11th ANNUAL RISK EMEA 2022
13-14 June, 2022 | London

REGULATION
Assessing how the regulatory agenda is transforming banking
BUSINESS STRATEGY
Adapting business strategy within a changing environment
MARKET EVENTS
Reviewing preparedness for past market events and how to anticipate future events
EMERGING RISKS
Monitoring emerging risks on the horizon and developing effective mitigation strategies
RESILIENCE
Fit for the future: How resilient is your bank?

Digital Transformation | AI & Machine Learning |Technology | Big Tech | Open Banking | Model Risk | Cloud | Cryptocurrency
Plus much more…
Cyber Risk | Ransomware | Climate Risk | ESG | Fraud | Reputation Risk | Operational Resilience | Supply Chain Risk | ERM
Plus much more…
Inflation | Macro Economic View | Interest Rates | Credit Risk | Climate Stress Test | ESG Pricing | Liquidity Risk | Capital frameworks | Credit Processing
Plus much more…


Jeremy Arnold
Chief Risk Officer
NatWest Markets

David Glendinning
Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk UK
Société Générale

Cecilia Gejke
Chief Risk Officer
East-West United Bank S.A

Katey Neate
Chief Risk Officer, Asset Servicing and Digital
BNY Mellon

Jeff Simmons
Chief Risk Officer
MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.

Fabrice Brossart
Chief Risk Officer, General Insurance and International
AIG

Hanna Sarraf
Chief Risk Officer
Starling International

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
GIB Asset Management

Nicola Crawford
Chief Risk Officer
National Bank of Kuwait

Mark Chaplin
UK Life Chief Risk Officer
Aviva Plc






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8:00 Registration and breakfast | 9:00 Chair’s opening remarks
BUSINESS STRATEGY – PANEL
Session details
- Adjusting to a post Covid-19 environment
- Adopting digital strategies
- Impact of inflationary pressures on strategy and business approach
- Keeping ahead of changing consumer behavior
- Aligning global business models
- Manage different dimensions of risk in uncertain times
- Retaining employee talent in a changing environment
- Transforming business models to maintain and increase profitability
Fabrice Brossart, Chief Risk Officer, General Insurance and International, AIG
Ebbe Negenman, Group Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Executive Board, Knab
MARKET EVENTS
Session details
- Covid-19 response
- Changing market signals increasing volatility
- Brexit 2 years on
- Lessons learnt from large scale and global events
- Developing agility to stay ahead of events
- Managing changing politicized environment
- Exacerbation of political unrest post Brexit
David Glendinning, Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk UK, Société Générale
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10:40 Morning refreshment break and networking

OPEN BANKING
Session details
- Robustness of cyber security and attacks
- Understanding how to manage data
- Effectively using open bank to improve customer experience
- Ensuring open banking data is correctly managed
- Ensure correct tools are used to manage open banking
AI & MACHINE LEARNING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- EBA guidelines for machine learning
- Legacy limitations in larger institutions
- Managing adoption of new models
- Eliminating bias from machine learning models and data sets
- Managing discrimination in credit decisioning
- Effectively implementing AI models in a robust way
- Meeting machine learning model requirements
Nicolae Mera, Head of EMEA Market Risk Analytics, Morgan Stanley
Stuart Burns, Head of Model Development and Validation, Former Bank of England (TBC)

CYBER RISK
Session details
- Cooperation between regulators and financial institutions
- Quantifying of cyber and IT risks
- Building sophisticated defenses
- Disaster recovery processes
- Looking at cyber risk from a company wide holistic view
- Collaborating as an industry to combat cyber threats
Jayaraj Puthanveedu, Managing Director – Cyber & Technology Risk/Group Operational Risk Management, BNP Paribas
RANSOMWARE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Assessing the cause of increased ransomware attacks
- Evolving methodology to manage and identify ransomware risks
- Managing the threat ransomware can have on third party suppliers
- Importance of protecting valuable data from ransomware attacks
Fabrice Brossart, Chief Risk Officer, General Insurance and International, AIG
Vikas Munshi, Enterprise Security Architect, ING

MARKET RISK
Session details coming soon
Swati Bansal, Global Head, Market Risk for Credit Business, Goldman Sachs
MACRO ECONOMIC VIEW – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Managing risk in a rising interest rate environment
- Changes to spending power and economic development
- Impact of increased energy prices on markets
- Understanding probabilities of default and changes to customer behavior
- Anticipating changes to monetary policy
Jeremy Arnold, Chief Risk Officer, NatWest Markets
Amit Kalyanaraman, Head of CS AG Liquidity Risk, Credit Suisse
Jerome Henry, Principal Advisor, ECB
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12:35 Lunch break and networking
TECHNOLOGY
Session details
- Complexities of bringing new technology into large organizations
- Data limitations as technology continues to evolve
- Use cases for Blockchain in risk management
- Automating processes to reduce operational risk
- Digitization of customer journey
- Transition risks on risk and finance teams
Amit Lakhani, Head of Third Party Risk Management, CIB, BNP Paribas
DIGITAL RISK AND CONTROL
Session details
- A brief review of the impact of the tech revolution on the economic and financial system
- Looking back from a likely future: a top-down, conceptual, systemic design approach
- Risk future: what specifications and necessary conditions for staying in control in the digital age?
- A systemic vision and model to guide us to effective strategies and feasible next steps
Francis Gross, Senior Adviser, European Central Bank
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Evolving business models for long term sustainability
- Aligning with customer experience
- Updating product offerings to keep ahead of expectations
- Increased security requirements for clients data
- Developing risk skills to manage increased digitalization
Anshu Khanna, Managing Director, Head of Risk Controls, Barclays
Libor Krkoska, Deputy Director, Country Strategy, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Stephane Malrait, Head of Market Structure and Innovation, ING Bank NV
CLIMATE RISK
Session details
- Aligning with risk appetite
- Global approaches and expectations
- Developing models to interpret climate data
- Assessing actions made in light of COP 26 commitments
- Managing and reporting on scope one, two and three
- Effectively assessing climate risk appetite
Nicola Crawford, Chief Risk Officer, National Bank of Kuwait
PEOPLE RISK
Session details
- What are the people risk trends
- How are organisations responding
- Is D&I a key risk or opportunity
- Has the model changed forever
- What do our works colleagues really want now
Gary Savill, Head of Enterprise Risk, SAGA
FRAUD – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Code of conduct to pay for fraud losses
- Managing the indirect impact Covid-19 has had on Fraud
- Mitigating the risk of ever-increasing fraud in a new digital world
- Managing an increase in phishing attacks
- Monitoring how working from home has increased fraudulent activities
John Keogan, Head, Fraud Risk – Internal Fraud Prevention, Standard Chartered Bank
Ionela Emmett, Compliance Investigation Team Leader, Financial Crime Team, Commerzbank AG
Nicholas Clark, Head of Data Science, Card & Payment Fraud Prevention, Danske Bank
ESG PRICING
Session details
- Defining target and scope
- Accounting for assets under different accounting regimes
- De-incentivizing financing products not supportive of climate change
- The importance for firms to effectively price ESG products
- Integrating ESG scores into pricing
CREDIT RISK AND CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Session details
- Enhanced international financial framework: public sector support to the economy through commercial banks via risk sharing between banks and policy-driven financial institutions (Multilateral Development Banks, MDBs)
- Helping banks overcome regulatory constraints such as high capitalization of certain exposures and/or market gaps caused by presence of asymmetric information between borrowers and lenders
- Ways for capital relief and transfer of financial loss for banks
Denitsa Berkhoff, Head of Strategic and Market Risk Management, European Investment Fund, part of the European Investment Bank Group
CLIMATE STRESS TEST – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Managing data challenges
- Modeling long term risks
- Inclusion of climate risks within capital framework
- Scenario analysis on climate risks
- Banking requirements to incorporate climate risk into internal stress tests
- Incorporating stress testing results into risk appetite frameworks
- Leveraging various data channels when conducting stress tests
- Reviewing results of biannual exploratory scenario
Vincent Noinville, Chief Risk Officer, Tandem Money Ltd
Ashish Bansal, Head of Finance and Regulatory Reporting, Union Bank of India (UK) Ltd
Doug Baird, Head of Climate Risk Analytics and Pension Risk, NatWest Markets
Ying Poikonen, Executive Director – Head of Modelling Group EMEA Region, Sumitomo Mitsu Banking Corporation
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3:40 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
CLOUD
Session details
- Managing global disparities in regulatory view
- Aligning expectations across jurisdictions
- Implementation for back office and central functions
- Concentration risks if cloud service provider goes down
- Managing security risks when using cloud technology
CREDIT PROCESSING
Session details
- Identifying credible transition plans
- Assessing ESG status of clients
- Defining minimum transaction and information requirements
- Validating submissions to mitigate greenwashing
- Impact of requirements to funding
Isabelle Young, ESG Credit Director, Lloyds Banking Group
ESG
Session details
- Understanding what to report and how
- Reviewing scope of regulation
- The road to net zero
- Managing transitory risks
- Modeling and data requirements
- Understanding new metrics
- Managing ambiguity around net zero and expectations
Sophie Dupre-Echeverria, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, GIB Asset Management
REPUTATION RISK
Session details
- Reputation risks within ESG
- Managing reputation as public opinion evolves
- Impact of geopolitical tensions and operating in certain regions
- Social media risks
Yulia Chugueva, Head of Operational Risk, Banca Intesa
INTEREST RATES
Session details
- Addressing the increased volatility and uncertainty on over leveraged business’
- Managing post-pandemic pressures on interest rates
- Correlation between inflation and interest rates
- How reviewing interest rates could impact economic growth
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CREDIT RISK
Session details
- Developing standardized processes
- Managing increase in overleveraged companies
- Managing credit risk pressures caused by increased interest rates
- Addressing credit weaknesses as a result of pandemic government support
- Managing the risk to a bank caused by Non-Performing Loans
- Leveraging stress tests to effectively anticipate emerging credit risks
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5:30 Chair’s closing remarks | 5:40 End of day 1 and networking drinks reception

8:00 Registration and breakfast | 8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
EMERGING RISKS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Managing geopolitical instability
- Impact of changes to sanctions landscape
- Use of economic warfare and impact to geopolitical tensions
- Cyber as an emerging war threat
- Managing business relationships between different jurisdictions
- The use of economic sanctions to restrict funding to a jurisdiction
Jeff Simmons, Chief Risk Officer, MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.
Cecilia Gejke, Chief Risk Officer, East-West United Bank S.A
Mark Chaplin, UK Life Chief Risk Officer, Aviva Plc
RESILIENCE
Session details
- Exploring banking resiliency in the face of the pandemic
- Building flexible and agile processes to better adapt and respond
- Grasping opportunities offered by Technology
- Re-focusing the business model to drive sustainable performance and achieve better customer outcomes
Hanna Sarraf, Chief Risk Officer, Starling International
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10:10 Morning refreshment break and networking

DATA GOVERNANCE
Session details
- Managing stakeholders and control requirements
- Developing strong governance and operating models
- Simplification of infrastructure
- Sustainability through multiyear simplification and change programs
- Reviewing the impact of Covid-19 data
Lena Young, Head of EMEA Treasury and Liquidity Risk, Credit Suisse
MODEL RISK
Session details
- Challenges using Covid data in models
- Managing operational risk of models
- Ensuring model alignment across jurisdictions in a global bank
- Credibility of older models in the everchanging environment
- Maintaining the building of effective models whilst working from home
Catarina Souza, Senior Expert Model Risk Management, ING
ESG – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Overcoming a lack of market data for ESG
- How should the boards approach reporting on ESG?
- Reputational risk associated with a business’s activities
- Integrating an ESG risk appetite into processes
- Effectively managing carbon reduction on a bank’s balance sheet
- Implementing a commercial strategy around ESG
Jean Meyer, Chief Risk Officer, BNP Paribas
Maciej Lewandowski, Head of Risk Poland, NatWest
Anita McBain, Managing Director, Head of ESG Research, EMEA, Citi

OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE
Session details
- Managing data pools and designing systems
- Simplifying infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities
- Changes to operational risk scenarios in the face of the pandemic
- Divergence across jurisdictions
- Approaches to third parties
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VENDOR RISK
Session details
- Managing concentration risks to limited vendors
- Identifying and mitigating risks
- Ensuring robust risk assessments
- Requirements to manage vendor risks
- Developing exit and business continuity plans
Anita Barber, Head of Third Party Management Services, HSBC
COVID-19 – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Implementation of business continuity plans
- Provision of critical functions to maintain operations
- Adapting to changes in consumer behavior as a result of Covid
- The role of operational risk in a post Covid environment
- Identifying and updating strategy in light of Covid-19
Sean Titley, Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk, Metro Bank
Juergen Wienes, Member of the Managing Board, Airbus Bank GmbH
Sucharita Banerjee Lodha, Head of Operational Risk and Governance, International GI, AIG

STRESS TESTING
Session details
- Enhancing models, methodologies and expertise
- Incorporating regulatory and business drivers into stress testing
- Sensitivity measures for business strategies and market reactions
- Incorporating into risk appetite framework
- Enhanced scenario shocks modelling (granularity, methodologies and plausibility)
Sunil Verma, Head of Market Risk Stress Testing Methodology, UBS
LIQUIDITY RISK
Session details
- How computer trading increases the risk of liquidity black holes
- How quantitative easing has made it more difficult to introduce liquidity to the market
- Liquidity implications caused by adjustments to financial asset prices
- Long term liquidity risks caused by price adjustments
- Managing the impact CRR2 regulation has on liquidity
Suresh Sankaran, Head of Model Risk, Validation & Governance, Metro Bank
IRRBB – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Requirements on credit spread risk in the banking book
- Managing the impact of interest rate risk on the banking book
- Maneuvering the interest rate in the banking book regulatory environment
- Evolution of interest rate in the banking book
Zoltan Bendiner, Head of Financial Risk, Atom Bank (TBC)
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12:45 Lunch break and networking
NET ZERO
Session details
- Choosing an appropriate Net Zero pathway
- Determining financed emissions in a transparent manner
- Engaging internal stakeholders in a collective journey
Gianluca Cantalupi, Global Head of Reputational, Sustainability and Climate Risk, Credit Suisse (TBC)
CBDC – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Maintaining balance sheet and deposit inflows
- Adapting operational models
- Maintaining customers through digital products
- Alternative ways of structuring balance sheet
- Transition capacities of central bank money
- Managing and limiting volatility in pricing
Aleksi Grym, Head of Digitalisation, Bank of Finland
Katey Neate, Chief Risk Officer Asset Servicing and Digital, BNY Mellon
MODEL RISK
Session details
- Reviewing the impact a crisis has on existing models
- Managing the various model risk reactions during a crisis
- Creating an effective model risk framework based on previous crisis’
- Approaches to detect, mitigate and repair the model risk that is caused by a crisis
- Application to crisis including COVID-19 pandemic consequences
- From White to Black Swans and beyond, categorization of changes
Gilles Artaud, Head of Model Risk Audit, Credit Agricole CIB
RISK APPETITE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Incorporating non-financial risks
- Developing synthetic indicators for compliance and operational risks
- Transparency from senior management
- Building a complete and transparent framework
- Redesigning indicators to present risks to the board
Jeremy Arnold, Chief Risk Officer, NatWest Markets
Carlos Martin, Executive Director – CIB Markets Operational Risk Management, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Adrian Burbanks, Deputy General Manager, London Branch, Agriculuture Bank of China
CAPITAL FRAMEWORKS
Session details
- Incorporating climate risk into capital framework
- Changes to CRR 3
- Cross border requirements and approvals
- Standardizing treatment of activity across jurisdictions
- Efficient capital management amidst uncertainty
Neels Vosloo, Director, EMEA Capital Policy and Advocacy, Bank of America Merill Lynch
FRTB – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Impact of continued delays
- Global alignment of standards and timelines
- Qualification at trading desk level
- Reviewing capital benefits of internal models
- Qualitative and quantitative requirements for model approval
- Managing the EU’s CRR3 and CRD6 proposals
Etienne Varloot, Global Head MCR, Credit Agricole CIB
Thomas Hougaard, Director, Head of FRTB Programme and Nordea Markets Strategy Owner for FRTB, Nordea
Suman Data, Head of Portfolio Quantitative Research, Lloyds Banking Group
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3:10 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
CRYPTOCURRENCY
Session details
- Developing regulations for cryptocurrency
- Updating capital frameworks to include crypto asset exposure
- Sanctions and regulations preventing trade
- Monitoring the security and integrity of digital currencies
- Increased need for digitalization in order to incorporate digital currencies
Katey Neate, Chief Risk Officer Asset Servicing and Digital, BNY Mellon
RISK IDENTIFICATION
Session details
- Natural default to visible risks
- Managing highly probable and highly impactful threats
- Leveraging stress testing as a tool for risk identification
- Early warning indicators of risk
- Effectively assessing and scanning potential future threats
- Avoiding bias when assessing and identifying risk
Mauricio Masondo, Managing Director, Cit
FINANCIAL CRIME
Session details
- Exchange of information across jurisdictions and organizations
- Leveraging data to identify levels of risk
- Identifying beneficial ownership
- Managing the escalations of issues relating to money laundering
- Increasing the visibility at board level for governance of AML
- Managing tensions and sanctions between US, EU and Russia
ERM
Session details
- Managing your business using the new COSO framework
- Requirements for technical tooling
- Incorporating strategic risk into a systems
- Managing your enterprise risk framework to set risk appetite
NON-PERFORMING LOANS
Session details
- Impact on loans and asset quality
- Reviewing adequacy of provisioning credit
- Maintaining a cautious approach to provisions
- Treatment of loans under government support measures
- Credit deterioration as support measures unravel
Varun Kumar Singh, Head – Corporate Lending, Union Bank of India UK
LIBOR
Session details
- Immediate consequences of the cessation of Libor
- Migrating all contracts over to new rate
- Treatment of IBORs
- Reflecting credit risk within rates
- Managing market manipulation
- 2023 Dollar transition and what to expect
- The impact of rising interest rates on LIBOR transition
Chia Tan, Director, Counterparty Model Risk Management, Bank of America
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5:00 Chair’s closing remarks | 5:10 End of Risk EMEA 2022


Fabrice Brossart
Chief Risk Officer, General Insurance and International
AIG
Fabrice Brossart is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for AIG International General Insurance and oversees AIG’s risk management function in 70+ entities outside of North America, ensuring these operations have a risk management system proportionate to their exposures and in line with local regulatory and corporate governance requirements.
Fabrice joined AIG in February 2011 as Chief Actuary for the European region, subsequently taking additional responsibilities for risk management and leading the Solvency II program. Between 2014 and 2015 Fabrice worked in several risk management roles at the AIG head office in New York, enhancing significantly the Group capital model. Returning to London in 2016, Fabrice played a key role in AIG’s response to Brexit and the standing up of AIG Europe SA. More recently he has focused on business resilience, risk culture and conduct, climate risk and transformation.
An alumnus of France’s Ecole Polytechnique, Fabrice holds actuarial qualifications in France and the UK as well as the Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary designation. Previous employers include AXA Insurance UK and Willis Towers Watson. Fabrice has represented AIG at the CRO Forum and supported two AIG Group CEOs in their engagement with the Geneva Association. He is a member of AIG’s Executive Diversity Council and has co-led ERM’s Diversity and Inclusion Council since 2017. Fabrice was named CRO of the year by Insurance ERM in January 2018.

Cecilia Gejke
Chief Risk Officer
East-West United Bank S.A
Cecilia Gejke has a background in Material Physics and renewable energy sources prior to joining the world of Finance. Cecilia has held various leadership roles within Risk Management and capital & liquidity management at financial institutions both in London and Europe, gaining a broad experience across investment, retail and private banking products and cultures. Cecilia has a proven track record of designing and delivering efficient risk management frameworks to drive business performance.

Jeff Simmons
Chief Risk Officer
MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V.
Jeff Simmons joined MUFG Bank in June 2014 as the Head of Enterprise Risk, tasked with creating the function. He has been involved intensively with the enhancement of the Risk Management framework in MUFG Bank (Europe). This has involved him in the formation of an Enterprise Risk function in Amsterdam tasked with delivering the full range of regulatory submissions. In April 2018 he transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the CRO for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).
Prior to joining the bank he spent some 20 years specializing in best practice Risk Management including Market Risk, Credit Risk, Risk Model Validation and Regulatory Risk consulting. As well as have line management responsibilities in various institutions he has also gained extensive experience in implementing Risk Management frameworks from both a technical and operating model based perspective.

Mark Chaplin
UK Life Chief Risk Officer
Aviva Plc

David Glendinning
Chief Risk Officer and Head of Risk UK
Société Générale

Hanna Sarraf
Chief Risk Officer
Starling International
Hanna Sarraf is a seasoned risk executive, with over twenty years’ experience in leading and implementing risk management frameworks that deliver effective results in the financial services industry. He is currently the Chief Risk Officer at Starling International and was previously the Group Chief Risk Officer at Bankmed, a regional corporate, retail and private banking organisation with operations across the EMEA region. Prior to joining Bankmed, Hanna was the Head of Risk Strategy at Bank of Ireland Group and previously held senior risk and regulatory management consulting roles at KPMG, Accenture and Ernst & Young in the UK and globally.
Hanna holds a Specialised Master’s degree in Financial Engineering from the École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) and an MSc in Finance from Dauphine University in France. He has authored many articles on financial risk management and is a frequent speaker at leading UK and international conferences.

Ebbe Negenman
Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Executive Board
Knab
Ebbe Negenman is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of Knab. As a member of the executive board of Knab is co-responsible for the management of the bank. He has over 20 year’s of experience in risk management. Till 2017 Ebbe worked as Head of Regulatory Risk at ABN Amro and was highly involved in the innovation of the sector. Till 2010 Ebbe was employed as a Managing Director Risk Management at ING Bank in Amsterdam and was several years based in the Real Estate division, and in Hong Kong where he had responsibility for the Asia Pacific region. He started his career at the Dutch merchant bank MeesPierson in the market risk management area. Ebbe has two MSc’s (mathematics and econometrics) and a PhD in Operations Research and considers the ability to learn faster than your competitors as the only sustainable competitive advantage. He therefore made learning a way of living.


Stuart Burns
Head of Model Development and Validation
Former Bank of England (tbc)
Stuart Burns currently has the role of Senior Technical Specialist at the PRA, working in the team reviewing and approving IRB models. He has responsibility for aspiring IRB firms. He previously ran the IRB risk weight analysis in the Annual Cyclical Scenario (ACS) stress test, challenging firms’ stressed projections and recommending capital responses.
Stuart has over 20 years experience delivering credit risk, stress testing and economic capital models. This includes roles as:
Head of Model Validation for S&P Europe.
Head of Models for the Rainbow Business at Royal Bank of Scotland.
Head of Credit Risk Methodology at Barclays Capital, where he rebuilt the team following the departure of the previous head, and managed all IRB related regulatory issues.
Head of Corporate Analytics at HSBC, where he was responsible for Credit Risk Modelling and saw the bank achieve Advanced IRB status. He also introduced credit risk stress testing and economic capital.
Head of Economic Capital and Model Risk Management at Standard Chartered Bank, where his responsibilities included building an offshore validation team, and coordination of stress testing across portfolios and risk types. Advanced IRB status was delivered on the strength of these areas.

Gianluca Cantalupi
Global Head of Reputational, Sustainability and Climate Risk
Credit Suisse (tbc)
Gianluca Cantalupi will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Francis Gross
Senior Advisor
European Central Bank
Francis Gross is Senior Adviser in the Directorate General Statistics of the European Central Bank.
Francis’ main interest lies in developing vision, conceptual design and strategy for sustainable digitalisation of the economy, with a focus on effective measurement. His immediate aim is to design and drive concrete, feasible measures with transformational power, e.g. global, public-good digital infrastructure to make the system adequately measurable and more efficient. Starting in 2006 he initiated the movement that led to the G20-backed Global Legal Entity Identifier System, where he serves on the Regulatory Oversight Committee.
Before joining the ECB in 2001, Francis spent fifteen years in automotive, eight at Mercedes, working on globalisation.
He holds an engineering degree from École Centrale, Paris, and an MBA from Henley Management College, UK
In his free time, Francis coaches athletes for javelin throwing, including the current decathlon world champion.

Aleksi Grym
Head of Digitalisation
Bank of Finland
Aleksi Grym is Head of Digitalisation at the Bank of Finland. He manages a portfolio of cross-departmental projects related to the digital transformation of the financial industry, covering topics such as FinTech, payment technologies, digital currencies, and cyber security. Before joining the Finnish central bank he worked in the consulting and technology investment industry for 15 years in London and Helsinki.

Katey Neate
Chief Risk Officer Asset Servicing and Digital
BNY Mellon
Katey Neate is a Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer for Asset Servicing & Digital at BNY Mellon. In this capacity, she is responsible for the oversight and challenge of the Bank’s biggest business, from strategy to product development and change management. Additionally, she leads all risk and compliance activities for the enterprise in the digital assets space, including the design and implementation of an enterprise risk framework, and global regulatory engagement. Leveraging her extensive risk management expertise, Katey collaborates across all regions and functions, including operations, product and relationship management, to support BNY Mellon’s development of market-leading digital asset capabilities.

Catarina Souza
Senior Expert Model Risk Management
ING
Catarina has over 15 years of working experience, including leading multicultural international teams successfully delivering cross-border projects in the areas of credit risk and model risk management.
Since joining ING in 2019, Catarina responsibilities included the model risk management framework implementation globally within the bank and, recently, the model risk management strategy.
Prior to joining ING, Catarina worked with S&P Global Market Intelligence, overseeing numerous clients across EMEA and the Americas, managing the development, implementation, maintenance and validation of credit risk models focusing on both high- and low-default portfolios.

Isabelle Young
ESG Credit Director
Lloyds Banking Group
Isabelle Young is an ESG Credit Director at Lloyds Banking Group, focusing on the identification and articulation of key ESG risks and opportunities, at a portfolio and sector level, using this knowledge to develop strategy, policy and appetite. She has been with Lloyds Banking Group for 7 years, across a diverse range of roles including Relationship Management, Markets, Credit and Risk, specialising in recent years on Private Equity clients.

Lena Young
Head of EMEA Treasury and Liquidity Risk
Credit Suisse
Lena is EMEA Head of Treasury and Liquidity Risk at Credit Suisse since July 2021. Prior to her current role, she was Head of Audit Liquidity and Funding, also at Credit Suisse. Previous roles include Global Head of Liquidity Reporting and Analytics in Barclays Group Treasury, responsible for all liquidity regulatory reporting to the PRA and global MI reporting, and European Head of Treasury Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley. Lena holds a degree in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics, majoring in Financial Economics and Econometrics.

Stephane Malrait
Head of Market Structure & Innovation
ING Bank NV
Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is working with advocacy groups, policy makers and regulators to follow market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is also leading innovation activities in the capital market space within ING and developing external partnership with Fintech companies. He actively contributes in industry working groups to represent ING Bank.
Stéphane joined ING in 2015 to lead the bank e-commerce initiatives across all financial market products and to develop the financial market group’s cross-asset ecommerce strategy. Before joining ING, Stephane spent eight years at Société Générale, where he was Global Head of FIC eCommerce, creating an eCommerce business covering credit, rates, money market, emerging market and FX. Prior to this, Stéphane worked at JPMorgan Chase for ten years, serving in different roles in Global FX E-Commerce Business Management and cross-asset eCommerce technology and was based in London and New York.
Stephane has a strong background in financial markets and understands the need for continued technological development to drive positive change in trading and market structure workflows. He is leading ING Financial Market innovation strategy and working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the clients trading activity and transform how trading floor operates.
Stephane is also an advisor or board member for several Fintech initiatives and trading associations in Fixed income and FX. Since 2005 he has been active with the ACI Financial Market Association – an international non-profit organisation that represents the interests of market professionals in foreign exchange and money markets. He chairs the ACI FX committee since 2010 and joined ACI FMA board in 2020. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group and co-chair the BIS Global FX code of conduct Algo and TCA sub-group.

Mauricio Masondo
Managing Director
Citi
Mauricio Masondo will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Anita McBain
Managing Director, Head of ESG Research, EMEA
Citi
Anita McBain will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Nicolae Mera
Head of EMEA Market Risk Analytics
Morgan Stanley
Nicolae is the EMEA Head of Market Risk Analytics at Morgan Stanley, leading model development for regulatory and risk management models for market risk. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2018 Nicolae has led the Quantitative Risk & Capital Strategies team within the risk methodology team at Credit Suisse and has held positions in proprietary trading (systematic trading) and academia (computational fluid dynamics research). Nicolae holds a PhD in applied mathematics and has over 15 years’ experience in quantitative modelling as applied to market risk, systematic trading, applied mathematics and engineering.

Jean Meyer
Chief Risk Officer
BNP Paribas
Jean Meyer will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Anshu Khanna
Managing Director, Head of Risk Controls
Barclays
Anshu Khanna will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Libor Krkoska
Deputy Head, Country Strategy
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Libor Krkoška has been Deputy Director, Country Strategy at the EBRD since November 2018. He joined the EBRD in 1997, initially working in the Chief Economist Office and then as the Head of Office in Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Cyprus. Before coming to the EBRD, Libor was a researcher in the Economic Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 1994, and, prior to that, worked for Česka Pojistovna, the largest Czech insurance company. Libor holds a Ph.D. in Economics from CERGE-EI in Prague, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and obtained a Masters degree in Mathematics from Charles University in Prague.

Amit Lakhani
Head of Third Party Risk Management, CIB
BNP Paribas
Amit Lakhani has varied experiences in managing operational risks at organisations of all sizes. He started his career working as a consultant with Accenture where he developed and deployed multi-million dollar programmes involving compliance and risk elements, especially information security and cyber risks. Further, Amit worked at large multinational organisations in his role at KPMG driving strategic decision-making, investments and risk reduction programmes.
In his current role, Amit looks after IT risks, third party/vendor risk management and fraud risks across the Corporate and Institutional Banking division for BNP Paribas. Increasingly, he is converging the management of all such transversal operational risk topics into Operational Resilience and therefore OpRes is becoming a key priority for him. He has been a key contributor to the CIB OpRes programme and provided oversight and supervision on the topic through his second line of defence role.

Maciej Lewandowski
Head of Risk Poland
NatWest
Maciej is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income, combined with experience of regulatory topics and passion for tackling the climate transformation.
He joined NatWest Markets in June 2020 where he’s primarily responsible for setting up and managing risk hub to support investment banking of NatWest Group.
Before (since June 2014) he worked in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision one of the largest banks in the Netherlands. As JST Coordinator, he led risk identification and implementation of risk-based and forward-looking Supervisory Examination Program. He took part in the start-up phase that included recruitment as well as fine-tuning of tools and processes.
Prior to the ECB, Maciej worked in various roles in a number of banks: PKO Bank Polski 2008-2014 (Head of Credit Risk Assessment Department, member of Bank’s Credit Committee, Advisor to CEO), HSBC 2008 (Head of Structured Finance) and Citi in Poland and Hungary 1996-2008 (Debt Capital Markets, Derivatives Sales, Financial Control).
Maciej has graduated from Warsaw School of Economics and holds a Master Degree in Banking and Finance. He is a speaker and panelist at conferences on risk and regulatory outlook topics.


Jeremy Arnold
Chief Risk Officer
NatWest Markets
Jeremy is NatWest Markets’ Chief Risk Officer, having joined the bank in 2018. He has an extensive experience as a trader and risk manager. His roles in risk management include running regional and global market risk teams at a variety of firms including Commerzbank, UBS, Investec and Nomura, and the role of Chief Risk Officer, EMEA at Nomura since 2015.
Jeremy holds a Masters in Economics Cambridge University.

Gilles Artaud
Head of Group Model Risk Audit
Credit Agricole Group
Gilles Artaud has been working in investment banking since last century, where he held various positions within Quant, Front Office, IT and Risk Department, working all along on many models, quant developing, managing, validating them, making sure their risks are adequately managed. He’s now in charge for the 3rd line of defence of Model Risk Audit for Group Inspection in Group Crédit Agricole SA, dealing with transformation of risk induced by new models, framework, market and business evolutions, new fields of modelisation and compliance with ever-increasing regulations.

Anita Barber
Head of Third Party Management Services
HSBC
I obtained a degree in Law with the dream to bring change, drive innovation and argue my views. After completing law school, I realised that was certainly not the career for me. I signed up to an internship programme in New York and worked on the world’s largest trading floor – UBS Stamford Connecticut. This is where I found my passion for Banking. Following this I worked at Barclays, KPMG and joined HSBC 5 years ago. In these 5 years I have developed specialist knowledge in Vendor management with particular focus on Third Party Risk. The landscape for TPR is forever changing but what interests me the most is sustainability. We all have a huge role to play in achieving net zero targets, so within my capacity I am working to measure HSBC’s supply chain carbon emissions. Alongside this, I am actively involved in a number of coaching and mentoring programmes and also run a Diversity and Inclusion working group.

Fabrice Brossart
Chief Risk Officer, General Insurance and International
AIG
Fabrice Brossart is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) for AIG International General Insurance and oversees AIG’s risk management function in 70+ entities outside of North America, ensuring these operations have a risk management system proportionate to their exposures and in line with local regulatory and corporate governance requirements.
Fabrice joined AIG in February 2011 as Chief Actuary for the European region, subsequently taking additional responsibilities for risk management and leading the Solvency II program. Between 2014 and 2015 Fabrice worked in several risk management roles at the AIG head office in New York, enhancing significantly the Group capital model. Returning to London in 2016, Fabrice played a key role in AIG’s response to Brexit and the standing up of AIG Europe SA. More recently he has focused on business resilience, risk culture and conduct, climate risk and transformation.
An alumnus of France’s Ecole Polytechnique, Fabrice holds actuarial qualifications in France and the UK as well as the Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary designation. Previous employers include AXA Insurance UK and Willis Towers Watson. Fabrice has represented AIG at the CRO Forum and supported two AIG Group CEOs in their engagement with the Geneva Association. He is a member of AIG’s Executive Diversity Council and has co-led ERM’s Diversity and Inclusion Council since 2017. Fabrice was named CRO of the year by Insurance ERM in January 2018.

Adrian Burbanks
Deputy General Manager, London Branch
Agricultural Bank of China
Adrian has over 35 years of experience in International Finance, specializing in Risk Management and business strategy. His career included 12 years working in Japan and has encompassed roles with major investment banks and other international financial institutions managing teams across Europe and in the US. His product experience includes Real Estate, Emerging Markets, Capital Markets, Structured Derivatives and International Finance. In his current role he is responsible for overseeing the risk and compliance functions at Agricultural Bank of China’s London Branch where he holds SM4 regulatory responsibilities.

Yulia Chugueva
Head of Operational Risk
Banca Intesa
Yulia Chugueva will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Nicholas Clark
Head of Data Science, Card & Payment Fraud Prevention
Danske Bank
Nick Clark heads the Fraud Prevention analytics and data science area covering payment fraud and card fraud at Danske Bank in Copenhagen. He has previously worked in quantitative asset management functions in London with previous consulting and core banking experience from both the UK and Denmark. Nick holds separate master’s degrees in Economics (2003) and Bioinformatics (2014). He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. He joined Danske Bank in Copenhagen in 2019 as a chief data scientist and has over the past 18 months help mature the data science area in collaboration with his wonderful team.

Nicola Crawford
Chief Risk Officer
National Bank of Kuwait International
Nicola Crawford will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
GIB Asset Management
Sophie is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for driving an effective risk culture throughout the company, designing the risk and compliance frameworks and overseeing risk management and regulatory compliance practices. Sophie joined GIB UK with extensive experience in the field, having previously served as Executive Director for Compliance and Operational Risk Control at UBS Asset Management. Before this, she was Global Head of Operational Risk at Barings, and non-Executive Director of the Baring-Coller Secondaries Fund. Sophie was also an Operational Risk Manager and the Group Head of Investment Risk Framework at Schroders.

Ionela Emmett
Compliance Investigation Team Leader, Financial Crime Team
Commerzbank AG
With over 10 years of experience in the financial crime field including fraud investigations and AML, Ionela is currently a leading the Compliance Investigation team and acts as a Financial Crime Advisor at Commerzbank, managing complex investigations across different business platforms. She previously worked in a similar role at Citibank NA. Ionela is a Certified Fraud Examiner and has also trained with the Analysis Training Unit at Greater Manchester Police. Ionela’s particular specialty is investigations into the utilisation of complex corporate networks for financial crime purposes.

John Keogan
Head, Fraud Risk – Internal Fraud Prevention
Standard Chartered Bank
John has spent his career fighting fraud across multiple sectors, working within both Fraud Investigations and Fraud Risk Advisory. An active member of the Anti-Fraud community, John supports Fraud Risk Reduction via his drive for greater collaboration between risk professionals, enhanced awareness of emerging risks, and the blended use of digital and analogue tools. John is currently the Head of Internal Fraud Risk Prevention at Standard Chartered Bank.

Sucharita Banerjee Lodha
Head of Operational Risk and Governance, International GI
AIG
Sucharita Banerjee Lodha is the Head of General Insurance International Operational Risk and Governance, ERM . She has held various operational risk management positions within GI International supporting effective roll out of operational risk management tools and concepts within Claims, Finance, Operations and shared service centres. She has led teams across Business Consulting, Outsourcing Risk management, Offshore Development Centers, Technology and Risk Management. She has a proven track record of managing global teams and leading regulatory change initiatives. Sucharita holds an MBA from London Business School and an MS in Quality Management from Birla Institute of technology. She is also a six sigma Black belt and has a B.tech in Information Technology. She chose non-financial risk management as a career to pursue her passion for healthy risk culture in organizations. She has worked with Deloitte, American Express, Tata Consultancy Services in her professional career. She has worked with consulting and Financial services firms in India, the US and is currently based in London, UK. Sucharita is also the chair of Gender Equality Matters Employee resource group in AIG.

Carlos Martin
Executive Director – CIB Markets Operational Risk Management
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Carlos Martin FRM Msc BBA is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Global Head of CIB Markets Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities Operatonal Risk Management. He has 25 years’ industry experience having previously worked at Morgan Stanley, CIBC, BNP Paribas, UBS, RBS NatWest Markets and EY in roles across Trading, Technology, Finance, Market Risk, Operational Risk and Audit.
Carlos collaborates with the Council for International Securities and Investment (CISI), the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA) and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). He is a certified Financial Risk Manager, holds a Master of Science in Finance by the University of Syracuse, New York, a Bachelor of Business Administration by the Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, and Academic Qualifications in Economics, Computer Programming, Market Risk and Operational Risk.

Vikas Munshi
Enterprise Security Architect
ING Bank
Vikas is a cyber security professional, a banker, and a creative technologist with over two decades of IT security experience. Currently Vikas works for the global CISO office of ING where he is architecting the future security state of Workplace and DevOps. Besides work, Vikas is into long walks with his Siberian Husky with whom he shares a deep fascination for the wonders of Nature.

Jayaraj Puthanveedu
Managing Director – Cyber & Technology Risk/Group Operational Risk Management
BNP Paribas
Jayaraj Puthanbeedu will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Gary Savill
Head of Enterprise Risk
SAGA
Gary Savill is Head of Enterprise Risk for Saga Group and has over 12 years of extensive risk management expertise, working previously in general and medical insurance for AXA UK for 10 years and as Deputy Head of Operations for Sanlam Investment Management for 4 years. Gary is a Chartered Management Accountant, qualifying whilst working for Nestle UK and is also a Specialist member of the IRM and member of the Institute of Management.
Gary have extensive experience of Solvency II operational risk capital, risk and control frameworks, risk appetite, conduct risk, risk culture, third party risk oversight and building high performance teams. He has a particular interest in psychology and decision making.

Juergen Wienes
Member of the Managing Board
Airbus Bank GmbH
Sean has over 25 years of experience in Risk Management across disciplines, including Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Strategic Risk and Front Office Supervision. He is a passionate advocate for the furtherance of Operational Risk as a discipline, co-authoring papers and acting as a speaker and panellist at many external events.
Sean has held Director level roles at a number of organisations, both on a consultancy and permanent basis. He is currently Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk at Metro Bank, running a growing team responsible for the Bank’s overall risk management framework and approach to Operational Risk from a second line perspective. This includes liaison with the PRA and FCA and making ongoing enhancements to the Bank’s approach to risk appetite, governance and embedding a strong risk culture across the three lines of defence. Sean has been integral to a transformation in the Bank’s approach, including putting in place a new Risk Taxonomy, Bank Risk Report, approach to RCSA, Control Testing, Operational Risk losses and Scenario Analysis as well as setting up a new Operational Risk Oversight Committee, which he chairs. His team is working closely with the first line on approaches to Operational Resilience, Third Party Risk Management and the management of People, Change, Data, Information Security and Technology Risks.
Sean is a member of the Institute of Operational Risk/IRM Operational Risk Committee, providing advice on its approach to Operational Risk and running the IOR’s Chapters across the globe.


Jeremy Arnold
Chief Risk Officer
NatWest Markets
Jeremy is NatWest Markets’ Chief Risk Officer, having joined the bank in 2018. He has an extensive experience as a trader and risk manager. His roles in risk management include running regional and global market risk teams at a variety of firms including Commerzbank, UBS, Investec and Nomura, and the role of Chief Risk Officer, EMEA at Nomura since 2015.
Jeremy holds a Masters in Economics Cambridge University.

Ashish Bansal
Head of Finance and Regulatory Reporting
Union Bank of India (UK) Ltd
Ashish Bansal, a certified Chartered Accountant from India, is the Head of Finance & Regulatory Reporting in Union Bank of India (UK) Limited. In his 8 years of industry know-how, his range of experiences span from application of operational aspect of conventions at grassroot, to administering and formulating policy blueprints at the executive stratum. His in-depth technical understanding of banking products and demonstrated cognizance of RBI’s as well as Bank of England’s regulatory governance, adds to his industry’s proficiency.

Swati Bansal
Global Head, Market Risk for Credit Business
Goldman Sachs
Swati Bansal will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Doug Baird
Head of Climate Risk Analytics and Pension Risk
Natwest Group
I work in the Financial & Strategic Risk Division within Natwest Group, focussing on the embedding of climate risk analytics within scenario analysis and wider risk decision making. I led the capability build and delivery of the Natwest Group submission in the Bank of England climate stress test (CBES). I am also responsible for Natwest Group’s Pension Risk team and have held various other roles in the bank, including within operational risk capital and pension strategy. Prior to joining Natwest Group I worked for KPMG’s pension consulting business and am a member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

Zoltan Bendiner
Head of Financial Risk
Atom Bank (tbc)
Zoltan Bendiner will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Denitsa Berkhoff
Head of Strategic and Market Risk Management
European Investment Fund, part of the European Investment Bank Group
Denitsa Berkhoff is heading the Strategic and Market Risk Management at the European Investment Fund. Mrs Berkhoff has over 18 years of professional experience in risk management from big commercial banking groups and leading policy-driven institutions. She holds a Master of Science in International Business and a Ph.D. in Economics. Her key competences include capital management and planning, development and optimization of high-level risk strategies. Mrs Berkhoff has an extensive knowledge of the European financial architecture. In the last couple of years, she has closely studied the mechanisms for risk transfer set by the European Institutions to channel public sector support to the economy through collaboration with commercial banks and other financial institutions.

Suman Datta
Head of Portfolio Quantitative Research
Lloyds Banking Group
My team of quants and technologists have responsibility for building trading book models and optimisation and monitoring tools for capital, initial margin, attributions, hedge efficiency, stress testing, valuation adjustments and model risk management. With a hybrid background in quantitative finance, engineering, economics, markets, regulation and business strategy, I have a keen interest in expanding the role and application of data, technology and analytics in new areas of finance especially associated with trends linked to ESG, De-Fi and new business models

Jerome Henry
Principal Advisor
ECB
Jérôme Henry is Principal Adviser at the ECB, in the financial stability area. He led Quality Assurance for SSM stress tests and was a BIS fellow. Originally from the Banque de France, Mr Henry started at the ECB leading its modelling team and thereafter its projection exercise.
Mr Henry has a number of research publications, eg the ECB STAMP€ e-book. An ENSAE graduate, he holds an Economics PhD and a History BA from Paris Sorbonne.

Thomas Hougaard
Director, Head of FRTB Programme and Nordea Markets Strategy Owner for FRTB
Nordea
Thomas is responsible for the FRTB program in Nordea Markets. This covers re-building key elements of the current infrastructure platform to meet the requirements from FRTB. On top of that he is responsible for managing the transition to FRTB owns fonds on behalf of Nordea Markets. Thomas is a vocal and active member to industry forums including the ISDA/AFME trading book group and has worked with FRTB for more than 5 years.

Amit Kalyanaraman
Head of CS AG Liquidity Risk
Credit Suisse
Amit has got extensive Treasury and Risk Management experience with banks across different countries. He has worked with global banks for the last 18 years and his roles have spanned a number of functions. His expertise ranges from funding and liquidity activities at the money market desk to the development of sophisticated risk management analytics, covering Liquidity, Interest Rate Risk, Funds Transfer Pricing and Asset-Liability Management. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Financial Risk Manager.

Vincent Noinville
Chief Risk Officer
Tandem Money Ltd
Vincent has 25 years of risk management experience in Financial Services and Investment Banking across the 3 lines of defence, in France (HSBC and Natixis) and the UK (RBS and Credit Suisse). While he has mostly worked in market risk management across all asset classes, he has also held roles in non-traded market risk, operational risk and audit.
He has recently taken a keen interest in the exciting and fascinating world of Climate Risk, a crucial topic for both the sell-side and the buy-side. He has successfully completed the GARP Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) certificate and contributed to a UNEP-FI paper in Climate Stress testing published in December 2021. Another paper on Sectoral Climate Risks is awaiting publication.
He has recently joined Tandem Bank as Chief Risk Officer.

Ying Poikonen
Executive Director – Head of Modelling Group EMEA Region
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Ying Poikonen will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Suresh Sankaran
Head of Model Risk Governance
Metro Bank
Suresh Sankaran is the head of model risk governance at Metro Bank where he oversees the setting out of the bank’s expectations in respect of practices relating to model governance. Suresh provides oversight to regulatory and statutory requirements and the bank’s high-level approach to achieving compliance. Suresh is responsible for framing the bank’s approach to managing model risk exposure, and is in charge of the bank’s internal framework that controls the processes for model development, validation and usage, assigns responsibilities and roles, and ensures a properly documented approval process for model development, validation, implementation, and use.

Varun Kumar Singh
Head – Corporate Lending
Union Bank of India UK
Varun Kumar Singh is a Senior Credit Professional working in the Banking Industry with 15+ years of experience wherein 11+ years in Corporate Credit. He is presently working as Head – Corporate Lending at Union Bank of India (UK) Ltd. He is Skilled in Syndicated loans, International credit, Trade finance, Project funding, working capital finance for mid and large Corporates. He is a Finance professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) (Finance) and is a Certified Member of IIBF ,APLMA, and CISI.

Chia Tan
Director, Counterparty Model Risk Management
Bank of America
Chia Chiang Tan is Director, Counterparty Model Risk Management at Bank of America.
Previously, Chia was in Market Risk Methodology at Deutsche Bank, where he was responsible for maintaining a tool to test VaR performance. Prior to that, he was at DB Analytics at Deutsche Bank, where his responsibilities covered pricing models in Inflation, and single currency Rates options. Before that, he was at Dresdner Kleinwort, covering short and long-dated FX and Rates Hybrids. Prior to that, he worked on Interest Rates models at Barclays Capital. And he started out at Risk Analytics at CIBC, developing VaR and counterparty models.
Chia is the author of two industry texts: Demystifying Exotic Products, and Market Practice in Financial Modelling.

Etienne Varloot
Global Head of MCR
Credit Agricole CIB
Etienne Varloot will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.

Sunil Verma
Head of Market Risk Stress Testing Methodology
UBS
Sunil heads the market risk stress testing methodology at UBS. He is responsible for developing models used globally across UBS. He is closely engaged in various regulatory projects such as CCAR, EBA Stress Testing, IWST, FINMA Stress Testing etc. He runs a small team based out of London, Krakow and Mumbai.
Sunil is an engineer (undergrad) and MBA. During his career, prior to UBS, he has worked at banks such as ING, RBS, Lloyds and Northern Trust. He enjoys maths, machine learning, watching documentaries on diverse subjects and experimenting with cuisines for Sunday family meals.

Neels Vosloo
Director, EMEA Capital Policy and Advocacy
Bank of America Merill Lynch
Neels Vosloo will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2022.


COUNTERPARTY RISK
Developing accurate metrics to manage counterparty risks
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
Leveraging AI and machine learning capailities and uses within credit portfolios
LIBOR
Lessons learnt frm LIBOR transition and updating contracts
GEOPOLITICAL RISK
Managing long term impacts of geopolitical risks and changes to risk landscape
ESG
Managing ESG changes and implementation of requirements
GOBAL RECOVERY
Impact of volatility on credit risk landscape
REGULATION
Reviewing the global regulatory environment


David Glendinning
CRO UK
Société Generale

Gregoire Babin
Executive Director
JP Morgan

Germar Knöchlein
Head of Division
European Central Bank

Andrea Petreanu
Head of Credit Risk Management
Mizuho International Plc

Chaoxin Zheng
EMEA Head of Scenario Analytics
Morgan Stanley

Rohan Kataria
Head of Traded Risk Stress Testing Execution
HSBC

Pradyumna Javalekar
Head of Credit Portfolio Market Risk
JP Morgan

Emmanuelle Mathey
Co-CRO, Wealth Management
Schroders

There are many opportunities available across the two days at Risk EMEA to gain insightful knowledge from industry experts. There is the opportunity to join a single stream to get a well-rounded two days. Alternatively, there is the option to jump between 3 streams where there are interactive panels with live Q&A’s and presentations. As usual, there will also be an informative one-day Forum running in conjunction with the Risk EMEA Summit. In-between sessions and at our drinks reception there are plenty of opportunities to interact with the speakers and attendees.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Interactive panel discussions are designed to increase attendee interaction by running a live Q&A throughout the session.

PRESENTATIONS
Hear industry experts provide detailed insight on a range of topics, engage one on one with the presenter during the Q&A.

NETWORKING BREAKS
Networking opportunities including breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks on both days, access to all streams and sessions.

MEET THE SPEAKERS
Continue discussions beyond the auditorium and interact with speakers and attendees after their session.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND A CEFPRO CONFERENCE?
HEAR FROM PAST ATTENDEES AND SPEAKERS…


ActiveViam provides precision data analytics tools to help organizations make better decisions faster. ActiveViam started in 2005 with the vision of leveraging in-memory technology to create an analytics platform where businesses could leverage the largest data sets without restrictions, keep them up-to-date in real time and use them to empower their decision makers. Our goal at ActiveViam, is to let organizations not only make decisions faster, but better; to not only reach their data, but their potential; to not only see their data, but find their way into the future.
Founded in 1993 in Kraków, Poland, Comarch prides itself on being one of the leading software houses in Europe with a few thousand employees worldwide and thousands of successful projects carried out for the largest international brands.
With many years of experience in the industry, Comarch Financial Services, a business sector within the Comarch Capital Group, specializes in developing sophisticated software and IT systems for major financial institutions in banking, insurance and capital markets.
Our expertise has gained worldwide recognition and a significant portfolio of clients among insurers, banks, mutual and pension funds, brokerage houses and asset management companies in more than 30 countries.
www.comarch.com/finance
Mirai Advisory is a niche consulting company focused mainly on balance sheet management -ALM, Liquidity, FTP, Capital, etc.- We have been designing and developing End-to-End solutions throughout the world for several years with great success.
In 2016 we decided to go one step forward in our areas of expertise and decided to develop a new generation tool. Our goal was to take full advantage of current technologies through the other companies in our group – BI Geek and Tadaima Studio – in a way that would really create a big step in ALM.
MAT is based on the experience of the real world, in what our clients and ourselves have wanted or dreamed, does not come only from a laboratory.
Fintegral is a specialist quantitative risk consultancy focusing solely on the finance sector. We help our banking clients develop, enhance, and validate their most sophisticated risk models and analytical frameworks, to provide them with a competitive edge.
Our consultants combine exceptional quantitative skills with a deep understanding of financial risk management, and have a business-oriented mindset, allowing us to successfully deliver complex analytical projects.
We have a corporate culture with flat hierarchies, where entrepreneurship is encouraged from all members of our collaborative teams, across our offices in London, Frankfurt and Zurich.
OneTrust Vendorpedia™ is the largest and most widely-used technology platform to operationalize third-party risk. The offering enables both enterprises and their vendors with technology solutions that include: the Third-Party Risk Exchange, a community of shared (and pre-completed) vendor risk assessments with 70,000+ participating vendors; Questionnaire Response Automation, a tool that helps organizations answer incoming security questionnaires; and Third-Party Risk Management software, a platform to streamline the entire vendor lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding. More than 8,000 customers of all sizes use OneTrust, which is powered by 150 awarded patents, to offer the most depth and breadth of any third-party risk, security, and privacy solution in the market. OneTrust Vendorpedia offers purpose-built software designed to help organizations manage vendor relationships with confidence, including and integrates seamlessly with the entire OneTrust platform, including – OneTrust Privacy Management Software, OneTrust DataDiscovery™, OneTrust DataGovernance™, OneTrust GRC, OneTrust Ethics, OneTrust PreferenceChoice™, OneTrust ESG, and OneTrust DataGuidance™.
Protecht is a pioneer of the risk sector. We supercharge organisations through deep understanding, monitoring and management of risk.
Protecht.ERM is an integrated enterprise wide risk management software solution, supported with training and advisory services, for any size organisation across the world.
Dynamically manage all your risks in a single platform: Risks, Compliance, Health and Safety, Internal Audit, Incidents, KRIs, BCP, and more.
Move away from time consuming processes like excel and email.
Have the flexibility to configure your breach and obligation registers and workflows to suit your organisation needs
Engage your organisation in a way and time that suits them through the Protecht.ERM mobile app.
Link important risks across your organisation and highlight systemic issues through central libraries
Communicate effectively and professionally to risk committees, boards and business stakeholders using customisable visual reports
APIs for seamless data connections
No additional costs per module
Be part of the online Protecht risk and compliance community
All your Risk Information in Real Time, in One Place
Avantage Reply (a member of Reply Group) is a pan-European specialised management consultancy delivering change initiatives in Risk, Compliance, Finance (Capital Management and Regulatory Reporting), Treasury and Operations within the Financial Services industry.
Within our core competencies, we have extensive experience in implementing changes driven by:
• Industry-wide legislative and regulatory initiatives (e.g. CRD IV, ring-fencing);
• Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestments (e.g. business combination, separation and flotation); and
• Business improvement and optimisation agendas (e.g. risk appetite and capital allocation)
Since 2004, we have rapidly grown from a UK focused boutique consultancy into a reputable pan-European firm. We continue to adhere to our core philosophy of using innovation and pragmatism in helping firms to deal with complex regulatory and business issues.
We differ from the larger consulting firms in our specialised subject matter focus and have an excellent reputation for delivering on our clients’ most challenging issues.

Elliptic is the global leader in cryptoasset risk management for crypto businesses and financial institutions worldwide.
Recognized as a WEF Technology Pioneer and backed by investors including Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, SBI Group, and Santander Innoventures, Elliptic has assessed risk on transactions worth several trillion dollars, uncovering activities related to money laundering, terrorist fundraising, fraud, and other financial crimes.
Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Singapore, and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Shared Assessments is a global membership organization dedicated to developing the best practices, education and tools to drive third party risk assurance. We are creators of the industry standard third party risk toolkit, used by over 15,000 organizations worldwide.


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SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE…

GET YOUR BRAND SEEN…

CONNECT WITH SENIOR LEADERS…
CAN YOUR ORGANIZATION CONTRIBUTE?
Please contact the Center for Financial Professionals today to discuss how we can deliver your thought-leadership at the event, help you generate leads, and provide you with unique networking and branding opportunities. For more information on what we can offer, please contact chris.simou@cefpro.com or call us on +44 (0) 20 7164 6582 where a member of the team will be happy to tailor the right package for you.

ORX is the largest operational risk association in the financial services sector. Since 2002, we’ve been developing a global community of financial institutions committed to improving the management and measurement of operational risk. We currently have over 100 member organisation based all over the globe.
Owned and driven by our member institutions, we bring together hundreds of operational risk professionals to share their knowledge, expertise and experience of the financial services industry. We are a not-for-profit industry association incorporated in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Tower Hotel, St Katherine’s Way, London, E1W 1LD
Accommodation
We have secured a preferential rate of £195 per night for a single occupancy for our attendees to stay onsite at the Hotel, this would also include a full breakfast and any VAT associated costs. This rate per night is available for the duration of June 12-17 2022, we have a limited number of rooms available so please ensure to book in a timely manner to avoid disappointment.
Please call the number:
020 7523 5063
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Alternative accommodation around surrounding the tower hotel includes:
Hilton London Tower Bridge – 5 More London Riverside, Tooley St, London SE1 2BY
Leonardo Royal London City – Tower Hill – 8-14 Cooper’s Row, London EC3N 2BQ
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel London – Tower of London – 7 Pepys St, Tower, London EC3N 4AF
Premier Inn London City (Tower Hill) Hotel – 22-24 Prescot St, London E1 8BB


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SAVE £300
Registrations before 27 May
£1,798
Registrations after 27 May
CREDIT AND COUNTERPARTY RISK ONLY
£499
SAVE £300
Registrations before 22 April
£699
SAVE £100
Registrations before 27 May
£799
Registrations after 27 May
Representing an information/service provider (E.g. Consultant, Vendor, Executive Search Firm, Law Firm)
RISK EMEA ONLY
Launch
Rate
£1,399
SAVE £600
Registrations before 22 April
Early
Bird
£1,599
SAVE £400
Registrations before 27 May
Standard
Rate
£1,999
Registrations after 27 May
RISK EMEA AND CREDIT AND COUNTERPARTY RISK
£2,198
SAVE £800
Registrations before 22 April
£2,498
SAVE £500
Registrations before 27 May
£2,998
Registrations after 27 May
CREDIT AND COUNTERPARTY RISK ONLY
£799
SAVE £200
Registrations before 22 April
£899
SAVE £100
Registrations before 27 May
£999
Registrations after 27 May
*To qualify for the preferential ‘early bird’ rates, registration must be received by the close of the ‘early bird’ working day, and payment can be made at the time of registering, or up to a week after registration is made an invoice sent. CeFPro reserves the right to increase rates should payment be delayed significantly. Should a delegate register at a rate that is inaccurate, CeFPro reserves the right to issue an additional invoice for the outstanding amount.
Covid Assurance Policy
If you are unable to attend the Summit due to national/Covid restrictions, CeFPro would be more than happy to offer you a refund, credit note or the option to transfer the ticket to a colleague who is able to attend.
REGISTER BY EMAIL
Simply email us with your
Full name
Job title
Company & address
Contact number
Email: amy.greene@cefpro.com

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