
Overview
With the rise of digitisation and connectivity in the financial system, risks have become more complex and diverse, the job of Risk managers have had to adapt accordingly. The industry has undergone significant changes in the past decade and risk management divisions at financial institutions have had to evolve to keep pace with technological advances and changing economic landscapes. From the use of advanced analytics, machine learning, new APIs and algorithms, the effective management of risk has become a critical function for organisations across industries in an era where technology is playing a major role.
Agenda
- 13:30 – 14:00
Registration & Refreshments
- 14:00 – 14:15
Welcome & Opening Remarks
- Speakers: Paul Tivnann
- 14:15 – 15:00
Fireside Chat with Kanwardeep Ahluwalia
- Speakers: Kanwardeep Ahluwalia
Moderators: Leila Sadiq - 15:00 – 15:45
Panel Discussion – Risk management and the role of new technologies
- Speakers: Tommaso Cotroneo, Carlos Torrero
Moderators: Zane Van Dusen - 15:45 – 16:15
Economic Outlook
- Speakers: , Zeynep Ozturk
- 16:15 – 17:30
Networking Drinks
Featured Speakers
Zeynep Ozturk
Zeynep joined Deutsche Bank in September 2022 as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for the Private Bank’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Based in London as part of the Private Bank’s global CIO organization, she is responsible for developing the EMEA (ex-Germany) house view and presenting it to clients, media and other stakeholders. Zeynep is also a voting member of the International Private Bank’s Multi Asset Investment Committee.
Before joining Deutsche Bank, Zeynep worked for Citigroup in various senior leadership roles in its Wealth and Institutional Markets businesses, across Istanbul, London and New York. In her last role, Zeynep was the Head of Capital Markets, North America and Latin America for Citigroup Global Wealth. She also worked for Citigroup Global Markets in London from 2005, starting her career at Citibank Corporate Bank in its Istanbul office in 2000.
Zeynep holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Middle East Technical University in Turkey and studied Russian language and literature at Ankara University.
Tommaso Cotroneo
Tom joined Algebris in 2017 as Chief Risk Officer. His main focus is on further development of the existing risk management framework and technology for the firm.
Before joining Algebris Tom was Global Head of Equity Derivatives Strategy as well as Head of UK Equity Derivatives Sales for UniCredit based in London.
Previously he spent many years in both Tokyo and Hong Kong, at first as a structurer with Merrill Lynch and then tasked with building the Equity Derivatives Trading and Structuring business for ANZ in Asia. Tom started his career as an Equity Derivatives Strategist at Merrill Lynch in London.
Tom is a trustee of Heartquake, a UK charity dedicated to raising funds for the earthquake hit areas of Central Italy; he is also actively involved in fundraising efforts for Solace Women’s Aid in London.
Tom holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Groningen and an MSc in Computer Engineering cum laude from the University of Napoli. A keen sportsman from a very young age, he still competes in long distance running and cycling events.
Kanwardeep Ahluwalia
Kanwardeep joined Bank of America in 2015, initially leading market risk regulatory dialogue with the PRA for Merrill Lynch International and providing general support to the EMEA CRO.
During Brexit, he established market risk teams in Dublin and Paris and obtained market risk capital model approvals from the Central Bank of Ireland and the ACPR in France. Kanwardeep provides ongoing market risk expertise for the three CROs in EMEA.
In 2019, Kanwardeep was made co-head of market risk for FICC and in 2021 the market risk responsibility for Equities was added and Kanwardeep was named co-head of Global Markets Risk alongside Timo Van Ritbergen.
Kanwardeep joined Bank of America from Swiss Re where he was the Group Head of Financial Risk Management, which included the role of CRO for Asset Management. During 7 years at Swiss Re Kanwardeep was also the Reinsurance CRO for EMEA and the CRO for Swiss Re Europe. He was a management participant on two group board committees.
Prior to that, he worked for 12 years at Bear Stearns where he had a number of positions leading to the roles of CRO for Europe & Asia and Global Head of Market Risk. This was preceded by a period working in regulation for the UK’s former Securities & Futures Authority.
Kanwardeep holds a degree in Physics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.
Paul Tivnann
Paul Tivnann is the Global Head of Enterprise Sales. Since joining Bloomberg in 1999, Paul has held various senior level management positions within Sales and Product departments, before his most recent position, leading our Enterprise sales effort globally. Reporting to the Company President, Paul is responsible for the commercial success of the Enterprise Data Business, Enterprise Sales Business and Quant Analysis platforms among other things.
Paul began his career as an interest rate and bond option broker, having worked for Tullett and Tokyo and later FIMAT. A graduate of Bristol University, Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in physics.
Carlos Torrero
Carlos is the Global Head of Asset Liability Management Technology in Corporate Treasury at Goldman Sachs. Prior to taking on this role, he held various positions across Global Markets Technology and was responsible for EMEA Credit Trading Technology. During his time at Goldman Sachs, he has lead numerous projects related to risk and regulatory compliance.
Leila Sadiq
Leila currently manages the Data Content group within Enterprise Data at Bloomberg. In this role, Leila has a global remit that includes Regulatory and Accounting products, ESG Data, Risk and Investment, Liquidity Assessment (LQA) and all Reference Data. Prior to that, Leila was the global head of Front Office and Treasury within Enterprise Products.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Leila has spent more than 10 years in investment banking and capital markets where she held various roles. She led the macro energy quant team and prior to that she was a Foreign Exchange Quant developing advanced pricing models and numerical techniques to cater for short dated and long dated FX derivatives as well as Interest Rate Hybrids.
Zane Van Dusen
Zane Van Dusen manages Bloomberg’s suite of Risk and Investment Analytics products globally. In this role, he works with quants and engineers to build data-driven analytics that address a wide range of client needs from investment research to portfolio construction to regulatory reporting. Prior to this role, Zane managed the implementation of risk management, stress testing and reporting systems for Credit Suisse’s Treasury and Liquidity Risk Management groups.