Shared solutions to the shared challenges of regulation

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Regulatory change impacts every organisation. While some challenges are unique, many are shared across industries and borders. These shared challenges are rarely solved in isolation, but they can be tackled collectively. That’s where Co-Labs Global comes in.

A new innovation ecosystem

ABOUT CO-LABS

Co-Labs brings business leaders from competing organisations together – along with regulators, academics, and innovators – in a radically collaborative process of events and hackathons, to create shared solutions to the shared challenges of regulation. By combining diverse perspectives, data, and expertise we accelerate fresh thinking and create solutions that make regulation work better for businesses, markets, and the wider world.

  • Shared solutions to shared challenges means innovating products, services, partnerships and standards that can solve real-life business problems and unlock growth. Our cross-sector and cross-border collaboration approach is more impactful than established consultancy and innovation models and our ambition is to make sure Co-Labs generates as much value as possible. This starts with our ecosystem partners who get first mover advantage and revenue share opportunities on all the solutions we create together.

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WHY?

When regulation works well, the world works better

Good regulation is one of the most powerful levers for creating fair, sustainable, and competitive markets that underpin innovation and growth while protecting our shared future. But rapid technological and societal change makes it harder for regulation to deliver on this promise. Co-Labs Global tackles this challenge. Our trust-based, iterative process enables collaboration on the toughest regulatory and risk issues, creating pragmatic, adoptable solutions that drive value for our ecosystem partners while unlocking the positive power of regulation.

  • We focus on six interlocking global challenges:

    • AI Practices

    • Sustainability

    • Economic Crime

    • Regulatory Reporting

    • Operational Resilience

    • Digital Assets & Crypto

    By tackling these challenges together, we help regulation work better for businesses, markets, and the world. Because we believe when regulation works well, the world works better

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MEET OUR COMMUNITY

Co-Labs is powered by a unique ecosystem of experts, practitioners and innovators, regulators, academics and business leaders.

OUR FOUNDER & CEO

Sarah Sinclair

Sarah created Co Labs Global, bringing over 30 years of experience navigating complex change across financial services and beyond. Drawing on her technology expertise and deep understanding of risk and regulatory compliance, she created Co-Labs to tackle the toughest shared challenges in regulation. Why? because collaboration was the most challenging ‘gap’ that is not well defined, and not co-ordinated at scale. Collaboration is the key to driving good outcomes, both for individual organisations, and also at sector, industry and international levels.

Sarah’s approach combines commercial acumen with a talent for connecting diverse stakeholders, enabling pragmatic, adoptable solutions that make regulation work better for businesses, markets, and the world.

OUR ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS

  • Karen Massie

    Regulatory Reporting Co-Lab Lead

  • Adriana Ennab

    Digital Assets & Crypto Co-Lab Lead

  • Donna Stimson

    Leader in Sustainability, Inclusion, and Culture | former local government policy maker | Anthropist

  • Tony Underwood

    Chief Care Enforcer | Co-Founder of Believe Solutions

  • Julia Streets

    Founder and CEO, Streets Consulting Ltd, Senior leadership coach

  • Annabel Gillard

    AI Practices Co-Lab Lead

  • Annabel Nelson

    Sustainability Co-Lab Lead

  • Josie Daw

    Seoul Tech Impact Organizer | Co-Lead Tech Korea Advocates | Full Stack Developer

  • Alan Blanchard

    Business Development Leader | RegTech, SaaS Sales, Partnerships

  • Anne Elkington

    Board Advisor / NED | Financial Services | Business Strategy | Finance & Investment | Governance

  • Carolina Minio Paluello PhD

    Architect of FinTech ecosystems

  • David Marriage

    Disruption and Innovation - Sustainability at PwC

  • Dr Theodor Cojoianu

    Associate Professor in Sustainable Finance at Edinburgh University

  • Graham Corr

    FinTech RegTech ESG Advisory Regulatory Reporting

  • Isabelle Chatel de Brancion

    Architect, entrepreneur, investor

  • Jane Jee

    Economic Crime Co-Lab Lead

  • Jonathan Frost

    Fraud & Cybercrime Consultancy : Economic Crime : Law Enforcement

  • Jonathan Guppy

    Head of Sustainability, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

  • Kristoffer Nilaus Tarp

    Director for Sustainability at Advice

  • Michael Collins

    1st Chair of the IRSG* ESG Committee (*International Regulatory Strategy Group)

  • Paris Jordan, CFA

    Head of Responsible Investing @ Charles Stanley | Co-Founder of Virtuvest

  • Prof. Carsten Maple

    Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering and Director for Cyber Security Research

  • Prof. Iwa Salami

    Professor of Law & Director, UEL Centre of FinTech

  • Prof. Karen Elliott

    Chair/Professor in Finance & FinTech

  • Prof. Robert Wardrop

    Prof at Cambridge University and spin-out founder of RegGenome

  • Richard Peers

    Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd

  • Tristram Hicks

    Tristram Hicks

    Author 'The War on Dirty Money', anti-money laundering & criminal justice adviser

  • Rachel Woolley

    Rachel Woolley

    Strategic Advisor | Financial Crime

  • Anthony Gavin

    SupTech | Supervision Transformation | Strategic data |technology and data enabled business transformation

  • Dr. Mick O’Connor

    RegTech | GRC | Complex Systems | Organisational Effectiveness

  • Devraj Basu

    Regtech and AI | Convenor of Regtech Forum

  • Ian Davey

    Co-Labs Scotland co-founder, FinTech-Tables Founder

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VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

Here’s a preview of the great work we do at Co-Labs Global

This short introductory video shows how Co-Labs Global is convening a vibrant and innovative ecosystem to create shared solutions to the shared challenges of regulation.

Thank you to our partners, Stefan and Laura from Undivided for your brilliant work developing our branding story and key messages

Watch a snapshot of the first Co-Labs Global Hackathon in London, where we defined pathways and shared solutions to the shared challenges of regulation across seven diverse use cases.

Hear from Annabel Gillard, Sacha Dench, Prof. Karen Elliott, Andrew Smith, Tony Underwood, and others.

See how FinTech leaders gathered in London to explore business and growth opportunities between the UK and South Korea.  Experience the energy and excitement around leveraging collaboration to focus on the human angle and achieve closer alignment between the two thriving FinTech centres.

Hear from Katie Wilson, Tony Hughes, Peter Cunnane, and others.

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TESTIMONIALS

“The Bank believes in the need to transform how regulatory reporting works.

As we set out in our Transformation Plan, we know that collaborative initiatives will be crucial to deliver that transformation: both those run by the Bank and FCA, such as our joint transformation programme, and private sector initiatives with similar goals like Co-Labs.”

Angus Moir,
Bank of England

“Change Gap, in creating Co-Labs, is taking affirmative action to bring interested parties together and unlock the potential of technology to improve the whole ecosystem.

Co-Labs will drive the definition and adoption of much needed standards and best practice strong platform for growth is created and appropriate areas of competition are enhanced to the benefit of all parties within the system.  Financial crime prevention in particular can be vastly improved by better collaborative efforts.”

Jane Jee, Project Financial Crime,
Payments Association

“Co-creation of value and ultimately trust is key for the future collaborative regulatory ecosystem given the unprecedented growth in both the volume and complexity of regulations.

I see Co-Labs by Change Gap as a great initiative augmenting the collaboration efforts by standards bodies.  Innovative collaboration among all stakeholders is needed to bridge the existing and future gaps in the RegTech and SupTech environment and unlock new levels of trust for a digital economy. We are looking forward to working with ChangeGap in the Co-Labs to create a more automated and efficient regulatory ecosystem.”

Michal Piechocki, Chairman + CEO Business Reporting - Advisory Group

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CONTACT

Reach out to find out more and see how Co-Labs can help your organisation.

connect@co-labs.global

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