9th Annual Risk EMEA 2020

Will Jennings will be presenting at Risk EMEA

Sedjwick is a seasoned Chief Risk Officer with over 20 years of experience across commercial, retail and business (SME) banking products. He has multifunction experience across credit risk management, Enterprise Risk Management, business management, marketing, financial analysis and advanced analytics.

He has experience across products and markets having worked across both developed markets (US, UK, Western Europe) as well as Emerging Markets (Asia, Middle East and Africa).

Sedjwick has a Masters Degree in Business and a Bachelors Degree in Engineering.

Outside of work, Sedjwick is an avid squash and tennis player.

Mr Koehler was appointed to his current role as Chief Risk Officer of Mizuho Securities Europe GmbH in November 2018 covering Legal, Risk and Compliance. He joined from TP ICAP where he was Chief Risk Officer EMEA and prior to that Global Head of Risk at ICAP.

Mr Koehler started his career with Deutsche Bank as a Chartered Banker and post graduation went on to serve in the areas of Legal, Credit Risk and Operational Risk Management in New York, Frankfurt and Tokyo. Subsequently Mr Koehler extended his wide range of risk management related experience in trading & sales businesses with senior appointments at Barclays, RBS, Bank of America and Nomura in London.

Mr. Koehler studied economics and law and is admitted to the Bar in Germany.

As of August 2017 Dr. Ebbe Negenman is a member of the executive board and Chief Risk Officer of Aegon Bank in The Hague (The Netehralnds). In that he is responsible for the risk and compliancy functions of the bank. Previously he fulfilled the position of head of Regulatory Risk at ABN AMRO Bank where he was responsible for Model Risk, Model Validation, the Risk Policy setting, the Risk Governance Office, and for the 2nd line on the risk regulatory compliancy. Previously Ebbe hold senior management positions at various places within ING Group. In Hong Kong Ebbe was overlooking the investment risk of the ING Life entities in the Asia and Pacific region. Before that he was the senior managing director Market Risk of ING Real Estate, at that time one of the largest real estate companies in the world. Ebbe started his career in Asset and Liability Management at MeesPierson in Amsterdam. Ebbe has a PhD In Operation Research and a Masters’ in Mathematics as well as a Masters’ in Econometrics.

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 some 20 years specialising 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.

Responsible for second line oversight of BNY Mellon’s Issuer Services businesses. Experience covering global custody operations, on exchange and OTC clearing and settlement operations, debt and equity capital markets servicing, equity and FX trading, transaction banking and private client stockbroking.

Michael began his career at Abbey Stockbrokers joining BNY Mellon in 2000. In that time he’s held first line management roles in Pershing’s Retail Brokerage Middle Office and Risk Management roles aligned to Pershing, Securities Operations, Global Collateral Management, ABN Amro Mellon, Issuer Services, and Treasury Services.

Resident technical practitioner for the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment’s Risk in Financial Services syllabus panel and member of the Association of Foreign Banks Risk Advisory Committee.

Carole Avis will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

James joined JPMorgan Chase in June 2007 to form part of the Global Industry Issues team. He moved to the Product team covering regulatory and strategic issues across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in November 2018. His current role includes evaluation of industry and regulatory requirements, with a view to helping the industry move towards achieving its aims and positioning JPMorgan Chase within the fast changing payments environment. He is a Member of the Board of EBA Clearing and UK Finance Payments Products and Services Board, and a member of the Bank of England’s Strategic Advisory Panel and Pay.UKs Transition Advisory Group.

Previously the Head of Risk Reward at Westpac Banking Corporation in Australia and the Head of Risk Analytics at AIB, Ed leads RBS’ stress testing change program.

Ed has been at the cutting edge of bank risk management practices for more than 20 years experience. He is the co-author of an early public study on loss given default and oversaw Westpac’s enterprise-wide stress testing program.

Ed holds a postgraduate degree in statistics and is a member of the Institute of Directors in Ireland.

Mohsin Choudhury will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Thomas is currently Chief Compliance Officer at Moneta Money Bank, Czech Republic, formerly part of the GE Capital group, where he leads the anti-fraud, AML, conduct risk and regulatory compliance teams. He also has responsibility for an agile development team that is automating the bank’s digital client onboarding KYC controls.
Thomas has 20 years’ experience in compliance, audit and regulatory senior executive roles having served as a Senior Banking Regulator for the United Arab Emirates Central Bank from 1999 to 2006. He was Chief Auditor at GE Money Czech Republic from 2007 to 2014 before taking up the Chief Compliance Officer role in 2015. He was closely involved in the IPO process that led to the successful spin-off of the business as an independent entity in 2016. Thomas was also President of the group’s Volunteer organization from 2013 to 2018 and serves as a Non-Executive Director for the group’s Leasing subsidiary.
Thomas holds a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from Warwick Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Manchester Metropolitan University.

Angela works in Lloyds Banking Group’s Chief Risk Office and is responsible for managing risk across new Technology and Technology Change.
Before working at Lloyds Banking Group, Angela worked at Deutsche Bank as the Global Head of Security, Risk and Compliance for the Public Cloud, Global Head of Anti Financial Crime Analytics, Global Head of Data Quality People Change and Global Head of Money Markets Data Sourcing.
Before joining Deutsche Bank, Angela worked as a Senior Manager at EY within Financial Services across Asia Pacific and EMEIA focusing on Corporate Banking and Capital Markets, Transformation and Advisory programmes. Angela started her career at IBM in Australia working as a developer, tester, designer and then business analyst and project manager.
Angela has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics / Robotics) and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Colin Last is the Director of Risk & Control at Nationwide Building Society, having joined the Society in 2015. During this time Colin has led the development of the Operational Resilience Strategy and is accountable for the Risk and Control Framework that enables operational resilience outcomes throughout the various business units of the Society. His work is key in ensuring the development, operation and delivery of products and services to Nationwide Building Society’s Members. Colin has over 15 years’ experience in the development of risk and control management systems, cross-sector to include utilities, nuclear and gaming as well as financial services. Colin has a technical specialism in Secure e-commerce, digital identities and payments for which he has a MSc.

Maciej Lewandowski is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income.
Currently (since June 2014) he is working in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision of two large Finnish banks (previously covering The Netherlands). As JST Coordinator, he leads 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. He is responsible for the international team of experts located in Frankfurt and Helsinki.
Prior to joining 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.

Stéphane Malrait is Managing Director and Global Head of market structure and innovation for Financial Markets at ING Bank. Stephane is responsible for following market structure and industry challenges impacting the financial market industry. He is leading innovation activities internal to ING and also external partnership and developments with Fintech companies. He actively contribute 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 on 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 also working on the implementation of financial regulations that will impact the clients trading activity and transform how the trading floor operates.

Stephane is also a board member for several Fintech market initiatives and trading associations. 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. Here, he has chaired the ACI FX committee, representing the views of professionals in the FX sector. He is also an active member of the ECB FX contact group working on the BIS Global FX code of conduct working groups.

ING PROFILE

ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base, offering banking services through its operating company ING Bank. The purpose of ING Bank is empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. ING Bank’s more than 52,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries.

ING Group shares are listed on the exchanges of Amsterdam (INGA AS, INGA.AS), Brussels and on the New York Stock Exchange (ADRs: ING US, ING.N).

Sustainability forms an integral part of ING’s strategy, evidenced by ING’s ranking as a leader in the banks industry group by Sustainalytics. ING Group shares are included in the FTSE4Good index and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (Europe and World), where ING is also among the leaders in the banks industry group.

An all-round Cyber Security Expert, Banking Professional, and Creative Technologist with over 20 years of experience in the development and execution of Cyber Defence transformation strategies.

Tim Palmer will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Julien is a Partner in Reply focused on helping financial services become more data driven. In this context he supports clients with the adoption of machine-learning, cloud and process automation. He applies these in the context of financial crime, core banking system migration, risk measurement and regulatory compliance. Julien started his career as a quant trader after which he became the Global Head of Risk Quants for NatWest Markets. More recently he was the Chief Risk Officer of Revolut.

Chanel Rock will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Currently, I am the Global CEO at Mirai Advisory, responsible for all of the operations in the USA, LATAM, and Europe.
Mirai is a niche consulting firm focused primarily in Balance Sheet Management -ALM, Liquidity, FTP, Capital, etc. We have been designing and developing End-to-End solutions across the globe for the past 5 years with great success. In 2016 we decided it was time to drive an evolutionary leap within our areas of expertise and decided to develop a new generation tool. Our goal was to get the most out of the current technologies through the other companies of our group -BI Geek and Tadaima Studio- in a way that would really create a huge step in ALM. MAT is based in real-world experience, in what our clients and ourselves have wanted or dreamed of, it doesn’t come only from a lab.

With a business and management degree, I am passionate for the impact of new technologies and the way they can empower people and organizations. I help companies defining and implementing innovative solutions to keep up with digital transformation challenges and regulatory requirements. I have 7+ years experience in Management Consulting, working on projects with Financial Institutions and Fintech Startups across Europe and in the UK. Among others, my experience includes: project management, business transformation and simplification, process reengineering, business/ IT strategy and analysis, data governance, compliance risk management.

Cameron is a cyber security professional who has spent the last few years working in senior security officer roles with large UK insurers. Cameron has moved across to financial services having previously worked in defence sector where he supported a number of projects such as the wider response to the TalkTalk data breach and a number of national security projects for the MoD, capitalising on his previous military service with the British Army’s Intelligence Corps. Cameron’s specialties include infosec risk management, supplier assurance and process improvement.

Suman Datta will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Sophie is the Chief Risk Officer of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited. She is responsible for overseeing the overall risk culture in the company, working across risk and compliance disciplines. 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.

Sophie graduated from Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance. She is the chairperson of the Investment Association’s Business & Enterprise Risk Committee and is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Alan Farrell will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Simon Gadd was appointed CRO of L&G Group in January 2013. As Group CRO he heads risk oversight for all risk types within L&G risk framework, including prudential, operational and conduct risks. He provides advice to the Board and Executives on risk matters across the Group, including both UK and overseas operations, and sits on the Group Executive Committee and Group Risk Committee.

Simon has had a varied career with Legal & General since completing a mathematics degree at Oxford University. He qualified as an actuary in 1991 and roles undertaken since have included defined benefit pension valuation, various pricing and marketing roles, general management roles, and leadership of the pensions review. Simon has led several different businesses within the Legal & General group, including the Retail Protection business, Group Protection business and as MD of Annuities from 2006 – 2012.

Jérôme Henry is Principal Adviser in the ECB Macroprudential policies and financial stability area. His responsibilities cover IT and data infrastructure as well as financial stability assessments, in particular via stress-testing. He led ECB teams for the Quality Assurance of SSM stress tests and was involved in country crisis management. He also was a BIS FSI fellow.
Mr Henry was beforehand a long-standing Eurosystem forecast coordinator. He started at the ECB leading the macromodelling team. He arrived in Frankfurt more than 20 years ago, to prepare Monetary Union, after being a macroeconomist with Banque de France. Prior to his central bank career, he did research at the OFCE and the INSEE.
Mr Henry has numerous academic publications in e.g. the Review of Economics and Statistics and with Cambridge University Press, also contributed to books on stress-testing e.g. the ECB STAMP€. He is a founding member of the CEPR Euro-Area Business Cycle Network. An ENSAE graduate, Mr Henry holds a PhD in Economics and a BA in History from Paris Sorbonne.

Dr Ying Hu is the Head of Risk Analytics at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited (SMBCE). She is responsible for SMBCE’s Credit and Op risk modelling, ICAAP stress testing, RAROC and RWA calculations. Her latest project was to establish a Model Risk Management Framework for the bank. Prior to joining SMBCE she worked at Deutsche Bank in the Risk Analytics and Instruments Group, where she was responsible for managing and developing Deutsche’s RAROC pricing tool. Ying holds a PHD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Warwick.

Amit has got extensive Treasury and Risk Management experience with banks across different countries. He has worked with global banks for the last 15 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.

Phil leads NatWest Markets’ customer engagement on external Market Structure and Regulatory Reforms, an ever dynamic area given that industry developments are accelerating rather than drawing breath. Engaging all types of customers across multiple asset classes and regions globally, Phil has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to NatWest Markets’ business, having joined the Markets Graduate Programme many years ago following completion of his Masters in Economics. His breadth of experience, given previous roles in Sales, Account Planning and Strategy, has been invaluable in providing him with the basis on which he has built a well-rounded approach to regulatory change.
In recent years, he has taken the lead in implementing many key post-crisis regulatory reforms, including Dodd-Frank, EMIR and MiFID II. Most recently Phil has been leading the client engagement strategy for Brexit and IBOR reform and is an active member of the Risk-Free Rates (RFRs) forums that are shaping this pivotal market reform.

Melissa joined Bank of Ireland in late 2017 from the German state agency FMS which was responsible for winding up the nationalised HRE Group. She has previously led operational market risk teams based in Munich, Dublin and New York from 2013. Prior to that, she worked for 7 years in Risk Consulting advisory in the UK, Germany and Asia (China). She holds an MBA from the University of Mannheim and a PhD in Astronomy (Space Physics) from the University of London, where her research focussed on space weather data from ESA and NASA missions.

Steve Lynch will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Nigel is a Chartered Accountant and has held various roles in banking having worked in Internal Audit at Schroders and Credit Suisse. Previous roles also include Head of Operational Risk and Enterprise Risk reporting to CRO’s at Santander. In the last 7 years Nigel has been Head of ICAAP and held various Stress Testing roles at RBS.

James Orr is the Chief Actuary for General Insurance at the Prudential Regulation Authority, which is part of the Bank of England. He heads up the General Insurance Risk Specialists: providing technical input into the supervision of firms; carrying out thematic reviews; contributing to policy development; and, supporting research into the financial risks faced by regulated UK GI firms.

Ozgur Ozel joined Morgan Stanley in June 2010 and is the central regulatory relationship manager for the Prudential Regulatory Authority. Prior to this role Ozgur worked in Internal Audit covering various reviews across the securities and investment banking businesses. Ozgur is a Certified Internal Auditor with 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry, having worked at HSBC, Lehman Brothers and UBS.

Tony Roberts joined Deutsche Bank in 2011 where he heads Leverage Management as well as Capital & Liquidity crisis management in Treasury. Currently he has responsibility for steering leverage and balance sheet volume in BAU, as well as the management tools and mechanisms for steering capital and liquidity in stress or crisis situations.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Roberts spent 6 years at Standard Bank, latterly in Treasury & Capital Management, before which he worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Mr. Roberts has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University.

Jacek Rzeznik will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Lena is Head of Audit for Liquidity and Non-Traded Market Risk, Treasury, GLG and Product Control, as well as covering the IBOR transition. She joined Credit Suisse Internal Audit in June 2015. Prior to CS, she was Global Head of Liquidity Reporting and Analytics in Barclays Group Treasury, responsible for all liquidity regulatory reporting to the PRA as well as internal reporting. Previous roles include European Treasury COO and European Head of Treasury Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley, and Market Risk Management at Mitsubishi Trust. Lena holds a degree in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics, majoring in Financial Economics and Econometrics.

Michael Baker is Head of Risk Analysis at Scope Risk Solutions, which partners with its clients to efficiently produce credit assessments in a scalable manner. Prior to arriving at Scope in 2016 he was Global Head of Risk Solutions, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Before joining S&P in 2002, Baker held numerous positions in Risk Management, the Chairman’s Office and Commercial and Retail Banking at Lloyds Bank in both London and New York. He graduated in Economics from Cambridge University and holds professional banking and treasury qualifications.

Russell has worked as a trader, risk manager and assurance provider in large and medium banks as well as entrepreneurial trading firms. The common thread across these roles has been a hands-on IT development component, i.e. “innovation”. Currently he is using machine learning to re-use existing scenario results to predict new, adhoc scenarios quickly as well as identifying the explanatory features driving the results.

Louis Brown heads up the Credit Risk Modelling team for the Investec Bank PLC. His primary focus is the development of Credit Risk model for IFRS 9. Before joining Investec, Louis worked at Barclays in the model validation team and before this at RBS in a number of Credit Risk modelling and analytics roles. Louis holds an MSc in Machine Learning and a BSc in Physics with Computer Science.

Atanas Dimov has global responsibility for the management of credit and investment risk arising from illiquid debt investments as well as counterparty credit risk at Aviva Investors. Prior to this, he spent 13 years in private debt origination, portfolio management and credit risk at Bank Of America Merrill Lynch and KfW IPEX-Bank as well as financial audit at Deloitte. Atanas qualified as a CPA in the US.

Per Hansson will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

As Head of Credit and Market Risk Europe, Michalis is responsible for the design and effective execution of second line of defense oversight over the governance and processes of the system of credit and market risk management. Prior to this role, Michalis was the Head of Financial Risk at Just Group, with responsibility for the independent validation of the internal model and the oversight of financial risk management. Michalis has also spent a number of years with Willis Towers Watson, HSBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas in modelling, structuring and pricing different type of portfolios including securitisation and risk rating of variety of portfolios and other bespoke derivative solutions to transfer credit and market risks out of financial institutions balance sheets. Michalis holds a PhD in mathematical finance from Henley Business School, University of Reading, and a MSc from Warwick Business School. Michalis is also an associate member of the Charter Institute for Securities and Investment.

Diana Kapsa will be presenting at Risk EMEA.

Maciej Lewandowski is a seasoned banking professional with 20+ years of experience ranging from financial control, credit risk management to corporate banking, derivatives and fixed income.
Currently (since June 2014) he is working in ECB Banking Supervision (aka Single Supervision Mechanism – SSM) as Head of Section & Joint Supervisory Team (JST) Coordinator, responsible for consolidated supervision of two large Finnish banks (previously covering The Netherlands). As JST Coordinator, he leads 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. He is responsible for the international team of experts located in Frankfurt and Helsinki.
Prior to joining 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.

Emmanuelle recently joined Schroders as the Global Head of Credit Risk. Her role involves managing principal credit risk both for the corporate treasury and the wealth management businesses, as well as agency credit risk and supporting group risk in providing oversight of private assets.

She spent the previous 10 years working at JP Morgan where she was an Executive Director managing Credit Risk for the Investment Bank, focusing predominantly in the Asset Management space (including Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Real Estate and Pension funds). Emmanuelle holds a Master in International Environmental Law from Aix-en-Provence University in France and in International Public Law from Tubingen University in Germany.

Paula Murphy is a front office Head of Credit in SMBC’s Corporate Banking department, responsible for a portfolio of European publicly listed large cap customers across a range of sectors including Utilities, REITS & TMT.

With over 30 years of banking and rating agency experience, Paula has helped to build and lead a number of large corporate credit management teams in both front office & credit risk management. Past experience includes roles at Barclays, Riyad Bank, Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Bank & Commerzbank.

Paula also spent over 3 years as a lead supervisory analyst at Fitch Ratings responsible for a portfolio of Consumer & Retail investment & non-investment grade issuers, providing public ratings as well as voting at rating committees.

Mr. Noll studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg, Germany. From 2006 to 2012 he worked for Société Générale and Barclays Capital in Frankfurt, Paris and London.
Since 2012 Mr. Noll services and advices banks regarding all RSU-run credit risk management tools such as internal rating systems, stress testing tools, IFRS9, early warning systems and LGD-models.

Erdem Ultanir will be presenting at Risk EMEA 2020.

Timothy Wickens will be presenting at Risk EMEA 2020.

Adam is experienced risk specialist with particular focus on credit risk and IFRS 9. He is also certified financial risk manager (FRM) and member of GARP. Adam started his professional career in one of major consulting firms (EY). In EY he worked in FRM department (advisory) and was involved in projects for several polish banks, concerning internal risk parameters calculation under IRB, capital adequacy under Basel II (STD and IRB), data quality and credit risk reporting.
After that he worked in medium sized polish bank (Bank Pocztowy) for over six years, first as head of impairment provisions and portfolio analysis team and then for two years as Director of Credit Portfolio Management Department. He was responsible for impairment calculation including successful IFRS 9 implementation in the area of credit risk (which he considers his greatest achievement), scoring methodology, credit risk reporting, CRR compliance in the area of credit risk, credit risk assessment and valuation.
At the beginning of this year Adam joined another medium sized polish Bank- Plus Bank. He works there as the Director of Risk Control Department, responsible for IFRS 9, credit portfolio reporting, as well as liquidity and market risk.

Gerrit van den Akker is responsible for second line oversight of NN Investment Partners’ counterparty risk. Experience includes counterparty credit risk solutions, efficient portfolio management techniques, independent validation of valuation models, bespoke derivatives transactions, OTC clearing and risk governance.

Gerrit began his career at ING Investment Management in 2006 as valuation specialist, specializing in fixed income and derivatives valuation modelling. He is also a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

Yes, the Center for Financial Professionals are happy to discuss speaking opportunities at Risk EMEA 2020. For further information on this please contact alice.kelly@cefpro.com or call us on +44 (0) 20 7164 6582.

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

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

All registered attendees will receive an email with access to documentation and speaker presentations after the Summit* We will work with our presenters to include as many presentations as possible on our Risk Insights App during the Summit. *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.

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

There are ample opportunities for networking and interaction throughout the Summit, 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

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:

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Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of Risk EMEA 2020 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 Summit. 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. For further information please download our media pack here.

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• Provide a discounted rate to attend
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