2026 January E-Newsletter
A Message from our Executive Director
Dear Members,
Welcome to 2026.
As we begin a new year, I look forward to your continued engagement with RMA Australia and to enhancing the important role you play in strengthening the risk management profession in Australia.
Our 2026 events and webinar calendar is shaping up to be strong and diverse, designed to support our members, career stages and different disciplines.
Peter Deans, Principal and Founder of Not without Risk Consulting, will host our first webinar on 18 February on Financial Risks in 2026.
Our second webinar for the month of February is Exploring CPS 230 Operational Risk, hosted by Deloitte. With CPS 230 now in effect, this session will focus on embedding operational resilience and addressing remaining transitional requirements.
We also welcome your ideas, topic suggestions and feedback on our events and webinar program. Your insights are important in ensuring our events and webinars remain relevant, practical and aligned with the real challenges and opportunities facing risk professionals.
I encourage you to take a few minutes to complete our short online member survey, which will directly inform our 2026 program planning and help us deliver content that supports and enhances your risk management career.
Our focus this year remains on delivering high quality professional development, practical insights and opportunities for meaningful connection and discussion across our membership.
I look forward to connecting with you throughout the year.
Richard Gilbert
Executive Director
RMA Australia
Meet your host – Peter Deans
Peter Deans is the Principal and Founder of Notwithoutrisk Consulting. Notwithoutrisk Consulting is a specialist consulting firm that offers a unique range of strategy and risk advisory services aimed at banks and financial institutions, private companies, large corporations, government clients, and start-ups.
Peter has over 32 years of experience in banking and finance and retired from banking and finance in May 2019. Peter was most recently Group Chief Risk Officer at Bank of Queensland, where he was also a member of the Executive Committee for seven years. Peter has extensive experience in strategic and business planning, design and implementation of risk management frameworks, risk function organisational design, risk identification, measurement and reporting, and strategic risk / emerging risk assessment.
Peter also has well-developed, high-level expertise and experience dealing with and building relationships with regulators and policymakers.
Peter was awarded Australian Banking & Finance magazine’s Chief Risk Officer of the Year award in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018. Peter also currently holds a number of Non-Executive Director and Advisory Board roles.
Peter is the Creator & Founder of the 52 Risks® Management Framework.
Have your say!
We encourage you to take part in the RMA Australia Member Survey before it closes on Friday 30 January.
Take the survey here.
Your insights will help us understand what matters most to you and will directly inform our future direction.
The survey takes approximately five minutes to complete.
Upcoming Events
18 February | 4 – 5 pm AEDT | Webinar | Financial Risks in 2026 l Hosted by Peter Deans
25 February | 4 – 5 pm AEDT l Sydney or Webinar | Networking drinks in Sydney from 5 pm AEDT.
Exploring CPS 230 Operational Risk l Hosted by Deloitte
