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The Boardroom Brief | Kenneth Farrugia, Bank of Valletta CEO, on Strategy, Sustainability, and Malta's Banking Future
Kenneth Farrugia joined Bank of Valletta in 1985 and has spent four decades building expertise across asset management, retail banking, and credit. Now serving as CEO of Bank of Valletta, he has overseen a transformation agenda centred on digital innovation, sustainability, and governance - including a partnership with Microsoft and a €325 million Euro Medium Term Note Programme. In this third edition of the Boardroom Brief, Farrugia draws on both strategic ambition and deep


The Boardroom Brief | MFSA’s Ivan Zammit on Building a Resilient, Data-Driven Regulator for the Future
In the second edition of The Boardroom Brief, we speak with Ivan Zammit, Chief Operating Officer at the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), the regulator tasked with ensuring a stable, innovative, and resilient financial services sector in Malta. Ivan brings a unique blend of engineering expertise and strategic leadership, guiding the MFSA’s digital transformation, strengthening organisational capabilities, and championing a data-driven approach to regulation. His work


The Boardroom Brief | FIAU’s Elena Tabone on Enforcement, AI, and the Future of AML in Malta
In our first edition of The Boardroom Brief, we hear from Elena Tabone, who heads the Enforcement Section at Malta’s Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIAU) - the central agency responsible for the collection, collation, processing, analysis and dissemination of information to combat money laundering and the funding of terrorism. Joining as a Compliance Officer in 2015, Elena has shaped what the FIAU has become today, including leading the rollout of CASPAR, the platform
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