2023 agenda

Adrian Docherty leads the Bank Advisory team, which provides key relationship bank clients with technical sector expertise and help on strategic financial issues relating to balance sheet management and efficiency.

In practice, this means advising on capital raising alternatives, risk management and transfer frameworks, regulatory developments (especially Basel III and IV), accounting changes (especially IFRS 9), funding/liquidity strategies, credit portfolio management, solvency creation/optimisation structures and innovative ways of financing growth. In recent years, the issue of “disruption and obsolescence” (ie. new banking business models) has increasingly featured; so now too do strategies around Brexit

Adrian has 25 years’ experience in advising financial institutions, initially as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. After nine years at Booz Allen, Adrian was hired by one of his clients, Barclays, to help run the rapidly growing investment banking business line. Adrian spent three years as COO of Investment Banking, before moving to run the balance sheet advisory team in Barclays Capital’s Financial Institutions Group.

Adrian has a Master’s from Cambridge University. His book "Better Banking: Understanding and Addressing the Failures in Risk Management, Governance and Regulation" was published by Wiley in 2014

In his current role as the Head of Credit Risk at Goldman Sachs Asset Management B.V. Wim van Nes leads the management of Credit Risk for all Alternative Credit strategies and holds the position of Voting Member on the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Wim served as the Team Lead Alternative Credit Risk at NN Investment Partners in the Netherlands, where he was also delegated as a Voting Member of the Investment Committee. He has also held significant roles such as Senior Credit Risk Manager at NN Investment Partners, Risk Advisor at Delta Lloyd Asset Management, and Manager of Distressed Assets at Delta Lloyd Asset Management. Wim's expertise extends to his earlier positions, including Derivatives, Valuation and Collateral Management Specialist at Delta Lloyd Asset Management from and his initial experience gained through a Finance Traineeship at Delta Lloyd. With a rich and diverse background, Wim van Nes brings a wealth of experience and strategic insight to the world of risk management.

Adrian Docherty leads the Bank Advisory team, which provides key relationship bank clients with technical sector expertise and help on strategic financial issues relating to balance sheet management and efficiency.

In practice, this means advising on capital raising alternatives, risk management and transfer frameworks, regulatory developments (especially Basel III and IV), accounting changes (especially IFRS 9), funding/liquidity strategies, credit portfolio management, solvency creation/optimisation structures and innovative ways of financing growth. In recent years, the issue of “disruption and obsolescence” (ie. new banking business models) has increasingly featured; so now too do strategies around Brexit

Adrian has 25 years’ experience in advising financial institutions, initially as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. After nine years at Booz Allen, Adrian was hired by one of his clients, Barclays, to help run the rapidly growing investment banking business line. Adrian spent three years as COO of Investment Banking, before moving to run the balance sheet advisory team in Barclays Capital’s Financial Institutions Group.

Adrian has a Master’s from Cambridge University. His book "Better Banking: Understanding and Addressing the Failures in Risk Management, Governance and Regulation" was published by Wiley in 2014

In 2016 William Cooper became the head of risk for SEB Denmark with responsibility for protecting the banks financial results and reputation by preventing excessive risk taking and promoting a strong risk management culture. He has a key role in driving and contributing to risk related projects including the banks FRTB program. 

Cooper has worked in the past for both buy and sell side firms, in roles ranging from trading at a large hedge fund to working as a quantitative analyst at a tier 1 investment bank, always with a focus on improving financial modelling and analytics to maximize risk management and market awareness. He holds a BSc in mathematics and economics from the LSE and a MSc in mathematics from the University of Copenhagen.

Roland is the sustainability risk manager for Mizuho in the EMEA region. He supports the Risk Management Department to improve and implement the ECB and EBA guidelines on sustainability risk and to conduct sustainability risk initiatives across the region. Roland recently joined Mizuho after working in Deloitte Netherlands' climate risk modeling team. With Deloitte, Roland supported banks in the Netherlands and across Europe with the implementation of regulations on sustainability risk including the integration in quantitative risk models. Roland has a background in sustainable innovation and quantitative finance.

 

Eric Schaanning is heading the Group Banking Book team covering Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book for the combined UBS & Credit Suisse Group. Prior to joining UBS / Credit Suisse, Eric held various positions at the European Central Bank and Norges Bank, covering Stress Testing, Macroprudential Policy, Cyber Risk and Central Clearing among others. Eric holds a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College London and an MSc in Mathematics from ETH Zürich.

Samuel Wilkes is the deputy editor of Risk.net’s regulation desk, based in London. Sam graduated from the University of Hull with a bachelor’s degree in history.

Jasper is director of G7 portfolio management within the EBRD Treasury. He oversees the central risk warehouse for all hard currency risks across the Bank’s balance sheet, and is also heavily involved with IBOR transition across various RFR working groups. 

Livingsmith joined the EBRD in 2011. Previously he worked as a macro trader, and was a market maker at ABN AMRO.

Leif is Global Head of Liquidity Management & Money Markets (Group Treasury), Divisional Treasurer Wholesale Banking for ING.

 His remit includes:

• Management of short term funding access, cash and collateral positions
• Effectively securing and steering of all contingent liquidity risk metrics such as the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR)
• Ensuring sufficient funding at all times in all currencies and ING locations to safeguard and facilitate the various business activities of ING worldwide
• Act as a trusted advisor and point of contact to senior management of the Wholesale Banking division

Leif has over 20 yrs of Banking industry experience and before he joined ING worked for DekaBank (Germany, Frankfurt).

Neil McLeod has over 20 years’ experience within the financial markets industry, across multiple asset classes, including Credit Trading, Money Markets, Interest Rate Trading and XVA. He is currently head of Group Treasury Markets within Erste Group Bank AG, one of the major financial groups specialising in the CEE region. Neil is a former member of the ECB Money Market Contact Group and an active member of the EUR Risk Free Rate Working Group.

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, Simmons transitioned to MUFG Securities to become involved in the Brexit project. In this capacity he is the chief risk officer for MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. the Dutch subsidiary of MUFG Securities (EMEA).

Prior to joining the bank, Simmons 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 having 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.

Wouter is the Chief Risk Officer of Optiver Amsterdam and has been a member of the local management team since April 2022. He also serves as a member of the EMIR Eurex Risk Committee. Wouter joined Optiver in 2013 and prior to his current role led the Trading Risk Management team at Optiver Amsterdam. He is a graduate of the University of Antwerp and holds an M.Sc. in Business Engineering.

Corinna Schempp is developing and implementing the organization’s political and regulatory engagement strategy with elected officials, regulatory agencies and other key policymakers, in each case in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland, in close coordination with the FIA policy staff and the Head of Europe.

Leading the Brussels office, she is also involved in evaluating pending legislation; surveys legislations’ impact on the organization; develops the organization’s response to legislation.

She joined the organisation in September 2014 from LCH.Clearnet Limited where she was a Senior Regulatory Advisor in the Compliance & Regulation team. Previously, her responsibilities covered regulatory compliance in relation to LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear business, including liaison with the Bank of England, CFTC, Ontario Securities Commission, AMF Quebec, BaFin and other international regulators. During her time at the clearing house, she also worked closely with the legal team to provide support on European and US regulatory issues, including the implementation of Dodd-Frank and associated CFTC regulations across LCH.Clearnet impacted business units.

Prior to joining LCH.Clearnet in May 2011, Corinna, a dual qualified lawyer, was Legal and Regulation Manager at London Stock Exchange’s equity derivatives business, formerly known as EDX London.

Corinna also holds a post-graduate diploma in European Union law from Kings College, London, as well as law degrees from Germany.

Samuel Wilkes is the deputy editor of Risk.net’s regulation desk, based in London. Sam graduated from the University of Hull with a bachelor’s degree in history.

Max Verheijen has held several positions at Cardano, most recently as Director advising clients on the implementation of risk management solutions. From 2010 to 2020 as Managing Director and member of the management team, Max was responsible for the Financial Markets division including trading. He has thorough knowledge of risk management, financial markets instruments and regulations, treasury, finance, hedging market- and counterparty risk. Max started his career at ING Bank most notably as Vice President at the Interest Rate Derivatives Department. In 2000 he joined IMC Financial Products as a Senior buy-side trader, and then finally to Cardano in the role of Head of Trading as part of a merger between Cardano and IMC Financial Products.

Max has a M.Sc. in Economics from Tilburg University, and is registered Treasurer following the completion of the postgraduate program on Treasury Management and Corporate Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

David van Bragt, PhD, is a consultant investment solutions in the fixed income, LDI and investment solutions team of Aegon AM. David is mainly active in the fields of asset & liability modelling (ALM), liability-driven investment (LDI) and risk management for institutional investors. He also monitors regulatory developments for Aegon AM and is involved in product development. Prior to joining the firm, he was an ALM consultant for insurance companies at Ortec Finance. David has been in the industry since 2004 and joined the firm in 2011. He holds a PhD (cum laude) in applied physics from Delft University of Technology, an MSc in applied physics from Eindhoven University of Technology and an MA in philosophy from University of Amsterdam. He is a Certified Financial Analyst EFFAS, Dutch RBA (CFA Society VBA Netherlands).

Joris Krijger is a Tech Ethicist working as Ethics & AI Officer at the Dutch bank de Volksbank while also holding a PhD position on the topic of Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He presently works on bridging the gap between ethical principles and AI by studying the operationalization of ethics in data science contexts. Additionally, he holds positions as a.o. Founding Editorial Board Member of Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics Journal. For his contributions to the field of responsible AI he received a.o. a Graduate School Award for PhD Excellence.