Boards of the Financial Technology Association, the Crypto-ISAC, and the Blockchain Security Standards Council. She also served as Co-Chair of the Center for a New American Security’s (CNAS) task force on FinTech, Crypto, and National Security, and is also a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She served as a Member of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council, served on the Museum's Executive Committee, as well as Chair of the Museum's Collections & Acquisitions Committee.
Speaking At
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3:30–5:00pmTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 3Invite-Only
Sovereignty & Resilience
Strengthening Financial System Resilience Against Emerging Risks, From Quantum to Frontier Models
Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 3Invite-Only
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Chris GowerExecutive Director, Cross-Industry RiskAPRA
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Sigal MandelkerRibbit Capital
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Tom MuttonExecutive Director of Payments Innovation & FintechBank of England
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Ziqing AngHead of Policy, APACTRM Labs
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Dr. Andrzej GwizdalskiCo-founder & Chairman, ResearcherWestern Australia Web3 Association, UWA, GFTNModerator
About this session
Financial system resilience used to mean strong network security and clear regulation. Both are getting stronger — payment networks are tightening technical standards, and regulators are building oversight of critical infrastructure and third-party risk.
But the newest emerging risks don't fit neatly into either category, from quantum computing, which will eventually break the cryptography most financial infrastructure still relies on, and frontier AI models, which threatens to reshape both sides of the security equation — generating fraud that exploits trust and speed, and finding and exploiting technical vulnerabilities faster than traditional defenses were built to handle. Both demand action well before the risk fully materializes. This session brings together infrastructure providers, technology firms, and regulators to discuss what's still missing from how the industry prepares for risks that haven't fully arrived yet.
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