Diversity in Markets: Breaking Barriers – Hosted by WiBF & CBA

Nicole leads a team of experienced accredited markets professionals who provide tailored Foreign Currency, Interest Rate and Commodity risk management solutions for business customers at NAB. She has over 20+ years markets experience across multiple banks, locations, and asset classes, and is passionate about delivering outstanding outcomes for her customers. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), Diploma of Leadership and Management, Graduate Diploma of Financial Planning and is FASEA & AFMA accredited.

Shelby leads CBA’s Global Securities Financing business in Australia, with a strong record in repo, short term rates, funding and liquidity formed across all CBA roles in London, New York and Auckland.

Dr. Roshanthi Dias is the Major Discipline Leader of Finance and Lecturer in Finance at Swinburne University of Technology. She has completed her PhD in Finance and an MBA (Finance) from Swinburne University. She also holds BSc. in Banking and Finance from the University of London (London School of Economics). In industry, Roshanthi has worked in the area of equity research in brokerage/investment banking and in foreign direct investment. Her research focuses on risk-taking practices of banks. Central to her work is the role of capital regulation in providing incentives for risk-taking and how financial innovation (i.e. credit default swaps) informs the capital regulation and bank risk-taking. Her primary research interests include Risk, Banking/Regulation, Credit Default Swaps, ESG and Financial Markets.

Rebecca Crabb is the Chief Operating Officer for the Global Markets business which is part of the Institutional Banking and Markets (IB&M) division of the Commonwealth Bank. The Global Markets business spans multiple jurisdictions and she is responsible for leading, developing and driving the strategic direction and operational effectiveness of the business and its support functions. Rebecca is also the co-chair of the IB&M Inclusion and Diversity committee and on the board for Women in Banking and Finance.

Prior to joining CBA, Rebecca worked at RBC Capital Markets as Head of Office of COO – APAC where she was responsible for governance and oversight for APAC as well as articulating and driving business strategy in partnership with the business and functions. While in this role she also managed regulatory on-sites with ASIC & HKMA delivering all actions from their findings.

Additionally, Rebecca worked at NAB for a number of years in Markets Business Management across IRS, FI, FX, Commodities, Digital, Structuring and Sales. She also built and led NAB’s Markets Support Team to support the Markets business and their customers as well as project managed APRA and US Federal Reserve submissions for key derivatives regulation.

Rebecca is originally from Adelaide and now lives in Bondi with her husband Ian, they have 4 children aged 24, 22, 19 and 16 and she unashamedly a “crazy cocker spaniel lady” owning 2 beautiful cocker spaniels!