Risk Live Europe 2023
Risk Live Europe 2023 will host OpRisk Europe, Buy-Side Risk Europe, Fx Markets Europe, Risk Europe, FX Markets e-FX Awards, Energy Risk Awards.
Five events in one – Risk.net comes to life under one roof
The hottest topics | Influential speakers | The risk ecosystem
Risk Live Europe brings management and risk transfer professionals from across the capital markets industry to benchmark, share insights and reconnect. Risk Live Europe 2023 will bring together five events under one roof – Risk Europe, OpRisk Europe, Investment Risk Europe, ESG & Climate Risk, and FX Markets Europe.
The hottest topics affecting all risk management professionals are covered in the morning sessions on the main stage. In the afternoon, guests are able to select the event track most relevant to them for a drill-down boardroom session and interactive discussions with peers.
A five-in-one conference experience
Risk Europe
Risk Europe brings together chief risk officers and senior risk managers from leading financial institutions to gain the insight required to thrive in the new era of risk management.
OpRisk Europe
OpRisk Europe is the leading regional event dedicated to operational risk, where operational risk management experts from across Emea convene to discuss the most pressing topics on the minds of industry professionals.
Investment Risk Europe
At Investment Risk Europe, leaders of buy-side risk management and investment strategy meet, learn and get ahead in the new era of risk. Join investment managers, asset owners and hedge funds to gain inspiration, improve investment decisions, demystify the complexities of market risk and shape the future of your industry.
FX Markets Europe
At FX Markets Europe, foreign exchange traders meet, network, exchange cutting-edge ideas, learn from thought leaders, discover the latest innovations in technology, and explore the state of the FX markets and where they are heading.
ESG & Climate Risk Europe
New to Risk Live Europe 2023: ESG & Climate Risk Europe will gather senior risk management and investment strategy decision-makers from asset managers, hedge funds, life insurance firms, pension funds, and investment banks in the UK and Europe.
2023 speakers

Mark Manning
Sustainable finance and stewardship lead
Financial Conduct Authority
Mark Manning leads the FCA’s policy work on sustainable finance and investor stewardship. In this role, he is responsible for several initiatives, including the FCA’s implementation of the TCFD’s recommendations and the FCA’s work with IOSCO on corporate reporting standards on sustainability. Prior to joining the FCA in 2018, Mark spent fifteen years as a central banker with the Bank of England (BoE) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). He held a number of senior roles, with a particular focus on policy, research and supervision in the field of financial market infrastructures (FMIs). Before joining the official sector, Mark spent several years as a fixed income and currency fund manager with Kleinwort Benson Investment Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Mark holds Master’s degrees in Economics and Finance, from University College London and London Business School, respectively.

Jeremy Arnold
Chief risk officer
NatWest Markets
Jeremy Arnold joined NatWest Markets as chief risk officer in September 2018 and is responsible for leading the organisation's risk function by defining and delivering risk, conduct, compliance and financial crime strategies to support its ambition, strategy and risk appetite. He has extensive experience, spanning a variety of roles in trading and risk management over the past 30 years at a number of leading global financial institutions.

Nitesh Patel
Group operational risk director
Lloyds Banking Group
Nitesh is the group operational risk director at Lloyds Banking Group. Nitesh joined LBG in 2022 from Credit Suisse where he had an extensive audit career most recently as chief auditor for technology, operations, change and third party risks. Nitesh has over 20 years of operational risk experience, including control design, risk culture and use of emerging technology.
On a personal level, he has a love of travel, football and also spends some of his time helping local charities.
Nasreen Kasenally
Chief risk officer, asset management and sustainability, Emea
UBS
Nasreen Kasenally is the global chief risk officer and head of sustainability risk at UBS Asset Management. She is a senior risk professional with over 20 years of experience mostly at UBS covering investment banking, asset and wealth management. In her role as chief risk officer, Kasenally is responsible for all financial risks within UBS Asset Management globally and in all the business divisions of UBS Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Within sustainability, she has the oversight of the risks across the group and leads the engagement and positioning to deliver the firm’s purpose and values with regards to sustainability.

Nick Silitch
Former chief risk officer
Prudential

Himanshu Patel
Head of risk management group, Europe
Vanguard
Himanshu Patel leads the risk management group in Europe, providing risk oversight of the investment management group through the design and governance of investment and operational risk management strategies. Prior to joining Vanguard, he spent five years at EY as a senior manager in regulation and risk, providing asset management firms with practical advice on improving conduct and control. Patel has extensive experience in investment risk and performance analysis spanning 15 years at Northern Trust, BlackRock, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan.
Antonello Russo
Managing director
BlackRock
Antonello Russo is a director within BlackRock's risk and quantitative analysis group. He is responsible for the investment risk management of index strategies across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, spanning segregated mandates, commingled funds and the iShares exchange-traded fund range. Before joining BlackRock, Russo was head of risk for the investment management arm of Beazley, a Lloyds of London insurer. Prior to this, he worked for Deutsche Bank, where he was a director on the collateralised equity financing and prime brokerage sales desk, and before that a risk manager for fixed income. He holds an honour degree from Bocconi University in Milan, where he graduated in 1995 in monetary and financial economics.

Stefana Brown
Chief risk officer, UK protection and fintech, and director, IT and data protection risk
Legal & General Retail
Stefana Brown is chief risk officer, UK protection and fintech, and director, IT and data protection risk, at Legal & General Retail. She spent 10 years at Lloyds Banking Group and four at M&G Investments before joining Legal & General Retail.

Marcus Butt
Managing director prime services
NatWest Markets
Prior to taking responsibility for FX Prime Services, Marcus was responsible for sales across Prime Brokerage, Futures & OTC Clearing and for the OTC Clearing product in EMEA.
Before joining RBS, Marcus spend 17 years at UBS where he held a number of roles in Prime Services, Securities Lending and FX

Myriam Sifaoui
Global emerging chief operating officer and director
Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking
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Christian Bluhm, Group chief risk officer, UBS
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Albert Loo, Deputy head of sales for global markets, Societe Generale
Risk Live North America is one of the few events where banks and buy side come together to thrash out the issues shaping the future of finance
Andrés Choussy, Chief executive, Traiana

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2023 Partners
Numerix is the leading provider of innovative capital markets technology applications and real-time intelligence capabilities for trading and risk management. It drives an open fintech-oriented digital financial services market. Numerix is uniquely positioned in the financial services ecosystem to help its users reimagine operations, modernise business processes and capture profitability.
ActiveViam, a global software provider to the financial services industry, delivers a fit-for-purpose data analytics platform that accelerates confident decision-making. For nearly two decades, we have empowered financial services firms to be ready for the unexpected and eliminate blind spots when making decisions. Performing continuous calculation of risk and performance metrics on huge volumes of fast-moving data, our innovative data aggregation and analytics platform helps clients freely explore metrics at the most granular level, detect and diagnose outliers as they happen, and perform real-time impact analysis of ‘what-if’ scenarios. This results in better business outcomes such as optimized profits, a higher yield on investments, and reduced exposure to regulatory fines.
Riskonnect is the leading integrated risk management software solution provider. Our technology empowers organizations with the ability to anticipate, manage, and respond in real-time to strategic and operational risks across the extended enterprise.
Riskonnect’s integrated risk management platform consolidates data, connects risks, and illustrates their relationships. Powering our growing suite of risk management applications is our unique risk-correlation engine that helps our customers understand risk at a level they can’t get anywhere else. It’s no wonder that more organizations choose Riskonnect than any other vendor as their preferred risk management technology provider.
Riskonnect’s integrated risk management platform includes:
- Risk Management Information System
- Claims Administration
- Third-Party Risk Management
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Environmental, Social, Governance
- Internal Audit
- Compliance
- Policy Management
- Project Risk
- Business Continuity & Resilience
- Health & Safety
- Healthcare
To learn more, visit riskonnect.com.
About Archer
Archer is a leading provider of integrated risk management (IRM) solutions that enable customers to improve strategic decision-making and operational resilience with a modern technology platform that supports qualitative and quantitative analysis driven by both business and IT impacts. As true pioneers in GRC software, Archer remains solely dedicated to helping customers manage risk and compliance domains, from traditional operational risk to emerging issues such as ESG. With over 20 years in the risk management industry, the Archer customer base represents one of the largest pure risk management communities globally, with more than 1,600 deployments including more than 90 of the Fortune 100.
Clarity AI is a sustainability technology platform that uses machine learning and big data to deliver environmental and social insights to investors, organizations, and consumers. Clarity AI’s capabilities are an essential tool for end-to-end sustainability analysis related to investing, corporate research, benchmarking, consumer ecommerce, and regulatory reporting. As of January 2023, Clarity AI’s platform analyzes more than 70,000 companies, 360,000 funds, 198 countries, and 199 local governments, which represents the broadest data coverage in the market with up to 13 times more than other leading players. One way Clarity AI delivers on its mission to bring societal impact to markets is by ensuring its capabilities are delivered directly into clients' workflows through integrations with partners like BlackRock - Aladdin, Refinitiv an LSEG business, BNP Manaos, Allfunds, and Simcorp. Additionally, Clarity AI's sustainability insights reach more than 150 million consumers across more than 400,000 merchants on the Klarna platform. Clarity AI has offices in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, and its client network manages tens of trillions in assets for companies like Invesco, Nordea, PGIM, Santander, Wellington, and BNP Paribas. clarity.ai
Coherent transforms your business, starting with a single cell. By transforming spreadsheets into APIs, you can experience the rapid flexibility and scalability you need, elevate your governance and control, and enhance customer experience through your existing assets. You can have your spreadsheets and control them, too.
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.
smartTrade Technologies is a leading global provider of multi-asset electronic trading platforms, helping customers achieve business growth through its cost-efficient and technologically advanced secure private software-as-a-service end-to-end solution.
ServiceNow provides cloud-based platforms and solutions that help digitise and unify organisations so they can find smarter, faster and better ways of working, and employees and customers can be more connected, innovative and agile.
Beacon is the only vendor on the market that gives clients underlying source code, a developer platform, and infrastructure services so they can own the full technology stack. Beacon is transforming financial services with access to transparent code and cloud technology just as the iPhone created developer toolkits to transform what’s possible in a mobile device.
Beacon’s software has been designed to provide significant uplift in developer productivity and reduce time-to-value. While enterprise and financial institutions today debate on whether to buy or build, rip and replace technology, Beacon works alongside existing solutions, making it easy for our clients to enable corporate innovation.
As a leader in analytics, SAS has more than 40 years of experience helping organisations solve their toughest problems. Our unrelenting commitment to innovation enables the financial services to modernise and sustain a competitive edge. SAS provides an integrated, enterprise-wide risk-management platform for managing risk in an organisation, from strategic to reputational, operational, financial or compliance-related risk management. Learn more about how SAS is driving innovation and business value for risk and finance professionals at www.sas.com/risk.
For over 20 years, Protecht has redefined the way people think about risk management and resilience with the most complete, cutting-edge and cost-effective SaaS solutions. We help companies increase performance and achieve strategic objectives through better understanding, monitoring and management of risk and resilience.
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better and faster decisions. Its risk expertise, expansive information resources and innovative application of technology help its clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. Moody’s Analytics offers industry-leading and award-winning solutions, made up of research, data, software and professional services.
KWA Analytics is a consultancy with a focus on and experience in implementing trading, risk and treasury management solutions. It is experienced in implementations, upgrades and solution architecture across a range of organisations, and has established itself as a trusted implementation consulting services provider.
Quantifi is a provider of risk, analytics and trading solutions. Our award-winning suite of integrated pre- and post-trade solutions allow market participants to better value, trade and risk manage their exposures. Founded in 2002, Quantifi is trusted by the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions, including five of the six largest global banks, two of the three largest asset managers, leading hedge funds, insurance companies, pension funds and other institutions across 40 countries. By applying the latest technology innovations, Quantifi provides new levels of usability, flexibility, and integration. This translates into dramatically lower time to market, lower total cost of ownership and significant improvements in operational efficiency, allowing you to focus on your core business.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision-support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years' expertise in research, data and technology, MSCI powers better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyse key drivers of risk and return, and to confidently build more effective portfolios. MSCI creates industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
MetricStream is the global SaaS leader of Integrated Risk Management and GRC solutions that empower organizations to thrive on risk by accelerating growth via risk-aware decisions. We connect governance, risk management, and compliance across the extended enterprise. Our ConnectedGRC and three product lines – BusinessGRC, CyberGRC, and ESGRC – are based on a single, scalable platform that supports you wherever you are on your GRC journey. Recognized by top industry analysts as a leader in GRC, MetricStream has been helping customers thrive on risk for more than 20 years.
For details please visit: www.metricstream.com
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