Risk Americas 2019

8th Annual Risk and Regulation Convention

May TBC, 2019 | New York City

Key topics addressed at the 2018 Convention:

STREAM ONE

Innovation in Risk Management

Technological advances
AI and business benefits
Machine learning
FinTech collaboration, disruption and partnerships
Payments: technology, competition and blockchain
AML and fraud
Cloud and data

STREAM TWO

Liquidity Risk and Funding

Intraday requirements and business opportunities
FTP
NSFR
Recovery and resolution
Liquidity and capital management
CLAR requirements
Lines of defense in liquidity risk

STREAM THREE

Risk Modeling

CECL: parallel runs and modeling
Documentation and communication
Stress tests: CCAR & DFAST
PPNR
Modeling: techniques and validation
Data challenges
Modeling across the enterprise
Beyond validation

STREAM FOUR

Operational and Enterprise Risk

Risk culture and conduct
Vendor and third party risk
Cyber security
Data, business lines and taxonomy
Lines of defense
Operational risk modeling
Disaster recovery planning
Fraud management

Key highlights of the 2018 Convention:

Thank you to our 400+ attendees and speakers for making Risk Americas 2018 a success.

2018 featured over 100 speakers

Nicholas Silitch

Group CRO

Prudential

Paul Marchetti

CRO & Chief Credit Officer

BankNewport

Denise Pickett

CRO & Global Banking Group President

American Express

James Costa

Chief Risk and Credit Officer

TCF Bank

Philippa Girling

CRO

Investors Bank

Joshua Rosenberg

CRO

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Geoffrey Greener

Chief Risk Officer

Bank of America

Oliver Jakob

International CRO

Mitsubishi UFJ

Peter Keenan

CISO

Lazard

Marcelo Brutti

CRO

Hyundai Capital

Frank Morisano

CRO

ICBC

Amy Butler

CRO

Legal & General

Insight from Chief Risk Officer of Hyundai Capital America

22nd May 2018

The potential deregulation under the new administration

By Frank Morisano, Chief Risk Officer at Industrial & Commercial Bank of China.

2nd May 2018

Connectivity of data across business lines and taking an enterprise view to bring lines together

By Azlina Wetmore, Head of Commercial Credit Policy & Innovation, Capital One.

2nd May 2018

Managing overwhelming levels of model inventory and ensuring sustainability of processes

By Chris Smigielski, Director, Model Risk Management, EverBank.

2nd May 2018

Issue escalation: Understanding and communicating what to escalate and how

By David D’Amico, Compliance Risk Management, Wells Fargo.

2nd May 2018

Some financial regulatory implications of Machine Learning: An economist’s perspective

By Larry D. Wall, Executive Director, Center for Financial Innovation and Stability, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

2nd May 2018

Using integrated enterprise operational risk as a “must have” to achieve business objectives in a digital age

By Lin Lu, SVP, Enterprise Operational Risk Officer, Freddie Mac.

2nd May 2018

Reviewing the role of the lines of defence in liquidity risk management

By Andrew Fellingham, Director, Group Head Market and Liquidity Risk Management, Americas Division, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

2nd May 2018

Using innovations in technology to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of risk management

By Aziz Lookman, Principal Economist, Amazon.

2nd May 2018

Procedures for business continuity across the enterprise and implementing an effective testing function

By Phil Masquelette, SVP, Chief Risk Officer, Ulster Savings Bank.

2nd May 2018

Improving the efficiency and impact of model risk management functions

By Marc Taymans, Managing Partner and Rahul Agarwal, Senior Manager, Risk Dynamics.

23rd April 2018

Regulatory change management

By CastleHill Managed Risk Solutions, LLC.

10th April 2018

White paper: KRI basics for Financial Institutions

How to implement this crucial part of risk management Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) are an essential part of any risk program. They provide early warning signals […]

9th April 2018

Long term strategic risks and evolution

By Marcelo Brutti, CRO, Hyundai Capital.

4th April 2018

Should a financial model ‘know’ its own ID?

By Jon Hill, MD, Global Head of Model Governance, Credit Suisse

4th April 2018

Supercharging your ERM Program

By Craig Spielmann, Former Head of Enterprise Risk Management, First Data

6th March 2018

Equity duration management in uncertain times

By Federico Galizia, CRO, Inter-American Development Bank.

6th March 2018

The road ahead: What risk management could look like in 2030

By Chris Ekonomidis, Senior Director, Synechron.

20th February 2018

Managing balance sheet and regulatory requirements across entities and jurisdictions

By Steven Hageman, Chief Liquidity Risk Officer, Societe Generale.

9th February 2018

Innovation in risk management

By Alice Kelly, Head of Research, CeFPro.

Can your organization contribute at Risk Americas 2019 Convention?

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. Please contact sales@cefpro.com or call us on +1 888 677 7007 / +44 (0)20 7164 6582 where a member of the team will be happy to tailor the right package for you.

Download our sponsorship packages

Knowledge Partners:

Argus

Argus Information & Advisory Services, LLC (“Argus”), a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ: VRSK), is a global leader in the understanding and addressing of data, information, and analytics oriented challenges facing the banking and payments industry. Argus brings almost 20 years of experience in collecting, aggregating and reporting retail banking data across a range of banking products, including but not limited to Mortgage, Deposit, Credit Cards, Auto, Personal Loans, Alternate Lending, Commercial, and Corporate from hundreds of financial institutions across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

Governor

With offices in Dublin, London and New York, Governor Software Ltd supports senior risk and compliance executives at financial institutions, maintain governance and oversight, through clear visualisation of their regulatory obligations and risk appetite.

Founded in 2015 by CEO Richard Pike, the Governor Software team have first-hand experience of the production and oversight of governance information within financial institutions. Empowered with this unique knowledge, Governor Software have taken a fresh approach to addressing these challenges; using visualisation technology to efficiently tackle the issues associated with governance and oversight in their entirety.

Governor Software believe the opportunity for compliance and risk professionals to make governance and oversight a more robust and effective process is significant.

Do visit us at www.governorsoftware.com or follow-us on Linked-in.

Quantitative Risk Management

Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) is the world’s premier enterprise risk management consulting firm. QRM develops industry-leading risk management principles, practices, and models, and provides clients with the advice, knowledge, and tools necessary to leverage those innovations into higher risk-adjusted returns. Since 1987, we have partnered with our clients to enhance their ability to measure risk, identify profitable opportunities, and make sound financial decisions. With offices in Chicago, London, and Singapore, QRM has established over 250 long-term engagements with top financial institutions from the banking, finance, and insurance industries worldwide.

S&P Global

We deliver exceptional solutions, for exceptional results. Every day at S&P Global Market Intelligence, we collect, scrub, interpret, and analyze vast volumes of content, turning it into actionable intelligence on the global financial markets and the companies and industries that comprise those markets. We deliver the data and insight you need to make informed, smarter business decisions and investment decisions that are critical to your future. Driven by our core tenets of accuracy, relevance, completeness, and timeliness, S&P Global Market Intelligence is a leading provider of financial and industry data, research, news and analytics to investment professionals, government agencies, corporations, and universities worldwide. By unifying the highest quality data and industry-leading solutions from S&P Capital IQ and SNL, we integrate news, comprehensive market and sector-specific data and analytics into a variety of tools to help clients track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuations, and assess credit risk.

Strategic Risk Associates

Strategic Risk Associates (SRA) is national consulting and advisory firm, specializing in the banking and financial services industry. SRA provides commercial banks and financial services companies with a broad spectrum of services. These include: Enterprise Risk Management; Merger and Acquisition Due Diligence; Internal Audit; Bank and Financial Services companies’ Integration; Credit Risk Management including Loan Reviews, Stress Testing, Credit Training, and Process Improvements; Regulatory Support for Bank Exams; MOUs,and Enforcement Actions; Management and Board Assessments; Strategic Plans and/or Capital Plans; DFAST; Board of Director Training; Succession Plans; Staff Augmentation, Mortgage Operations Support, and numerous Other Services.

SRA recently launched its ERM Watchtower application to financial service companies. This is an enterprise risk aggregation and reporting tool with a “Strategic” approach to risk management. ERM Watchtower enables organizations to use a cloud-based, online system to efficiently create customized Risk Profiles the Department, Business, and Enterprise level. In addition, ERM Watchtower allows each institution to monitor, manage, and mitigate their top risks across the organization. Key risks which prevent the organization from achieving its strategic plan, or negatively affecting its capital position, are closely tracked and monitored. ERM Watchtower helps organizations manage key risk categories which have been defined by each financial institution or its regulators such as Strategic, Reputational, Credit, Liquidity, Interest Rate, Insurance, Operational, Compliance and Legal, and Pricing. Lastly, Risk Improvement Activities (regulatory issues, internal audit issues, compliance issue, etc.) can be effectively managed and reported on an enterprise basis.

Co-Sponsors:

Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 401,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.

ACL

ACL is a global software company with innovative solutions to help risk professionals keep their processes in check and protect their organization’s reputation. Through a unique combination of extreme ease-of-use, cloud delivery and the integration of industry standard risk analytics, ACL’s platform helps organizations manage risks and assure effective governance. Learn more at our booth and www.acl.com.

AxiomSL

AxiomSL combines deep industry expertise with an intelligent data management platform to deliver regulatory reporting, liquidity, capital & credit, operations, trade & transactions and tax analytics. Our global footprint spans 70 regulators across 50 jurisdictions, surveilling more than 2,000 regulatory filings. We currently serve national, regional and global financial institutions with more than $39 Trillion in Total Assets.

AxiomSL’s integrated platform minimizes end-user applications and manual processes, reduces time to market costs, leverages existing data, increases transparency and control while ensuring accurate and timely regulatory calculations and reporting. Sample solutions include Basel III capital and liquidity requirements, the Dodd-Frank Act, MiFID II, IFRS 9/CECL, and both market and credit risk management requirements

CastleHill

CastleHill Managed Risk Solutions, LLC – CastleHIll offers advisory, implementation, and managed services for Regulatory Change Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Third Party Risk Management, Compliance and additional Operational risk disciplines. Our structured approach to implementation and onboarding (Prototype-Iterate-Enhance) leverages best practice risk management process design, prototyping and iterative enhancement techniques that delivers rapid value. In addition, our GRC as a Service (GRCaaS) managed service helps simplify your risk management processes by providing options for outsourcing the costly administrative activities and technology support that distract risk managers from their primary job of managing risk. CastleHill team members average over 17 years of professional experience and act as Subject Matter Experts in two or more risk domains. We have a proven track record of departmental and enterprise GRC implementations using the RSA Archer and ProcessUnity platforms.

Darling Consulting Group

Darling Consulting Group (DCG) is a leading independent provider of balance sheet risk management services and solutions for the financial institution industry. DCG’s Quantitative Risk Analysis & Strategy Group provides specialized end-to-end validation for credit stress testing models (DFAST/CCAR) which includes an evaluation of the mathematical approaches employed to project credit losses and PPNR forecasts, as well as ALM model integration, governance, controls and documentation.
For over 30 years DCG has helped financial institutions of all sizes make better strategic and risk management decisions. Services include comprehensive asset/liability management and strategy advisory, balance sheet risk modeling, broad-based model validation (e.g. ALM, liquidity, credit, ALLL, MSR, capital, operational risk models), behavioral studies (deposits, prepayments), credit stress testing and challenger models, and liquidity management (including contingency planning, monitoring and stress testing tools).

Novantas

Novantas is the industry leader in analytic advisory services and technology solutions for banks. We create superior value for retail and commercial banks through deep and insightful analysis of the information that drives the financial services industry across pricing, product development, treasury and risk management, distribution, marketing, and workforce management. For more information, visit www.novantas.com.

Protiviti

Protiviti is a global consulting firm that helps companies solve problems in finance, technology, operation, governance, risk and internal audit, and has served more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000® and 35 percent of Fortune Global 500® companies. Our Model Risk Management practice provides experienced quantitative analysts to develop and validate a variety of models, and our holistic process helps control risk, prevent losses and enhances key stakeholders’ understanding of model risk. We can develop customized quantitative models, refine and calibrate existing models, and design stress testing and scenario analysis programs to supplement existing analytics. Areas of expertise include: Model Risk Governance Assessment, Model Development, Model Validation, Model Audit Support, Stress Testing, IFRS9/CECL, Initial Margin Model, and Market Risk/FRTB.

McKinsey Risk Dynamics

McKinsey Risk Dynamics, part of McKinsey & Company, is a global consulting firm that has been providing model risk management advisory and independent model validation and audit services to banks, insurers, asset managers and financial infrastructure operators throughout the world for over 14 years. As part of the McKinsey & Company, we provide a combination of deep technical expertise and strategic thinking to help our clients assess the risks faced across their model portfolio in a timely and efficient manner, while identifying the most relevant mitigation strategy. Our team consists of quantitative consultants (PhDs and actuaries) and business experts, allowing us to offer our clients a mix of business, risk, audit, and regulatory compliance skills. We have expertise in all major model classes including regulatory/economic capital, pricing, valuation, provisioning (e.g. IFRS9/CECL) and non-financial (e.g. AML) and decision-support models.

Simudyne

Simudyne powers computer simulations to augment human intelligence and enable radically better decisions.

Simudyne has built tomorrow’s simulation platform, integrating realistic bottom-up models of the world with artificial intelligence, to make it easier to simulate every possible future. This technology empowers executive decision makers to work directly with intelligent agents and make radically better decisions. Our technology allows businesses to understand the past by creating realistic models of the world from the bottom up. Then, you can explore your environment by testing all possible decisions in a safe virtual environment. Finally, you decide your future by leveraging the wisdom of computational simulation. Simudyne is already in use by leading banks looking to enhance stress testing models, simulate contagion risk and for a range of other commercial and retail banking activities.

Synechron

Synechron is a global consulting and technology organization providing innovative solutions to the financial services industry through its three main business focus areas: digital, business consulting, and technology. Based in New York, the company has 18 offices around the globe, with over 8,000+ employees producing over $500+M in annual revenue. For more information on the Company please visit the website or our LinkedIn community.

Wolters Kluwer

Whether complying with regulatory requirements or managing financial transactions, addressing a single key risk, or working toward a holistic enterprise risk management strategy, Wolters Kluwer works with customers worldwide to help them successfully navigate regulatory complexity, optimize risk and financial performance, and manage data to support critical decisions. Wolters Kluwer provides risk management, compliance, finance and audit solutions that help financial organizations improve efficiency and effectiveness across their enterprise, with more than 30 offices in 20 countries. For further information please visit www.wolterskluwerfs.com

Stream Sponsor:

FI Consulting

FI Consulting is a financial management consulting firm providing risk analytics, financial modeling and information technology services to banks, credit unions, and government agencies. For more than 16 years, clients have called on us to address complex analytical challenges based on our particular strengths in developing, validating, and implementing credit risk and stress testing models. At FI Consulting, we take pride in our ability to deliver high impact and practical solutions that stand up to examination by our clients’ toughest stakeholders including management, auditors and regulators.

Associate Sponsors:

Bureau van Dijk

With information on 285 million companies worldwide, Bureau van Dijk is the resource for company data. We capture and treat private company information for better decision making and increased efficiency.
Moody’s Analytics BankFocus is the definitive solution for analyzing banks. It’s a new approach to global banking data, combining renowned content from Bureau van Dijk and Moody’s Investors Service, with expertise from Moody’s Analytics. The result is a comprehensive banking database that you can use to identify, analyze and monitor banks and other financial institutions.
Research and analyze companies and banks for counterparty credit risk, portfolio analysis, regulatory reporting and anti-money laundering due diligence.
You can access:
• Financial statements, and peer analysis, for more banks than any other solution
• Comprehensive, portfolio-level views of group exposure
• Channel agnostic solutions – integrate into your workflow or use our contemporary interface and tools
We offer free consultations and free trials – get more information and register your interest at bvdinfo.com.

ClusterSeven

ClusterSeven is a global provider of strategic Spreadsheet Management software. Our market-leading suite of products provide a governance platform for a firm’s spreadsheets, user-built databases and modelling tools. The ClusterSeven suite provides transparency around spreadsheet activity, enables the capture of an inventory of spreadsheets as well as facilitates a full audit trail of changes to the key spreadsheets and databases in the inventory.

The suite provides businesses and their control functions full confidence in the integrity of their firm’s spreadsheet data, while also offering substantial savings on the time and resources used to check data processes and accuracy.

Lynx Technology Partners

Lynx Technology Partners is the trusted Information Security and Risk Management Advisor that customers in highly-regulated industries worldwide depend on to improve security posture, facilitate compliance, reduce risk, and refine operational efficiency. With world-class skills and knowledge capital built over 30 years, Lynx security experts help customers recognize and control IT-related risks and maintain compliance with major industry and government standards. Through consulting, security and risk assessments, penetration testing, managed security services, and an award-winning GRC solution, Lynx supports many critical projects for security-conscious leaders in Financial Services, Federal, Energy, Healthcare, State Government, and Higher Education. For more information, please visit LynxRiskSolutions.com.

SAS

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 83,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

TIBCO Software

TIBCO fuels digital business by enabling better decisions and faster, smarter actions through the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud. From APIs and systems to devices and people, we interconnect everything, capture data in real time wherever it is, and augment the intelligence of your business through analytical insights. Learn how TIBCO makes digital smarter at www.tibco.com.

Workiva

Workiva (NYSE:WK) delivers Wdesk, an intuitive cloud platform that modernizes how people work within thousands of organizations, including over 70 percent of the 500 largest U.S. corporations by total revenue. Wdesk is built upon a data management engine, offering controlled collaboration, data connections, granular permissions, and a full audit trail. Wdesk helps mitigate risk, improves productivity, and gives users confidence in their data-driven decisions. For more information, visit workiva.com

Exhibitors:

ProcessUnity

ProcessUnity’s cloud-based solutions help organizations of all sizes automate their risk and compliance programs. Our highly configurable, easy-to-use tools significantly reduce manual administrative tasks, allowing customers to spend more time on strategic risk mitigation. As a software-as-a-service technology, ProcessUnity deploys quickly with minimal effort from customers and their IT resources. The inherent efficiency our technology delivers faster, better results, and the ability to scale governance, risk, and compliance programs over time. Learn more at www.processunity.com.

ZM Financial Systems

Sleep better at night knowing you have stronger confidence in your bottom line and balance sheet decisions. Join the more than 2,000 financial institutions using dependable and defendable analytics from ZM Financial Systems to maximize profit and minimize market risk. Our integrated solutions inspire confidence in an uncertain economic world with tools that align your capital, earnings and risk profiles with your company strategies.

2018 Media Partners:

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Modelling alternatives for CECL

The current and future role of the CRO

Has regulation helped or hurt risk management?

The interplay of Basel capital requirements and CECL

CPE & More Details

CPE Credits

Earn up to 21 CPE Credits

Earn up to 14 CPE Credits for the main convention, and up to 7 for a pre-event Masterclass.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of financial risk management
Advanced Preparation: No advanced preparation is required
Program Level: Intermediate to advanced
Delivery Method: Group-live

The Center For Financial Professionals is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org

Frequently asked questions

Can I present at the Risk Americas Convention?

Yes, the Center for Financial Professionals are happy to discuss speaking opportunities at the Risk Americas Convention. For further information on this please contact Alice.Kelly@cefpro.com or call us on +44 (0) 20 7164 6582.

Are there any rules on the dress code?

Business attire is requested. The Convention is a formal opportunity to network with like-minded professionals and to gain knowledge from the industry’s finest risk management experts.

What is the cost and what is included in the registration fee?

We offer incentives for ‘early bird’ registrants of the Convention, as outlined on our pricing structure. Registration includes breakfast, refreshment breaks, lunches, full access to the sessions and exhibition area. Presentations from sessions are also available, subject to speaker approval.

Where can I find the Convention documentation and speaker presentations?

All registered attendees will receive an email with access to documentation and speaker presentations after the Convention* We will work with our presenters to include as many presentations as possible on our Risk Insights App during the Convention. *Please note that our speakers often have to gain permission from their relevant compliance departments to release their presentations. On rare occasions compliance may not allow presentations to be distributed.

Will breakfast, lunch and refreshment be provided?

Yes. As with all of our events the Center for Financial Professionals will be providing brilliant coffee, breakfast, lunch, refreshments, and smaller bites during the networking breaks.

Will there be opportunities to network with other attendees?

There are ample opportunities for networking and interaction throughout the Convention, such as

Breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
Cocktail reception at the end of the day (Subject to confirmation)
Q&A, panel discussions and audience participation technology available through the Risk Insights App

I have several colleagues that would like to attend, is there a group discount?

Certainly! We are pleased to offer you a 50% discount on the third registration or provide a fifth registration for free. If you would like to register more than five colleagues please contact us on +44 (0) 20 7164 6582 Please note:

Registrations must be made at the same time
Registrations must come from the organisation
The lowest registration will be discounted

Will there be opportunities to network with other attendees?

There are ample opportunities for networking and interaction throughout the Convention, such as

Breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
Cocktail reception at the end of the day (Subject to confirmation)
Q&A, panel discussions and audience participation technology available through the Risk Insights App

Are there opportunities to share my thought-leadership at the Risk Americas Convention?

Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of Risk Americas Convention and our wider risk professionals community. At the event We can distribute your material to the attendees, offer you an exhibition booth, and provide speaking opportunities so that you may enjoy a more prominent presence at the Convention. Visit the Sponsor tab for further information or contact sales@cefpro.com / +44 (0) 207 164 6582. Risk Insights Feature your content on our Risk Insights website and supporting Risk Insights monthly newsletter.

Are media partnerships available for the Risk Americas Convention?

Yes. As part of a media partnership we can offer a variety of options to increase the branding and awareness of your association, company, certificate, publication or media. We are flexible with what we can offer however, we usually offer:

Provide a discounted rate to attend
Place your logo and profile on the Convention website
Place your logo on the Convention brochure
Place your logo on promotional content where applicable
Distribute your media/marketing at the Convention
Promote through social media channels

To discuss this further please contact amy.greene@cefpro.com or call +44 (0) 20 7164 6582.

REGISTER

	Pre-Agenda Rate (Banks & Buy-Side Financial Institutions Only)	Pre-Agenda Rate (Vendors, Service Providers & Consultants)
Risk Americas 2019 Dates tbc	$1,099	Please email jesse.hopkins@cefpro.com

If you represent a vendor, service provider or consultant, please contact jesse.hopkins@cefpro.com to register for the Convention.
If you inadvertently have registered as a practitioner, you will receive an invoice for the shortfall or the opportunity to exercise the cancellation policy.

Group Bookings:

Group rates are available for 3 or more attendees from the same organisation, when registering at the same time. The current rate allows every third colleague to come along for half price! or a fifth colleague to attend for free