



Why should you attend?
Join us in London on June 13-14 for Europe’s 12th Annual premier risk, regulation, and innovation Convention.
With keynote sessions led by established CROs and 3 individual work streams guided by the knowledge and insight of over 60 industry professionals, Risk EMEA is a one-stop-shop to learn all the necessary components of how to effectively manage risk.
Keynote sessions and 3 targeted streams
- GEOPOLITICAL RISK:
Managing the operational challenges influenced by global geopolitical uncertainty
- FUTURE PROOFING:
Overcoming challenges from transformation and digitalization programs needed to future proof businesses
- ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT:
Leveraging technology to better manage enterprise risk management frameworks
- ECONOMIC RISK:
Effectively managing economic risks to understand long term impacts of global crisis
Financial Risk
MARKET VOLATILITY | INTEREST RATE RISK | INFLATION |
CENTRAL BANK CHANGES | MACRO ECONOMIC RISK |
LIQUIDITY | BASEL 4 | CREDIT RISK
Non-Financial Risk
THIRD PARTY RISK | SUPPLY CHAIN RISK | ESG |
CLIMATE RISK | CYBER SECURITY | FINANCIAL CRIME |
RESILIENCE | PEOPLE RISK | RISK CULTURE
Model Risk & Technology Trends
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION | DATA | DIGITAL ASSETS |
SYSTEMIC DESIGN | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING | MODEL RISK | MODEL VALIDITY
Hear from subject matter experts and industry front-runners

An engaging and interactive agenda spread across 2-days
Participate in a comprehensive exploration of the topics at hand via presentations, panel discussions, and live Q&As to facilitate learning and engagement.

Listen in as subject matter experts share their knowledge
Our line-up of 70+ knowledgeable and experienced practitioners speakers bring the highest standard within the industry, offering fresh perspectives and insights for you to return to your department with.

7+ hours of available networking opportunities
Continue conversations from inside the auditorium over coffee, lunch, and at our complimentary drinks reception. Make meaningful career-long industry connections to use to your professional advantage.
Over 60+ CROs & industry professionals

Thomas Wallace
Chief Risk Officer – Revolut UK
Revolut

Michael Sparks
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Issuer Services
BNY Mellon

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

Hanna Sarraf
Chief Risk Strategy Officer
Starling International

Farooq Gulzar
UK Chief Risk Officer
UBS AM

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

Cecilia Gejke
Chief Risk Officer
Private Banking Institution

Imtiaz Hussain
Managing Director and Deputy Chief Auditor
BNY Mellon

Emma Hagan
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
ClearBank®

Ben Davis
Global Head of Resilience Risk, Managing Director
Barclays
Session previews and related insights
Get an insight of what to expect from the Convention with our past and present speaker session previews.
Effectively managing expanded model inventories
Effectively managing expanded model inventories Konstantina Armata, Senior Modelling expert, former Group Head of Model Risk Management, Barclays Below is an insight into what can be expected from Konstantina's session at Risk EMEA 2023 {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Risk+EMEA+2023&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Frisk-emea%252F%7Ctarget%3A_blank }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are
Reviewing behavioural risk and understanding how it can impact performance and integrity
Reviewing behavioural risk and understanding how it can impact performance and integrity Mirea Raaijmakers, former Global Head, Behavioural Risk Management, ING Below is an insight into what can be expected from Mirea's session at Risk EMEA 2023. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Risk+EMEA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Frisk-emea%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of he thought leader as
Top of mind for a CRO: A holistic view of risk
Top of mind for a CRO: A holistic view of risk Melissa Sexton, Chief Risk Officer, BNY Mellon Wealth Management Below is an insight into what can be expected from Melissa's keynote session at Risk Americas 2023. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Risk+Americas&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Frisk-americas%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of he thought leader
Collaboration of three lines of defense for effective oversight and validation of model risk
Collaboration of three lines of defense for effective oversight and validation of model risk Kerri Anderson, Assistant Director of Model Risk Management, Northwestern Mutual Below is an insight into what can be expected from Kerri's session at Advanced Model Risk USA 2023. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Advanced+Model+Risk+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fadvanced-model-risk%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are
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Agenda
8:00-8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50-9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
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Moderated by: Charles A. Richard III, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Co-Owner, QRM |
GEOPOLITICAL RISK – PANEL DISCUSSION
9:00-9:45
Managing and operating amidst global geopolitical uncertainty
Session details
- Driving supplier diversification
- Reviewing escalations outside of Europe
- Interconnectedness of global economies
- Ripple effect of direct and indirect exposures
- Preparation for known unknowns
- Controls and capabilities to manage risk
- Managing supply chain disruptions
- Reviewing energy crisis impact on economy
- Long term implications on business model
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Michael Sparks, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Issuer Services, BNY Mellon |
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Stephanie Ip – Lamusse, Chief Risk Officer, HSBC |
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Cecilia Gejke, Chief Risk Officer, Private Banking Institution |
FUTURE PROOFING
9:45-10:20
Developing transformation and digitalization programs to future proof businesses
Session details
- Aligning compliance programs with transformation
- Improving existing programs
- Reviewing organizational structure and governance
- Business model viability as expectations evolve
- Challenges for traditional banks in a digital environment
- Business model viability and sustainability
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
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Moderated by: Dilbagh Kalsi, Partner, Head of UK Practice, Fintegral |
MARKET VOLATILITY
10:50-11:25
Treatment of volatility in markets and continued economic risks
Session details
- Volatility in energy commodities
- Reviewing reliability of margin models in light of volatility
- Preparing for future economic environment
- Managing pressure on highly leveraged businesses
- Managing short term volatility
- Managing credit losses as a result of volatility
- Supporting customers through difficult financial periods
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Sreekar Periketi, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley |
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Moderated by: Megan Brown, Head of International, LogicGate |
THIRD PARTY RISK
10:50-11:25
Exposure of confidential data to certain entities with increased outsourcing and offshoring
Session details
- Risks outsourcing technology and data
- Managing client and bank data exposure
- Ensuring security of third party platforms
- Demonstrating oversight policies and procedures internally
- Regulatory view on internal outsourcing
- Incorporating ESG into framework without overburdening questionnaires
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Maya Goethals, Director, Compliance and Risk Management, Bank of America Merill Lynch |
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Moderated by: Sam Das, Director of IT Risk, Metro Bank |
DATA
10:50-11:25
Enhancing data capabilities to enable technology and advanced analytics
Session details
- Reviewing the evolution of data architecture patterns, working towards a regulated data centric hybrid model
- Assessing advanced data product’s
- combination between data, platform and expertise
- Using ESG criteria as a good example of a data challenge
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Philippe Coué, Head of CACIB Data Office, Credit Agricole CIB |
MARKET RISK
11:25-12:00
Managing changes in market regime when modelling and managing risk
Session details
- Reviewing the obsession with using volatility as a risk measure
- Assessing how changes in volatility regime often catch banks off guard
- The impact on risk quantification and model performance
- Why risk models fail to predict regime shifts
- Managing model deficiencies
- Building more resilient models
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Dilbagh Kalsi, Partner, Head of UK Practice, Fintegral |
REGULATORY GUIDANCE
11:25-12:00
Practical guidance to tackle current market challenges around operational resilience
Session details
- Comparing resilience to agility, recovery, continuity, financial or business resilience and other related crisis and disruption preparations
- Governance, strategy and framework challenges
- Defining a strategic view across critical services, supporting assets, third-parties and processes and setting impact tolerances
- Insight into resilience to identify, analyze, manage, and monitor risk in the context of operations, processes, and services
- Continuously monitor changing environments and capture changes in the organization’s risk profile
- Measuring current state and planning towards a future state of increased resilience maturity in the organization
- Reporting, communication and adoption of efforts within the organization
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Daniël Smidts, Global Lead Financial Services Solutions, Corporater |
DATA & TECHNOLOGY
11:25-12:00
Reviewing how to monetize data, maximise productivity and modernise technology
Session details
- Assessing the data and underlying technology strategy to help monetize your data more.
- Application of technology transformation strategy in today’s economy
- Maximising potential from legacy systems and tech debt to stay competitive.
- Increasing & enabling the productivity of the workforce to focus on priority revenue streams.
- Anticipating the future state of technology strategy
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Amanda Whiteley, Sector Director, Redis |
INFLATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
12:00-12:45
Adapting strategy for a high inflation environment
Session details
- Managing recessionary environment
- Impact on government bonds linked to inflation
- Hedging inflation exposure moving forward
- Reviewing impact to business and investment activity
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Valeriu Bajenaru, Global Head of Enterprise Risk Management, Credit Suisse |
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Jacek Rzeznik, Vice Director, ALM Risk, mBank |
ESG – PANEL DISCUSSION
12:00-12:45
Inclusion and integration of ESG within decision making across risk silos
Session details
- Managing mismatch in external data sources
- Modelling challenges with limited historical data
- Reviewing SFDR requirements
- Reviewing disparities across global benchmarks
- Embedding ESG into existing control frameworks
- Managing risks with limited regulation and data
- Reviewing reporting requirements
- Measuring and integrating ESG risk at an enterprise-wide level
- Capturing good data on climate and emissions
- Distinguishing the difference between climate risk and ESG risk
- Good practice and lessons learnt from the European market
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Jeff Simmons, Chief Risk Officer, MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. |
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Lukky Ahmed, CEO & Co-Founder, Climate X |
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Vivien Foetz, Head of Financial Risk, Gulf International Bank Ltd |
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Imtiaz Hussain, Managing Director and Deputy Chief Auditor, BNY Mellon |
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
12:00-12:45
Balancing digital transformation with security
Session details
- Preparing end users for digital change
- Handling and utilizing data
- Improving data capabilities to drive digitalization
- Managing increased demand for customization
- Balancing multiple objectives
- Strengthening cyber practices to advance transformation
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Carlos Martin, Executive Director – CIB Markets Operational Risk Management, JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
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Vivek Jain, Head of Audit – Insurance, Pensions & Investments, Lloyds Banking Group |
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Mo Philip, Head of Information Security, Retail, Legal & General Plc |
12:45-1:45
Lunch break and networking
ALM
1:45-2:20
ML in ALM: Reviewing how cloud is revolutionizing risk measurement
Session details
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Limitations, risks, and benefits of ML tools in ALM
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Areas within the ALM space where it is natural to apply classical ML techniques
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Examples of supervised and unsupervised learning applied to ALM
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Tools and actions to mitigate overfitting and other limitations
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Olmo Vazquez, Global CEO of Mirai Advisory, Mirai Advisory (MAT) |
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Sergio Cardona, Quantitative Leader, Mirai Advisory (MAT) |
ENABLING DATA
1:45-2:20
Reviewing the overlooked pillar of trust
Session details
- How the lack of foundational data strategies have lead to recent bank fails
- Understanding the critical role of defensive data strategies in banking
- Utilising a defensive data approach to enable innovation
- The importance of sound data usage for decision-making and strategy execution
- The role of data in complying with regulatory and governance requirements
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Wiehann Weerts, Director, Monocle Solutions |
TECHNOLOGY
1:45-2:20
Developing internal infrastructure to streamline processes and leverage technology
Session details
- Strategic migration to new technology platforms
- Enhancing speed and scalability
- Leveraging quantum computing as a risk management tool
- Computation challenges and capabilities
- Developing automation models
- Optimizing validation end to end
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Armel Massimina, Operational Risk Lead, National Bank of Kuwait (International) |
BALANCE SHEET MANAGEMENT
2:20-2:55
Effective balance sheet management for long term strategy with short term volatility
Session details
- Managing constraints to liquidity, capital and interest rate risk
- Managing interconnected nature of treasury risks
- Balancing economic conditions to minimize capital impact
- Stress testing economic conditions
- Managing changing customer behaviors
- Pricing deposits to remain effective
- Setting up balance sheets to withstand market volatility
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Sridhar Aiyangar, Group Head, Balance Sheet and Liquidity Management, Bank ABC |
CLIMATE RISK
2:20-2:55
Building climate risk into day-to-day operations including nature and biodiversity
Session details
- Reviewing the exploratory phase of climate regulatory stress testing
- Embedding climate risk into the prudential capital framework
- Assessing the future of climate risk and moving towards nature based solution
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Federica De Vincenzi, Head of Climate Risk, Scenario Expansion and RST Validation, Barclays |
SYSTEMIC DESIGN
2:20-2:55
Reviewing how technology continues to change markets and how a systemic design approach could create new solutions for stability
Session details
- How does technology impact behaviour and stability of the global market system?
- How do constraints for systemic stability evolve, for firms and regulators?
- What conceptual systemic design can deliver sustainable systemic stability?
- What migration paths from here to there – what are the initial steps?
- Where will it be better to cooperate that to compete?
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Francis Gross, Senior Adviser, European Central Bank |
MACRO ECONOMIC RISK – PANEL DISCUSSION
2:55-3:40
Impact of macro factor variables on risk management
Session details
- Reviewing how macroeconomic factors impact risk
- Cross industry impact of inflation
- Impact on growth and business objectives
- Ripple effect of high inflation
- Scrutinizing macro factors to maintain business viability
- Impact of gilt market volatility on stress testing
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Joao Figueiredo, Head of Credit Risk Modelling, Metro Bank |
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Jerome Henry, Principle Adviser, ECB |
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John East, Head of Prudential Risk, SMBC |
BOARD REPORTING – PANEL DISCUSSION
2:55-3:40
Understanding the role and responsibility of the board to better report
Session details
- Identifying top risks within an organization
- Distinguishing between board reporting and assurance
- Developing clear reporting to establish risk status
- Setting a risk appetite framework for key risks
- Identifying risk indicators to aggregate results
- Responsibility of director vs non-director board members
- Contribution of board reporting to board effectiveness
- Best practice observed in board reporting
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Lorraine Solway, Director of Risk, Nest Corporation |
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Uwe Klapproth, Head of Group Risk Management, Euroclear |
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Sophie Dupre-Echeverria, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, GIB Asset Management |
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Germar Knochlein, Head of Division, ECB |
DIGITAL ASSETS – PANEL DISCUSSION
2:55-3:40
Reviewing how digital assets fit within a business and developing risk appetite
Session details
- Adapting existing policies to include digital assets/cryptocurrency
- Reviewing prudential frameworks for crypto assets
- Treatment of assets on books and capitalization strategies
- Building governance framework to manage crypto assets and currencies
- Treatment of crypto exposures from a capital perspective
- Reviewing the risk and compliance frameworks of digital assets
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Farooq Gulzar, UK Chief Risk Officer, UBS AM |
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Marion Laboure, Senior Economist, Deutsche Bank |
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Basima Khuram, Director, International Lead, Digital Assets FCC Advisory, BNY Mellon |
3:40-4:10
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
ESG
4:10-4:45
Inclusion of ESG risk into investment risk framework
Session details
- Reviewing impact to counterparty and credit risks
- Identifying exposure to ESG related risks across channels
- Impact of climate related fiscal expenses on sovereign risk
- Integrating ESG into sovereign rating model
- Understanding performance implications of certain exposures
- Understanding environmental impact on bottom line
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Dirk Effenberger, Head of Investment Risk, UBS Chief Investment Office, UBS AG |
CYBER SECURITY
4:10-4:45
Protecting the organization and customers from increased cyber risk
Session details
- Systemic potential of cyber risk
- Increased risk with complexity of technology and supply chains
- Impact of geopolitical tensions on threat landscape Managing state actor led threats
- developing proportionate balance of preventative and detective controls
- Combination of technical defenses and education
- Reviewing impact of ransomware on organizations
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Nitesh Kumar, Managing Director, Global Head of Cyber, Payment Systems Risk and Strategic Projects, BNP Paribas |
CBDC
4:10-4:45
The future of central bank digital currencies
Session details
- Reviewing Bank of England digital currency release
- Mechanics of how CBDC works
- Treatment to manage risk
- Inclusion of the digital Euro
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Aleksi Grym, Head of Fintech, Bank of Finland |
LIQUIDITY
4:45-5:20
Managing liquidity risks and regulatory expectations
Session details
- What are the regulatory expectations for liquidity risk control and management
- What are the differences in regulation across regions
- Lessons learnt from the recent market events
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Haitian Li, Managing Director, Head of Liquidity and Funding Risk Control, UBS |
ESG – FIRESIDE CHAT
4:45-5:20
Enhancing oversight of social programs and mitigating reputation risks with potential greenwashing
Session details
- Investments in communities
- Inclusion of ESG considerations within third party risk
- Navigating social challenges across borders
- Aligning E, S & G for a holistic score
- Diversity, equity and inclusion disclosure requirements
- Reviewing FCA greenwashing consultation paperx
- Managing risks of perceived greenwashing
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Keith Davies, Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Admiral PLC |
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
4:45-5:20
Leveraging AI and machine learning to increase efficiency across silos
Session details
- Reviewing The Artificial Intelligence Act
- Model risk associated with the use of AI and machine learning
- Complexity of validation requirements
- Documentation and control requirements
- Regulatory approaches to AI and machine learning
- Automating manual tasks and processes
5:20-5:30
Chair’s closing remarks
5:30
End of day 1 and networking drinks reception
8:00-8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50-9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
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Moderated by: Christophe Rivoire, Head of Strategy, Opensee |
ECONOMIC RISK – PANEL DISCUSSION
9:00-9:45
Managing economic risks and long term impacts of global crisis
Session details
- Managing regional and global crises
- Implications of a recession on financial institutions
- Deterioration in asset quality as a result of economic downturn
- Solvency of banks with impacts to revenue, costs and capital lines
- Managing inflationary environment
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Jeff Simmons, Chief Risk Officer, MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V |
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Hanna Sarraf, Chief Risk Strategy Officer, Starling International |
ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT
9:45-10:20
Leveraging technology to better manage enterprise risk management frameworks
Session details
- Use of technology to improve connectivity of different risk silos
- Reviewing enterprise risks and re-allocating resources accordingly
- How different silo frameworks should be communicating with one another
- What does the future of technology hold for enterprise risk management
- Leveraging cross-border data
- Integrating different risk silos to manage risk more holistically
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Thomas Wallace, Chief Risk Officer – Revolut UK, Revolut |
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
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Moderated by: Christophe Rivoire,Head of Strategy, Opensee |
BASEL 4
10:50-11:25
Reviewing finalization of Basel requirements and implementation approaches
Session details
- Overview of the latest Basel Standard
- Basel implementation status and timelines across jurisdictions
- New internal model and sensitivity based approaches
- Other changes to the capital framework
- Implementation decisions and capital impacts
- Regulatory approval requirements
- Operational challenges of the new framework
- Potential for reduced use of internal models across the industry
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Neels Vosloo, Director, EMEA Capital Policy and Advocacy, Bank of America Merill Lynch |
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Moderated by: Andrew Sheen, Director, AJ Sheen Consulting |
FINANCIAL CRIME
10:50-11:25
Developing holistic financial crime control frameworks and managing global regulatory disparities
Session details
- Managing regulatory complexity
- Managing inclusion of AI and automation technology
- Efficient and effective risk mitigation techniques
- Leveraging and automating third party data
- Proactively identifying risk
- Aligning financial crime control practices
- Reviewing financial crime control frameworks
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Alia Cooper, Wholesale Head of CDD, HSBC |
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Moderated by: Tanveer Bhatti, Group Head of Model Risk Management, Revolut |
AI AND MODEL RISK
10:50-11:25
Pragmatically viewing model risks in AI applications
Session details
- Credit risk fairness and explainability
- Market risks role of noise and overfitting
- Use cases of internal successes
- Developing a challenger model
- Building a roadmap for validation
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Peter Quell, Head of Portfolio Analytics, DZ Bank AG |
FRTB – PANEL DISCUSSION
11:25-12:10
Implementation of FRTB: Reviewing impacts of approaches
Session details
- Reviewing internal vs. standard model approaches
- Managing treasury trade flows post FRTB
- Externalization requirements for managing future risk
- Adaptation and readiness across the organization
- Progress towards internal model for CVA
- Cost of non-modelable risk factors
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Katie Wolicki, Head of Financial and Model Risk Regulatory Policy and Engagement, HSBC |
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Christophe Delcourt, Head of Business Development, EMEA, ActiveViam |
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Suman Datta, Head of Portfolio Quantitative Analytics, Lloyds Banking Group |
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Nicolae Mera, Head of EMEA Market Risk Analytics, Morgan Stanley |
FRAUD – PANEL DISCUSSION
11:25-12:10
Developing fraud detection and prevention techniques and keeping up with the pace of change
Session details
- Managing digital advances and changes in customer behavior
- Cross industry collaboration
- Challenges identifying money mules
- Evolution of fraud tactics post pandemic
- Leveraging data and insights across sectors
- Managing increased proliferation of scams
- Education strategies to protect potential victims
- Reviewing the responsibility of online scams
- Use case scenarios of fraud emerging across different business’
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Zara Culican, Global Head Anti Bribery, Corruption and Fraud, UBS |
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Peter May, Group Head of Wholesale, Markets and Internal Fraud, HSBC |
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Allen Anthony, Head of Financial Crime & Compliance Management, Nest Corporation |
MODEL RISK – PANEL DISCUSSION
11:25-12:10
Reviewing evolving definition of models and expansion of the scope
Session details
- Developing broader model governance processes
- Developing an integrated model risk structure
- Governance of AI & machine learning outputs
- Opportunities to automate validation
- Integrating new techniques within risk modeling
- Bank of England assessment on model risk
- Identifying potential model failures
- Engaging model risk with the strategy of the bank
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Catarina Souza, Head of Division, Model Development & Review, Bank of England |
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Yingbo Bai, MD, Head of Model Risk for Valuation Models and Methodologies, UBS |
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Gilles Artaud, Head of Group Model Risk Audit, Credit Agricole Group |
RISK FACTORS
12:10-12:45
Leveraging risk factor taxonomies for FRTB and derivative pricing models
Session details
- Overview of the different types of derivative pricing risk factors
- Analysing derivative models to derive a risk factor taxonomy
- Reviewing market risk factors taxonomies from multiple vendors
- Assessing the challenges presented by FRTB with respect to management of risk factors
- Understanding the assumptions that FRTB makes about all risk factors
- The benefits of a centralised taxonomy of risk factors across other regulations
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Charlie Browne, Head of Market Data, Risk and Quant Solution, Golden Source |
PEOPLE RISK
12:10-12:45
Managing people risk in an environment of increased risk drivers
Session details
- Medium and long term repercussions of the great resignation
- Managing increased salary expectations
- Hiring and retention of talent
- Impact of remote and hybrid working on recruitment
- The influence that cost of living crisis will have on people risk
- Factoring diversity and inclusion into people risk
- Challenges of recruiting and retaining talent
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Juergen Wienes, Member of the Managing Board, Airbus Bank GmbH |
AGENT BASED MODELING
12:10-12:45
Reviewing the agent based modelling (ABM) approach for credit and transition risks
- Assessing the definition of agent based models
- Comparing agent based models to traditional statistical and machine learning models
- Reviewing the concept of agent based models
- Examples of how ABM’s can be applied to model, credit and risks
- Factors that ABM’s incorporate
- Challenges associated with using agent based modeling approach
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Jodie Humphreys, Head of Innovation Solutions Group, Bank of America |
12:45-1:45
Lunch break and networking
CLIMATE RISK
1:45-2:20
Managing climate financial risks and reflecting climate risk into capital frameworks
Session details
- Inclusion of climate risks within ECB stress test
- Building climate within credit models
- Quantifying potential financial impacts of nature and biodiversity
- Incorporating EU taxonomy within loans process
- Steering transition of balance sheet towards low carbon economy
- Data to measure and calculate capitalization for climate risk
- Reviewing future of regulation for managing climate risk and capital
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Julius Herfel, Head of Audit, BNY Mellon |
OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE
1:45-2:20
Reimagining operational resilience within institutions
Session details
- Reviewing operational resilience from a different approach
- Alternating the perception of when an ‘event’ will happen not if
- How does this change information and tool use
- Inclusion of other aspects of resilience risk management
- Reviewing how far risk management goes to inform resilience planning
- Assessing the impact incidents have on an organizations resilience
- Case study of reimagining resilience
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Ben White, Principal Consultant – Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Risk and Crisis Management, 4C Strategies |
MODEL INVENTORY
1:45-2:20
Effectively managing expanded model inventories
Session details
- Challenge of validating new models
- Reviewing inventory consolidation
- Leveraging technologies to streamline model inventory processes
- Assessing maturity of your model inventory
- Understanding how your model inventory can support different functions
- Steps from an inventory to a model risk management system
- Flexible reporting that meets your stakeholders’ needs
- Regulatory compliance
- Managing model risk in the aggregate
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Konstantina Armata, Senior Modelling expert, former Group Head of Model Risk Management, Barclays |
STRESS TESTING – PANEL DISCUSSION
2:20-3:05
Advancing stress testing programs and reviewing changing regulatory requirements
Session details
- Aligning capital and liquidity stress testing
- Balancing regulatory and internal scenarios
- Inclusion of ESG within ICAP & IMAP
- Stress testing a recession
- Reviewing scenarios with a big impact on health of a portfolio
- Reversing models to identify risk aggregate
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Chaoxin Zheng, EMEA Head of Scenario Analytics, Morgan Stanley |
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Lena Young, Head of EMEA Treasury and Liquidity Risk, Credit Suisse |
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Nigel Milbank, Climate Programme Senior Lead, NatWest Group |
RESILIENCE – PANEL DISCUSSION
2:20-3:05
Developing IT and operational resilience and reviewing progress towards implementation
Session details
- Technology recovery programs
- Reviewing progress towards 2025 deadline
- Investment in outdated IT infrastructure
- Building and reporting resilience concepts
- Coordinating efforts across departments for a holistic view
- Impact of work from home and hybrid working on resilience plans
- DORA: Practices to monitor third party risk
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Ben Davis, Global Head of Resilience Risk, Managing Director, Barclays |
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Benjamin Brundell, Head of Operational and Technology Resilience Risk, Lloyds Banking Group |
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Daniël Smidts, Global Lead Financial Services solutions, Corporater |
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Sean Titley, Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk, Metro Bank |
BLACK BOX MODELS – PANEL DISCUSSION
2:20-3:05
Reviewing expectations and management of vendor/black box models with limited control and visibility
Session details
- Vendor compliance with model risk regulations
- Governance and oversight of vendor models
- Transparency of AI models
- Documentation for effective validation
- Visibility and transparency challenges
- Explainability of black box models
- Determining assurance and control processes
- Identifying use cases for black box models
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Emma Hagan, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, ClearBank® |
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Stuart Burns, Director, Model Strategy & Oversight, Barclays |
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Ying Poikonen, Head of Modelling Group for EMEA Region, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation |
3:05-3:35
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
REVERSE STRESS TESTING
3:35-4:10
Reviewing new developments of the financial quantitative reverse stress test (FQRST)
Session details
- Introduction to FQRST, frameworks and examples
- Practical challenges of implementation
- Assessing uncertainty vs randomness or Including qualitative information in the framework
- Application of reverse stress test in portfolio risk management, model risk management and regulatory surveillance
- Anticipating the future of reverse stress testing
- Generating ‘realist’ scenarios with machine learning software
- Identifying important variables or parameters using AAD
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Assad Bouayoun, Director, Quantitative Research Department, Daiwa Capital Markets |
RISK CULTURE
3:35-4:10
Understanding the importance of getting risk culture right and challenges with practical implementation
Session details
- Distinguishing the difference between risk culture and culture risk
- Identifying the key elements that factor into risk culture
- Reviewing the challenges of practical implementation
- Assessing the critical success factors of an effective risk culture
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Nino Gordeladze, former Head of Enterprise Risk Management, Deputy CRO, Bank of Georgia |
REGULATION
3:35-4:10
Approaching regulatory changes from a technological perspective
Session details
- Unintentional consequences of regulation
- Impact of climate change regulations on local economies
- Changes to unemployment as banks move away from industries
- Impact of sanctions regimes
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Madison Gray, Director, Global Head of Regulatory Change Management, Compliance, BNY Mellon |
RISK ANALYTICS
4:10-4:45
Understanding the importance of developing risk factor analytics to create holistic scenario development
Session details
- Reviewing the process and use of a ‘Block and Pin’ approach
- Assessing weighted flex and impacts
- Managing the process in order for risk and business buy-in
- Leveraging machine learning to study patterns
- Best practice case study
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Sunil Verma, Director, Head of EMEA FO Risk Appetite Quantitative Analytics, Citi |
BEHAVIOURAL RISK
4:10-4:45
Reviewing behavioural risk and understanding how it can impact performance and integrity
Session details
- Importance of creating the correct behaviour within an institution
- Understanding the relationship between behavioural and people risk
- Reviewing best practice to apply behavioural risk management
- Identifying behavioural risk
- Assessing what firms can do to mitigate behavioural risk
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Mirea Raaijmakers, former Global Head, Behavioural Risk Management, ING |
MODELING VOLATILITY
4:10-4:45
Modeling for macro-economic risks and capturing emerging risks
Session details
- Ensuring accuracy to make informed decisions
- Predicting future customer behavior
- Management overlays on models
- Challenges predicting based on historical data
- Quantifying risk with limited historical information
- Impact of Covid-19 and government stimulus on predictive modeling
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Jeames Horn, Deputy Head of Impairment, Starling Bank |
4:45-4:55
Chair’s closing remarks
4:55
End of Risk EMEA 2023
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Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
GIB Asset Management

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
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.

Farooq Gulzar
UK Chief Risk Officer
UBS AM

Farooq Gulzar
Farooq has been with UBS since June 2020. He previously held various senior positions in Investment Risk at Fidelity International and Royal London Asset Management. He spent close to a decade in managing hedge fund Investment Risk at Tudor Investment Corporation and City Financial. He started his risk career in the Investment Banking space, at Royal Bank of Scotland, Lehman Brothers and finally Nomura before transitioning to the alternative’s arena.

Cecilia Gejke
Chief Risk Officer
Private Banking Institution

Cecilia Gejke
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.

Emma Hagan
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
ClearBank®

Emma Hagan
Emma Hagan is Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at ClearBank, responsible for all risk and compliance-related activities. She has over 18 years’ experience in commercial and corporate banking in both first and second lines of defence.
Emma joined ClearBank from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), where she was Chief Risk Officer for EMEA, serving as part of the EMEA leadership and global risk leadership teams. Prior to SVB, she worked at Lloyds HBOS in a variety of roles.

Stephanie Ip – Lamusse
Chief Risk Officer
HSBC

Stephanie Ip – Lamussee
As CRO Wholesale, Steph oversees all risks, financial and non-financial, across HSBC UK Wholesale businesses. Steph moved to the UK in 2017 to set up the HSBC ring-fenced Wholesale Credit Risk team and has steered the bank through Brexit preparations as well as managing Covid crisis and more recently the SVB acquisition.
Prior to the UK, Steph was based in Hong Kong where she looked after Wholesale Credit Risk for HSBC Hong Kong, and a number of other HSBC Asian sites. Steph joined HSBC in 1999 in her home country Mauritius as a Foreign Exchange trader, the first female dealer in HSBC Mauritius, and her 24-year career has spanned both frontline leadership roles in Global Banking & Markets and Commercial Banking as well as in Risk, primarily in Asia Pacific. She holds a BSc Economics and a MSc Finance & Economics from the London School of Economics.

Hanna Sarraf
Chief Risk Strategy Officer
Starling International

Hanna Sarraf
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.

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

Jeff Simmons
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.

Michael Sparks
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Issuer Services
BNY Mellon

Michael Sparks
Michael Sparks is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer responsible for risk management and compliance oversight of the Issuer Services businesses at BNY Mellon.
With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Michael has risk management and first line business experience covering global custody operations, on exchange and OTC clearing and settlement, debt and equity capital markets servicing, equity and FX trading, transaction banking and private client stockbroking.
Michael began his career at Abbey Stockbrokers (part of the Santander Group), going on to join BNY Mellon in 2000. In that time, Michael has 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, Corporate Trust, Depositary Receipts and Treasury Services.

Thomas Wallace
Chief Risk Officer – Revolut UK
Revolut

Thomas Wallace
Thomas Wallace is CRO of Revolut UK, having led the Group Financial Risk function since 2021. He has nearly 20 years of experience in risk management within industry and consultancy.
Before joining Revolut, Tom was a partner in the risk function at McKinsey, where he helped build the Risk Dynamics team focusing on risk analytics and model governance as well as serving top-tier clients on sustainability and climate risk topics. Prior to this he provided quantitative advisory services to banks and insurance firms as part of the PwC actuarial practice.
Tom is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
Financial Risk

Sridhar Aiyangar
Group Head, Balance Sheet and Liquidity Management
Bank ABC

Sridhar Aiyangar
Sridhar is an executive leader with over 30 years of experience in Capital, Liquidity and Portfolio management. He has a wide-ranging experience covering Financial Markets, Corporate Treasury, Finance and Risk Management with large MNC Banks across multiple markets. He has developed and implemented several strategic Balance Sheet management initiatives to strengthen capital, funding and liquidity position while improving returns.

Valeriu Bajenaru
Global Head of Enterprise Risk Management
Credit Suisse

Valeriu Bajenaru
Valeriu Bajenaru is an established Managing Director who has led large global teams to deliver transformational change in the bank industry. He held a number of roles leading enterprise risk, stress testing and other strategic-change initiatives. Prior to banking, Valeriu worked in consulting on a diverse set of engagement across many financial institutions. Valeriu has an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Assad Bouayoun
Director in Quantitative Research Department
Daiwa Capital Markets

Assad Bouayoun
Assad Bouayoun has over 15 years of quantitative analysis experience in investment banking. He is a quantitative finance specialist focusing on total valuation including funding and capital cost, xVA, risk, stress and reverse stress testing. He was responsible for designing industry standard hedging and pricing systems in equity derivatives during his time in Commerzbank, and had the same responsibility in credit derivatives while working for Credit Agricole, and also in xVA in institutions like Lloyds, RBS and Scotiabank. He lead the modelling team responsible for the research and development of the simulation engines used for exposure computation within HSBC in London. Now he is XVA and Credit Derivative quantitative analyst at Daiwa Capital Market.
During the different projects Assad has undertaken in quantitative finance, he integrated new technologies such as Cloud, GPU and QPU; new design (parallelization using graphs) as well as new numerical methods such as AAD. He also participated to the firmwide data standardization and integration that are essential aspects of the success of these projects. He is also leading an effort to leverage quantum annealing for financial quantitative reverse stress testing.
He holds a MSc in Mathematical Trading and Finance from Cass Business School and an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from UTC (University of Technology of Compiegne, France).

Charlie Browne
Head of Market Data, Risk and Quant Solution
Golden Source

Charlie Brown
Charlie Browne is the former head of valuations at Lloyds Bank. He is currently Head of Market Data, Risk and Quant solutions at GoldenSource, as well as pursuing his PhD within the Department of Accountancy & Economics at South East Technological University, Ireland.

Sergio Cardona
Quantitative Leader
Mirai Advisory (MAT)

Sergio Cardona
Quantitative leader, specialist in machine learning, numerical methods and algorithm development: most applications based on applied math for valuation of financial products, risk model building and risk measurement.
Applying Machine Learning to trading, market risk and portfolio management at New Horizon Technologies. Trained to apply techniques and tools for enhancement of financial analysis and decision making.
Specialist of implementation of high technological solutions for financial institutions, reengineering of end-to-end processes in complex business IT and high regulated environments (EBA, BIS).

Suman Datta
Head of Portfolio Quantitative Analytics
Lloyds Banking Group

Suman Datta
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.

Christophe Delcourt
Head of Business Development, EMEA
ActiveViam

Christophe Delcourt
Christophe Delcourt is the Head of Business Development for ActiveViam in the EMEA region. With over 20 years of experience in the Capital Market industry, Christophe has worked in various IT and Business roles heading a pre-sales team for the Capital Markets solutions of Finastra, and managed the run and build team for the Treasury and Interest Rate derivatives activities of CA-CIB and the Asian Development Bank, a supranational institution. Christophe holds a Masters of Science in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from HEI – Hautes Etudes d’Ingénieur. He resides in Paris, France with his family.

John East
Head of Prudential Risk
SMBC

John East
John has an academic background in economics and over 25 years of experience in financial markets. John spent ten years in financial markets as a futures trader before taking on a role at the UK regulator in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, supervising a range of global investment banks. John then moved into risk advisory with PwC supporting a range of retail and wholesale banks on ICAAP, ILAAP, Recovery Planning and general regulatory engagement. John is currently Head of Prudential Risk at SMBC BI and oversees the Bank’s ICAAP, Recovery Plan and Sustainability Risk Management processes.

Dirk Effenberger
Head of Investment Risk, UBS Chief Investment Office
UBS AG

Dirk Effenberger
Dirk Effenberger is Head Investment Risk at UBS CIO. His team monitors key financial market risks and assesses their impact on asset classes. In addition, his team publishes the UBS Global Risk Radar – an investor’s guide to key investment risks. Dirk joined UBS in 2007. Previously, he was an economist at Deutsche Bank Research (Frankfurt and Toronto) and Swiss Re (Zurich). Dirk is a regular speaker at UBS client events and a guest lecturer to Coursera and University of St. Gallen. Dirk holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of Muenster (Germany) and studied at the University of California (USA)

Joao Figueiredo
Head of Credit Risk Modelling
Metro Bank

Joao Figueiredo
I am an experienced credit risk practitioner with 20 years’ experience as a Credit Risk Modeller and Model Risk Manager, developing and validating IRB, IFRS 9, CCAR and AML models for a variety of asset classes including Large Corporates, Wealth Management, and Retail Mortgages. I also developed new skills when working in the US, namely CCAR and AML compliance models.
Having worked in two Big 4 consulting firms and three large international banks, I have supported and led international projects, led global teams, and managed and delivered a variety of regulatory projects.

Jerome Henry
Principle Adviser
ECB

Jerome Henry
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.

Julius Herfel
Head of Audit
BNY Mellon

Julius Herfel
Julius is Head of Audit at the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) in London and in that role responsible for covering Risk Management, Treasury, Capital Adequacy and Finance in the EMEA region, and Client Asset Safety globally. Before joining BNY Mellon in 2015 he worked at PwC in Luxembourg as Risk and Regulatory Consultant, specialised in Prudential Risk/ Basel III. Julius has a Master in Economics and Political Sciences, and holds both the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) as well as the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR) Certificate.

Dilbagh Kalsi
Partner, Head of UK Practice
Fintegral

Dilbagh Kalsi
Dilbagh is a Partner at Fintegral and leads the firm’s UK practice. He specialises in the areas of traded risk and climate risk, helping banks to enhance their analytics capabilities to better identify, quantify and manage current and emerging risks. He has over 20 years of experience in trading, risk management and quantitative modelling at banks and hedge funds, including Credit Suisse, Man AHL and Nomura. Dilbagh holds a degree in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge.

Haitian Li
Managing Director, Head of Liquidity and Funding Risk Control
UBS

Haitian Li
Haitian works in UBS Treasury Risk Control. She is a Managing Director heading Liquidity and Funding Risk Control team globally. Haitian also had extensive experience in Market Risk covering products across Fixed Income, Secured Funding, and Equity Financing.

Nicolae Mera
Head of EMEA Market Risk Analytics
Morgan Stanley

Nicolae Mera

Nigel Milbank
Climate Programme Senior Lead
NatWest Group

Nigel Milbank
Nigel Milbank is a Cambridge University graduate and Chartered Accountant having trained with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. Nigel has held audit positions in Schroders and Credit Suisse as an Audit Director, following which he helped set up the Operational risk function and Product Control global assurance at Credit Suisse.
Nigel was Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk at Santander UK from 2006 to 2011 and joined RBS in 2012 to run the Group ICAAP function. He has held various stress testing delivery and improvement roles at RBS/ Natwest Group and since 2020 has been Programme Manager on the Climate Programme building climate stress capability and embedding climate financial risk management.

Sreekar Periketi
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley

Sreekar Periketi
Sreekar Periketi will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023
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Christophe Rivoire
Head of Strategy
Opensee

Christophe Rivoire
Before joining Opensee in 2019, Christophe Rivoire spent more than 25 years in the Banking industry and especially in Fixed income trading in Europe and in the US. He started his career at Louis Dreyfus Finance before joining HSBC in 1998, where he held various responsibilities. Combining Risk, Trading and Technology has always been at the center of his interests.

Charles A. Richard III
Senior Vice President of Marketing, Co-Owner
QRM

Charles A. Richard III
Charles A. Richard III is a Senior Vice President at QRM, with over 25 years of experience in enterprise risk management, balance sheet management, credit risk management, and regulatory capital management. During his tenure at QRM, he has consulted with hundreds of financial institutions worldwide and helped QRM build an international client base of over 250 long-term engagements.

Jacek Rzeznik
Vice Director, ALM Risk
mBank

Jacek Rzeznik
Jacek is a Vice-Director of ALM Risk of mBank Group (#4 Bank in Poland, part of Commerzbank Group). He is a member of the Risk Committee, CALCO and ALM Committees. He is involved in risk monitoring, governance, stress testing, contingency planning, ALM, FTP and regulatory topics.
Previously, he held Vice President role at JP Morgan Chase in London. He was responsible for credit risk of portfolio of Emerging Markets FI & Sovereigns.
Jacek holds a MSc. in Management and Regulation of Risk from LSE and a BSc. in International Business Administration from RSM Erasmus University.
Jacek regularly presents at conferences in London, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw.
Privately, father of two boys, whom he infects with passion to skiing and sailing.

Olmo Vazquez
Global CEO of Mirai Advisory
Mirai Advisory (MAT)

Olmo Vazquez
I am the Global CEO and Co-Founder of Mirai Advisory. Our company was founded ten years ago as a niche consulting firm focused on Balance Sheet Management. After three years, we began developing our own ALM tool, called Mirai ALM Tool. This is a cloud-native solution that has been successfully deployed in over 9 countries, with a G-SIB as one of our clients.

Sunil Verma
Head of EMEA FO Risk Appetite Quantitative Analytics
Citi

Sunil Verma
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
Neels Vosloo covers Regulatory Capital Policy and Advocacy for EMEA within Enterprise Capital Management at Bank of America. Before joining BofA, Neels headed up the Traded Risk Modelling team in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in London; he has held risk modelling roles across market and counterparty risk, including as Senior Risk Specialist in the Traded Risk Department at the UK FSA and PRA. Neels holds degrees in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Actuarial Science from the University of Pretoria.

Katie Wolicki
Head of Financial and Model Risk Regulatory Policy and Engagement
HSBC

Katie Wolicki
Katherine leads the Global Financial and Model Risk Regulatory Policy and Engagement team for Risk at HSBC. The team acts as the external regulatory interface for the Wholesale Credit, Traded Risk, Treasury Risk Management and Global Risk Analytics functions and includes the provision of guidance on regulatory risk matters, regulatory policy interpretation and industry engagement. She has been with HSBC for eight and a half years. Prior to this she was based in Brussels as a Public Affairs consultant specialising in financial services regulation. Katherine has an MA in International Economic Relations from American University and a Maîtrise in European and International Law from the University of La Reunion. She is a fluent French speaker.

Lena Young
Head of EMEA Treasury and Liquidity Risk,
Credit Suisse

Lena Young
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.

Chaoxin Zheng
EMEA Head of Stress Testing Analytics
Morgan Stanley

Chaoxin Zheng
Chaoxin Zheng will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023
Non-Financial Risk

Lukky Ahmed
CEO & Co-Founder
Climate X

Lukky Ahmed
Lukky Ahmed’s got more than a decade of international banking experience with leading institutions, covering risk management, regulatory change, stress testing and consultancy. Never one to shy away from the big problems, he went into the rabbit hole of understanding how climate change would impact the world’s financial stability.

Allen Anthony
Head of Financial Crime & Compliance Management
Nest Corporation

Allen Anthony
Allen is the Head of Financial Crime and Compliance Management at Nest. His background is Audit with EY and then Engineering Consultancy including working on the London Olympics. He joined Nest when it was a start up to support the introduction of Automatic Enrolment legislation in the UK and worked in a variety of roles during its development. The Scheme currently stands as one of the biggest in the UK by membership with over 11 million members and circa £25 bn AUM.

Megan Brown
Head of International
LogicGate

Megan Brown
Megan Brown has spent the past 15+ years in SAAS and technology leadership roles, and for the past 6 years, she has worked alongside the founding team at LogicGate to help scale the Risk Cloud, a next gen GRC workflow automation saas platform around the world. Megan currently works in the UK as the Head of International Sales after having developed the Strategic Alliances and Partner function at LogicGate. Megan leads the International market expansion strategy and sales team covering global markets. In her free time, she loves podcasts and is a host herself. You can hear more from Megan on LogicGate’s GRC & Me Podcast.

Benjamin Brundell
Head of Operational and Technology Resilience Risk
Lloyds banking Group

Benjamin Brundell
Ben leads LBG’s oversight of operational resilience and technology resilience risks. Ben enjoys building functions that anticipate new risk challenges, develop innovative ways of optimising the treatment of risk, and help our business succeed. He has a passion for coaching, enhancing capability and bringing executives and regulators on the journey. As LBG embarks on it’s biggest transformation yet, Operational and Technology Resilience remains at the forefront of our mission to Help Britain Prosper.

Alia Cooper
Wholesale Head of CDD
HSBC

Alia Cooper
Alia Cooper has worked for HSBC for 10 years in a variety of Financial Crime Risk focussed roles. She was heavily involved in the deployment of HSBC’s Global Standard FCR framework in the Europe region and has held roles in KYC Operations, Business and Compliance. In her current role Alia is focussed on the future of CDD, with an emphasis on efficient and effective compliance with the global regulatory environment in which HSBC operates.

Zara Culican
Global Head Anti Bribery, Corruption and Fraud
UBS

Zara Culican
Zara Culican will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Ben Davis
Global Head of Resilience Risk, Managing Director
Barclays

Ben Davis
Ben Davis currently leads the Global Operational Resilience function within Barclays Bank whilst also performing wider Operational Risk responsibilities as part of the Managing Director leadership team. Prior to his time in Barclays, Ben led the Operational Risk and Resilience division within Sainsburys Bank where he was accountable for all aspects of the Operational Risk Framework together with Control Assurance and Crisis & Incident Management. Ben has also held a number of senior roles both within, and outside of, Risk across the Financial and Professionals sector.

Keith Davies
Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer
Admiral PLC

Keith Davies
Keith is currently Group Chief Risk and Compliance Officer (CRCO) of Admiral Group Plc, having previously been a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Risk & Audit Committee for two entities within the Admiral Group.
He has extensive experience in risk management and governance, having worked in insurance, asset management and banking for 25 years. Prior to joining Admiral, Keith was previously CRCO at Federated Hermes Limited – the fund management company that has been at the forefront of sustainability investing and global stewardship since 1983. Before that, Keith held a number of senior roles at Prudential and M&G Plc (M&G) – being the first Chief Risk Officer at M&G having helped the company de-merge from Prudential Plc. He was previously Group-wide Chief Internal Audit Executive for all Prudential’s insurance and asset management companies. He has also held senior roles in risk management and audit at Standard Chartered and Deutsche Bank and spent two years within the Policy team at the Financial Services Authority. In addition to his NED role at Admiral, Keith is also a Trustee for the International House Trust Charity and on the Risk and Audit Committee at Glamorgan CCC and can therefore give a perspective of governance from both an Executive and independent viewpoint. Keith has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University and an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Bristol, has certifications on ESG Investing and Sustainability & Climate Risk, and helped write the ESG Investment Handbook.

Federica De Vincenzi
Head of Climate Risk, Scenario Expansion and RST Validation
Barclays

Federica De Vincenzi
Federica joined Barclays in 2017 as Lead Developer for Stress Testing on the Retail portfolio after eight years spent in financial services across Italy and UK and a double Master in Economics and Finance.
In 2019 she transitioned to the validation space where was appointed Head of Scenario Expansion and Reverse Stress; thanks to this role she gained great insight of large model frameworks critical for the Bank as well as exposure to Senior stakeholders.
In 2021 her scope expanded to the validation of Climate risk models used for regulatory Stress Test or adopted to monitor Barclays carbon emissions as part of the 2050 net-zero commitment.
Being keen on transformative processes, she is leading an initiative that brings together all the skills – consolidating academia and business practices – to formulate responses to challenges arising from the evolution of climate risk management and modelling.
In 2022, she has been nominated Diversity & Inclusion champion; whilst advising Senior Management across the board on the agenda implementation, she maintains a strong focus on Gender and Inspire pillars.

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

Sophie Dupre-Echeverria
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.

Vivien Foetz
Head of Financial Risk
Gulf International Bank Ltd

Vivien Foetz
Vivien is Head of Financial Risk, managing investment, credit and prudential risks for GIB UK across asset management and banking. He previously held roles within the risk departments of Invesco (UK) and Amundi (Luxembourg). Vivien holds a MSc in financial markets from ICN Business School and a postgraduate degree in business law from the university of Nancy (France).

Maya Goethals
Director, Compliance and Risk Management
Bank of America Merill Lynch

Maya Goethals
Maya is an experienced professional focusing on Data Protection, Privacy Regulation and Regulatory Change. In her role as a Risk Manager in EPCOR Privacy, she works with the EMEA teams to manage the risk of regulatory changes and rulings and ensure risk management and compliance are across the forefront of BAC’s business operations.
Maya has over 10 years’ experience delivering security, regulatory and data protection projects across various industries including Investment Management and Retail Banking. She has acquired the skillset to effectively enable transformation within challenging business and IT environments, working with a multitude of technical, organisational and C-suite stakeholders.
Maya is a certified privacy professional and holds CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, CIPP/US, CIPP/A and CISSP certification. She holds a BSc in Business Economics and an MSc in Information management from Tilburg Business School.

Nino Gordeladze
former Head of Enterprise Risk Management, Deputy CRO
Bank of Georgia

Nino Gordeladze
Nino’s 18 years career in risk management spans across systemically important listed banks both in emerging and developed markets, the Big Four Consulting (EY, KPMG) and listed multinational companies in Australia. Nino accumulated unique experience in each of the Three Lines [of Defence] as well as external assurance providers/advisors granting her a broad perspective on important risk management matters.
Most recently, Nino led the creation of the first Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function at Bank of Georgia, the London Stock Exchange listed systemically important bank in Georgia. This entailed strengthening the Risk Culture and the effectiveness of the Three Lines [of Defense – LOD] Model across the organization. In her previous role as the Chief Auditor at the company, Nino modernized the Internal Audit function and influenced the introduction of many innovative, advanced risk management frameworks throughout the Group.
Prior to relocating from Australia, Nino held senior risk management roles in both 1LOD and 2LOD at Westpac Banking Corporation (the second largest bank in Australia) based in Sydney.

Imtiaz Hussain
Managing Director and Deputy Chief Auditor
BNY Mellon

Imtiaz Hussain
Imtiaz Hussain is the Deputy Chief Auditor at BNY Mellon responsible for Investment Management and Wealth Management, Human Resources and ESG, Global Compliance, and Audit Innovation & Analytics. His primary responsibilities include creation of Internal Audit strategy, and risk based annual audit plan; delivery of audit projects in a timely manner and within budget; and seamless operations of the Audit Function. Imtiaz is responsible for driving Audit’s Agile Transformation initiative, and sponsoring strategy for auditing ESG.
Imtiaz received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Slippery Rock University and completed his MBA in International Finance and Strategy from George Washington University. Imtiaz is a Certified Public Accountant and holds several certifications in the field of Banking and Project Management.

Uwe Klapproth
Head of Group Risk Management
Euroclear

Uwe Klapproth
Dr. Uwe Klapproth is serving as a Head of Group Risk and a Non-Executive Director / Board member in the banking sector. He studied Business Management and Criminal Science..

Germar Knochlein
Head of Division
ECB

Germar Knochlein
Germar is Head of Division in ECB’s Directorate General Systemic and International Banks, which is in charge of the line supervision of G-SIBs. He is overseeing several Joint Supervisory Teams as well as project work related to the implementation of new regulatory approaches. Before joining ECB in 2014 from the German Federal Agency for Financial Market Stabilisation, he was responsible for the oversight over German public banks that benefitted from state support as well as the development of resolution plans. Following university studies in physics and business administration, Germar has worked in commercial banks since 1997, mainly in risk controlling and portfolio management roles

Nitesh Kumar
Managing Director, Global Head of Cyber, Payment Systems Risk and Strategic Projects
BNP Paribas

Nitesh Kumar
Nitesh Kumar is the Global Head of Cyber and Payment Systems Risk for BNP Paribas Group. He is an internationally recognized executive with a background in Payment Systems Risk Management, Cyber Security Resilience, Data Privacy, and Operational & Technology Risk Management. He has extensive global experience in the Financial Services in the United States, United Kingdom and India. He has successfully created a sustainable Risk and Audit teams where pragmatic and collaborative risk management is a daily part of corporate decision-making supporting the Cyber Resilience, Digital Transformation, Secure Cloud adoption and innovation strategies.

Peter May
Group Head of Wholesale, Markets and Internal Fraud
HSBC

Peter May
Peter joined HSBC in 1997 and was worked across various businesses in front-line and risk, control roles. Since 2020, Peter has lead Risk Stewardship (2LOD) oversight activities across the Wholesale and Markets businesses as well as leading on enterprise-wide internal fraud. With deep SME knowledge gleaned from various international assignments, Peter leads on the policies and controls which underpin HSBC’s fraud defences and he works closely with Financial Crime and Risk teams across the firm to deliver targeted anti-fraud frameworks. Key priorities for Peter include the transition to digital and greenwashing risks.

Mirea Raaijmakers
former Global Head, Behavioural Risk Management
ING

Mirea Raaijmakers
First psychologist ever appointed by a central bank – The Dutch Central Bank – to use her specific skillset in supervision. First behavioural scientist appointed as Global Head Behavioural Risk Management at a global bank with a direct reporting line to the ExCo. Editor and lead author of the highly influential book – Supervision of Behaviour & Culture. Worked with regulators across the globe including the ECB, NY FED, MAS and APRA in embedding behavioural insights. Key-note speaker and advisor across the globe. Unique experience in execution of behavioural risk reviews and reveal blind spots and unknown behavioural risks. Broad experience with applying behavioural insights and realising behavioural change in renown profit and governmental organisations

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

Jeff Simmons
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.

Daniël Smidts
Global Lead Financial Services Solutions
Corporater

Daniël Smidts
Daniël has over 20 years of experience in providing financial services institutions with risk advisory and assurance services, including risk and regulatory transformation. He is currently globally responsible for the Governance, Performance, Risk & Compliance (GPRC) technology solutions offered by Corporater for financial services clients.
Prior to joining Corporater in 2023, he led the Governance, Risk and Compliance practice of EY, first in the Netherlands and later in Norway.
Daniël holds a University degree in Business Economics and Accounting and is a certified internal auditor with the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Lorraine Solway
Director of Risk
Nest Corporation

Lorraine Solway
Lorraine joined Nest as Head of Risk in 2021. She has worked across various sectors but is strongly established in Financial Services, having worked in a global risk role for Zurich and, prior to that, in similar roles for Nationwide Buidling Society. Before joining Nationwide Lorraine worked for KPMG in their IARCS (Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services) team.
Lorraine has nearly 20 years experience of risk and controls alongside a Masters degree in Risk Management and post graduate qualifications in audit and accounting. She has presented on a number of topics for the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, sharing her passion with both peers and the next generation of risk, compliance and audit professionals.

Andrew Sheen
Director
AJ Sheen Consulting

Andrew Sheen
Andrew is best know for the 8 years he spent at the UK regulator, firstly in the FSA and subsequently at the PRA. During his time at the regulator, Andrew managed the Operational Risk Review team and represented the UK on the BCBS’ and EBA’s Operational Risk working groups. After life at the regulator Andrew joint HSBC and then Credit Suisse before retiring in 2019 and setting up a consultancy to provide assistance and training in Operational Risk matters. Andrew actively promotes the development and discipline of Operational Risk and is a Fellow of the Institute of Operational Risk.

Sean Titley
Director of Enterprise and Operational Risk
Metro Bank

Sean Titley
Sean has 30 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 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. His team works closely with the first line on approaches to Fraud, 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 Advisory Committee, providing advice on its approach to Operational Risk and running the IOR’s Chapters across the globe.
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Wiehann Weerts
Director
Monocle Solutions

Wiehann Weerts
Wiehann Weerts, Director at Monocle Solutions, gained over 15 years of consulting experience before moving to the Netherlands to lead the growth and delivery of Monocle’s European expansion. During his time at the company, he has been responsible for successfully designing and delivering a diverse range of projects and engagements at a broad range of retail and investment banks in South Africa and Europe.
In his role as Consulting Director for Europe, Wiehann engages with clients at an executive level to advise and assist in translating client requirements into pragmatic approaches and executable project deliverables. In this capacity, he is also responsible for the leadership and management of consulting teams across multiple engagements, clients and jurisdictions. Wiehann’s exposure to projects across a diverse range of clients and project environments has afforded him a deep understanding of the functioning of banks, not only at a business level, but also at a systems, process, and data level. He provides SME input on large change projects driven by regulatory developments, as well as innovation initiatives and large system implementations

Ben White
Principal Consultant – Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Risk and Crisis Management
4C Strategies

Ben White
Ben is a Principal consultant at 4C Strategies with over 16 years’ experience working with a broad array of different clients to deliver operational resilience, business continuity programmes and crisis management solutions to them. Ben has been fortunate to work with some of the World’s leading brands in supporting them building resilience capability, whether this is the start of a journey by helping them to understand ‘what good looks like’ or a review of current resilience capability making recommendations to enable them to work towards achieving organisational resilience.
As a Principal Consultant Ben has experience from projects across the public, private and military sector. He has assumed primary responsibility for elements of a large number of business resilience programmes in a wide variety of areas including but not limited to public health, emergency management, counter terrorism, telecom resilience, corporate crisis management including retail, financial risks and military operations to a wide range of clients in the UK, Europe, the US and Asia.
Prior to 4C Strategies Ben spent 10 years working for the Emergency Planning Department of the London Fire Brigade and his last role there was a Deputy Head of Emergency Planning.
Ben has a broad academic background combined with specialisation within crisis management and Business Continuity Management and holds an MSc in Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management from Leicester University

Juergen Wienes
Member of the Managing Board
Airbus Bank GMBH

Juergen Wienes
Since 2017, Juergen is Member of the Managing Board at Airbus Bank GmbH, a 100% captive institution within Airbus. On the Managing Board, he is responsible for Risk Management & Control, Portfolio Management, Finance, Legal & Compliance and Banking Services.
During his 30+ years of professional life in the industry, Juergen’s expertise spans from Risk Management, Sales, Compliance across Investment Banking, Corporate Banking and Corporate Real Estate. Next to his global positions, he covered markets locally in Germany, UK, US and Italy.
Model Risk and Technology Trends

Konstantina Armata
Senior Modelling expert, former Group Head of Model Risk Management
Barclays

Konstantina Armata
Konstantina is a highly experienced Financial Risk professional with over 20 years career in Banking in various Quantitative Modelling roles, most recently as the Group Head of Model Risk Management at Barclays. Prior to that, she worked at Deutsche Bank where she built and led the Bank’s Model Risk Management function and before that at UBS in various quantitative roles in both the Front Office and Risk. Konstantina has extensive experience in developing Model Risk Management frameworks including methodologies to assess and quantify Model Uncertainties and their impact on the output of the framework they are used for (e.g. Capital in stress, IFRS9 etc). Konstantina’s most recent work involves Climate Transition modelling. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College, London and an MSc and BSc in Mathematics from ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France and the University of Patras, Greece respectively.

Gilles Artaud
Head of Group Model Risk Audit
Credit Agricole Group

Gilles Artaud
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.

Yingbo Bai
MD, Head of Model Risk for Valuation Models and Methodologies
UBS

Yingbo Bai
Yingbo joined UBS in 2010 and is currently co-head of the Model Risk Management and Control function with focus on valuation models and methodologies. Prior to UBS, he worked in various roles across quant and model risk control at CICC, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

Tanveer Bhatti
Group Head of Model Risk Management
Revolut

Tanveer Bhatti
Tanveer Bhatti is a risk manager, physicist, and certified finance professional with an extensive career encompassing sell-side and buy-side positions in investment banks, private banking, and asset management in London and New York. Renowned for his approach combining analytical rigor and practical relevance, he is particularly interested in the practical implications of new technologies, markets, electronic trading, modelling approaches, and data. His focus lies in leveraging these elements to enable emerging or non-existent products, services, business models, and societal advancement. Recently, he has been exploring the capabilities of artificial intelligence, large-scale data analysis, improved data analysis methods, accelerated delivery, and automated decision-making. He holds degrees in mathematics and physics from Cambridge University, including postgraduate studies, and has held senior global roles in Tier 1 GSIBs in the US and UK, overseeing large, geographically dispersed finance and risk management teams.
types. Advanced IRB status was delivered on the strength of these areas

Stuart Burns
Director, Model Strategy & Oversight
Barclays

Stuart Burns
The Model Strategy & Oversight team was set up to provide strategic guidance on model build and remediation. Stuart’s responsibilities include IRB models, IFRS9 and Stress Testing.
Stuart has over 25 years experience delivering credit risk, stress testing and economic capital models. This includes roles as:
Senior Technical Specialist at the PRA
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

Philippe Coué
Head of CACIB Data Office
Credit Agricole CIB

Philippe Coué
Philippe joined Crédit Agricole CIB in 2016 as Managing Director to follow ECB review of BCBS 239. Prior to that, Philippe held several risk and IT positions within HSBC Global Banking & Market and Société Générale CIB in Paris where he managed IS strategy and transformation program for equity derivatives, market risk and corporate banking activities.
He is expert in architecture, advanced analytics and digital transformation, graduated with a master’s degree in mathematics applied to finance.

Sam Das
Director of IT Risk
Metro Bank

Sam Das
Sam will be speaking at CeFPro’s Risk EMEA 2023

Madison Gray
Global Head of Regulatory Change Management
BNY Mellon

Madison Gray
Madison joined BNY Mellon’s Risk and Compliance team in 2017 and has held a variety of roles across EMEA and Global Regulatory Change Management. She has a Legal background, and her early career was spent in Legal team at Abrdn and Aegon Asset Management, as well as a 1st Line Regulatory Risk role with Natwest.
Madison is currently repsonsible Global Regulatory Change Management. This involves supporting the identification, allocation and assessment of new regulations to BNY Mellon’s entities and LOBs, across APAC, EMEA and Americas.

Francis Gross
Senior Adviser
European Central Bank

Francis Gross
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 Fintech
Bank of Finland

Aleksi Grym
Aleksi Grym is Head of Fintech at the Bank of Finland. His team manages a portfolio of projects covering financial technology, new payment systems and digital currencies. He is a member of the ECB’s digital euro project steering group and has been a member in several other international working groups. Before joining the Finnish central bank Aleksi worked in the consulting and technology industry for over fifteen years in London and Helsinki, advising organisations ranging from SME’s to leading global corporations.

Farooq Gulzar
UK Chief Risk Officer
UBS AM

Farooq Gulzar
Farooq has been with UBS since June 2020. He previously held various senior positions in Investment Risk at Fidelity International and Royal London Asset Management. He spent close to a decade in managing hedge fund Investment Risk at Tudor Investment Corporation and City Financial. He started his risk career in the Investment Banking space, at Royal Bank of Scotland, Lehman Brothers and finally Nomura before transitioning to the alternative’s arena.

Emma Hagan
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
ClearBank®

Emma Hagan
Emma Hagan is Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at ClearBank, responsible for all risk and compliance-related activities. She has over 18 years’ experience in commercial and corporate banking in both first and second lines of defence.
Emma joined ClearBank from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), where she was Chief Risk Officer for EMEA, serving as part of the EMEA leadership and global risk leadership teams. Prior to SVB, she worked at Lloyds HBOS in a variety of roles.

Jeames Horn
Deputy Head of Impairment
Starling Bank

Jeames Horn
Impairment Manager at Starling Bank, 6 years credit risk management experience across commercial loan underwriting and Retail Loan Loss Provisioning Commonwealth Bank in Australia. Strong focus on expected loss models and model adjustments in uncertain economic conditions.

Jodie Humphreys
Head of Innovation Solutions Group
Bank of America

Jodie Humphreys
I am a quant and data scientist with more than 15 years’ experience working in Finance in London during which time I have developed specialist knowledge in derivative pricing, numerical methods, statistics and machine learning. Today I work in a global risk function and lead a range of initiatives from synthetic data to behavioural finance, seeking to solve complex problems with robust and modern computational techniques.

Vivek Jain
Head of Audit – Insurance, Pensions & Investments
Lloyds Banking Group

Vivek Jain
Senior Audit Leader with multi-disciplinary experience of over 22 years in the area of business and integrated technology auditing. Expertise in products (retail, markets, insurance and investments), digital, technology, cyber, resilience, emerging technologies, data and sourcing. Building collaboration and engagement across senior leaders, regulators and control functions. Firm believer in coaching and supporting a diverse team to help fulfill their potential. Currently, Head of Audit with Lloyds Banking Group covering Insurance, Stockbroking and strategic technology platforms, security, resilience, digital transformation, data management and migration. Previously, worked with Deutsche Bank, Bank of Africa UK, Credit Suisse, KPMG and Oracle.

Basima Khuram
Director, International Lead, Digital Assets FCC Advisory
BNY Mellon

Basima Khuram
Basima Khuram will be speaking at Risk EMEA 2023

Marion Laboure
Senior Economist
Deutsche Bank

Marion Laboure
Marion Laboure is a Senior Economist at Deutsche Bank in London and Lecturer at Harvard University. She has extensive private sector, public policy, and monetary policy experience, including at the European Commission, the IMF, the Luxembourg Central Bank, and Barclays. She received first prize from the American Society of Actuaries, Revue Banque nominated her as a rising star in finance, she is part of the 45 standout women in fintech, and Business Insider named her a cryptocurrency mastermind. She is the author of Democratising Finance published by Harvard University Press

Carlos Martin
Executive Director – CIB Markets Operational Risk Management
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Carlos Martin
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.

Armel Massimina
Operational Risk Lead
National Bank of Kuwait (International)

Armel Massimina
I am currently heading the Operational Risk Function at the National Bank of Kuwait (International).
I have spent over 10 years designing, implementing, and embedding Operational Risk frameworks across various sectors of Financial Services, including Retail Banking, Payments, and Financial Technology.
I also sit on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Operational Risk as Head of Membership for England and Wales.

Mo Philip
Head of Information Security, Retail
Legal & General Plc

Mo Philips
Mo brings a wealth of experience covering first, second and third line roles in Cyber, Security, Risk Management and Resilience across several sectors including Financial Services, Technology, Retail, UK Government and Telecommunications.
He joined L&G as a Head of IT Risk in early 2022 and currently leads the security teams across a diverse business that provides life insurance, pensions, mortgages and fintech services to retail customers. He is well versed in delivering initiatives aimed at driving technology risk management and security good practice into organisational culture, for firms that deliver high levels of IT transformation and change and utilise agile frameworks.

Ying Poikonen
Head of Modelling Group for EMEA Region
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Ying Poikonen
Dr. Ying Poikonen is currently the Head of Modelling Group for EMEA region in SMBC. She is responsible for the quantification of Credit, Market, Liquidity, Operational and Climate Change related financial risks for both internal and regulatory purpose, as well as the development of Model Risk Management and Stress Testing for EMEA region. Prior to joining SMBC, Ying worked in Deutsche bank. She holds a PhD degree in Engineering from Warwick University.

Peter Quell
Head of Portfolio Analytics
DZ Bank AG

Peter Quell
Peter Quell is Head of the Portfolio Analytics Team for Market and Credit Risk in the Risk Controlling Unit of DZ BANK AG in Frankfurt. He is responsible for methodological aspects of Internal Risk Models, Economic Capital and Model Risk. Prior to joining DZ BANK AG Peter was Manager at d-fine GmbH where he dealt with various aspects of Risk Management Systems in the Banking Industry. He holds a MSc. in Mathematical Finance from Oxford University and a PhD in Mathematics. Peter is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Risk Model Validation and a founding board member of the Model Risk Management International Association (mrmia.org).

Catarina Souza
Head of Division, Model Development & Review
Bank of England

Catarina Souza
Catarina Souza is the Head of Model Development and Review Division at the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). Prior to joining the PRA, Catarina was a Senior Expert for Model Risk Management at ING, where she led the implementation of the model risk management framework globally for the bank, with a significant focus on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Catarina has over 16 years of working experience, including leading multicultural international teams successfully delivering cross-border projects in the areas of credit risk and model risk management. 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.

Christophe Rivoire
Head of Strategy
Opensee

Christophe Rivoire
Before joining Opensee in 2019, Christophe Rivoire spent more than 25 years in the Banking industry and especially in Fixed income trading in Europe and in the US. He started his career at Louis Dreyfus Finance before joining HSBC in 1998, where he held various responsibilities. Combining Risk, Trading and Technology has always been at the center of his interests.

Amanda Whiteley
Sector Director
Redis

Amanda Whiteley
Amanda Whitley will be speaking at CeFPro’s upcoming Risk EMEA Convention
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Venue & FAQs
Leonardo Royal Hotel London
Tower Bridge
45 Prescot Street
London
E1 8GP
We have secured a preferential rate at the venue from £213.00 inc VAT, based on single occupancy room only, double occupancy will be charged with £20.00 supplement fee. To book a room please go to the webpage Leonardo Royal Tower Bridge or phone (+44 (0) 870 4100 800) for the Reservations team quoting the block code LHCFPA140623
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I share my thought leadership at Risk EMEA?
Will there be opportunities to network with other attendees?
- Breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
- Drinks reception at the end of day-1
- Q&As, panel discussions, and audience participation technology
What is included within the registration fee?
Where can I find the Convention documentation and speaker presentations?
*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?
Are there any rules on dress code?
Register
Register for Risk EMEA today and join the likes of 150+ industry professionals and subject matter experts looking to engage in meaningful conversation and discuss the latest developments and challenges within the risk sector.
Register before June 2 and take advantage of our summer special rate.
Don’t miss out, we only have a limited number available and prices will increase.
Need assistance with your registration? Get in touch with us via email below, or call us on +44 (0)207 164 6582
Summer special rate | Expires June 2
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