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Up To 14 CPE Credits Available at Risk Americas 2025

8:00 Registration and breakfast | 8:50 Chair’s opening remarks

GEOPOLITICAL RISK

9:00 Chief Economist Overview of the Current Macroeconomic Landscape

  • Preparing for increased uncertainty and changes to the economy
  • Assessing the macroeconomic situation and potential scenarios
  • US economic climate, trade and the futureImpact of geopolitical instability on global markets and investment strategies
  • Reviewing future of regulation and policy

Tendayi Kapfidze,Chief Economist,Wells Fargo.

GLOBAL ECONOMY – PANEL DISCUSSION

9:20 Exploring interconnected dynamics to shape international markets

  • Assessing macroeconomic vulnerabilities and recession risk factors
  • Reviewing geopolitical impact to GDP and unemployment
  • Reviewing implications of expanding deficits for economic stability and growth
  • Potential changes in US foreign policy and global economic implications

Carl Groth,Chief Risk Officer,Legal & General Retirement Americas

Sabeena Ahmed Liconte,Head of Legal & Chief Compliance Officer,ICBC Standard Bank Group

Tendayi Kapfidze,Chief Economist,Wells Fargo.

FIRESIDE CHAT

10:05 Addressing the critical and risks faced by CROs – views from a growing bank and evolving industry

Session details coming soon.

Ty Lambert,Chief Risk Officer,Cadence Bank

Andreas Simou,Managing Director,CeFPro

Craft Your Own Agenda at Risk Americas 2025
Move Freely Between the 4 Streams

Emerging Tech and Regulation

Day 1 Moderator: Candice Nonas, Managing Director, Global Head of Risk and Regulatory Practice, North Highland

Enterprise and Operational Risk

Day 1 Moderator: Mehdi Esmail,Cofounder & Chief Product Officer,ValidMind

Volatility and Macroeconomic Environment

Theresa Meawad,Senior Director & Head of Solutions Consulting,SS&C EVOLV

Treasury and Balance Sheet Management

Day 1 Moderator: Patricia Pajuelo Gaviro, Partner, GMS Management Solutions USA Inc

11:00-11:45

BASEL III – PANEL DISCUSSION
 Reviewing the future of Basel III rules and jurisdictional disparities

  • Implications of lower capital ratios
  • Understanding timelines for Basel III with new administration
  • Assessing the global convergence and implementation challenges
  • Analyzing key changes in the latest implementation proposals

Srijan Agrawal,Director, Financial Resource Management,RBC Capital Markets

Simon Rasin,Director, Senior Managing Counsel, Head of  Legal for Corporate Treasury, Risk and Stress Testing,BNY

11:00-11:45

ENTERPRISE RISK – PANEL DISCUSSION
Enhancing ERM for a holistic view of risk the risk profile across all business units

  • Rethinking risk ID and appetite in the current landscape
  • Creating incident response protocols and issue management systems
  • Defining and aligning risk appetite across all risk drivers in the organization
  • Monitoring KRIs at the enterprise level for comprehensive oversight

Mohamed Bamba,Senior Vice President- Head of Business Risk and Control,Bank United

Vaughn Alliton,Senior Managing Director, Head of Technology/Digital Risk Compliance,TIAA

Javier Ortiz,Principal Technical Leader -Treasury & Risk,IADB

Cyril Shmatov,Managing Director, Head of Enterprise Stress Testing,Citibank

11:00-11:45

MACROECONOMIC LANDSCAPE – PANEL DISCUSSION-
 Navigating a volatile environment while anticipating future trends in the landscape

  • Understanding the direction of the macroeconomic landscape
  • Managing high rates and inflation
  • Understanding regional variations in economic volatility
  • Adapting risk frameworks for an uncertain world

Jeff Prelle,Chief Risk Officer,First Tech Federal Credit Union

Bianca Wallace,US Chief Risk Officer,Norinchukin Bank

Markus Lammer,Head of Legacy CS Corporate Bank,UBS

Justin Van Beek,SVP,Wintrust Financial Corporation

Jake Katz, Head of Analytics Research, LSEG Data and Analytics

11:00-11:45

MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICY – PANEL DISCUSSION
 Exploring the roles monetary and fiscal policy play in shaping economic stability

  • Assessing impact of government stimulus
  • Balancing economic growth and inflationary pressures
  • Reviewing US credit rating concerns and treasury market impacts
  • Impact of policy uncertainties on long-term interest rates

Shawn Snyder,Former,Executive Director, Global Investment Strategist,J.P Morgan Global Wealth Management

Oskar Rogg,Managing Director, Head of Treasury,Credit Agricole CIB

11:45-12:20

REGULATION POST-SVB
Reviewing the evolution of regulations set post-SVB and impact to banks

  • Reviewing impact to smaller banks Vs micro banks
  • Evolution of reporting practices
  • Assessing new risks emerging as a result of change across the industry

Shahab Khan,Head of Liquidity Risk,HSBC USA

11:45-12:20

INTEGRATION
 Achieving a comprehensive view of risk for clearer insights and more informed decision-making

  • Unifying data streams for holisticunderstanding of financial and non-financial risks
  • Establishing a risk aware culture across teams
  • Tailoring NFR frameworks for diverse risk categories
  • Designing a data strategy to enable harmonized reporting across the organization

Matthew Moore,Director, Operational Risk Management,Barclays

11:45-12:20

MACROECONOMICS & GEOPOLITICAL CHALLENGES
Preparing for increased macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty and changes to regulation under the new administration

  • Managing likely tensions under new administration and expansion of risks
  • Assessing the macroeconomic situation and potential scenarios
  • US economic climate, trade and the future
  • Impact of geopolitical instability on global markets and investment strategies
  • Reviewing future of regulation and policy

Shahed Shafi,Head of Counterparty Risk/Market Products,U.S Bank

3:55-4:40

LIABILITY MATCHING
Remaining agile and reassessing liability matching to adapt to changing markets

  • Matching asset and liability with increased regulatory changes
  • Finding quality longer duration assets
  • Having diversified assets between short and longer duration assets
  • Balancing assets and liabilities across currencies

Mitchell Chad,Managing Director, Head of Balance Sheet Modeling,Royal Bank of Canada

Jonathan Liu,Director, Balance Sheet Management and Strategic Initiatives,Royal Bank of Canada

12:20-12:55

REGULATORY REPORTING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Navigating Regulatory Reporting Challenges in Banking

  • Exploring compliance, transparency, and efficiency in financial reporting amidst evolving regulations

  • Understanding the impact of frequent regulatory changes on financial reporting and compliance requirements

  • Addressing fragmented reporting systems and data silos to improve accuracy and efficiency

  • Strengthening data governance and implementing robust quality assurance programs for regulatory submissions

  • Enhancing collaboration between finance, risk, and compliance teams to ensure transparency in reporting processes

  • Managing operational costs and mitigating risks associated with outdated reporting practices

  • Leveraging technology and automation to streamline reporting and adapt to future regulatory demands

Moderated by: Bianca Mugnano, Senior Solution Consultant, Workiva

Ed Kennedy,Financial Services Solution Owner,Workiva

Simon Rasin,Director, Senior Managing Counsel, Head of  Legal for Corporate Treasury, Risk and Stress Testing,BNY

Oskar Rogg,Managing Director, Head of Treasury,Credit Agricole

12:20-12:55

ESG + Luncheon Address
Managing ESG risks in a divided world

  • Assessing the declining popularity of ESG amongst financial institutions
  • Maximizing returns through ESG strategies
  • Navigating divergent approaches globally
  • Reviewing the differing opinions of ESG across states

Luncheon Address Led By Weave.AI

Discover Weave.AI with Agentic GenAI Decision Management

  • Enterprise-Wide AI risk intelligence – Continuous AI-driven assessment uncovers financial, ESG, cyber, climate, geopolitical, and market risks in real time, aligning with global frameworks.
  • From benchmarking to risk mitigation – AI-powered gap analysis and tailored remediation strategies enhance compliance, resilience, and ROI with proactive next-best actions.

Marina Severinovsky,Head of Sustainability,Schroders

Sasha Tuel,Head of Customer Success,Weave.AI

12:20-12:55

INTEREST RATE RISK
 Gaining clarity on the anticipated trajectory of interest rates and repositioning portfolios

  • Reviewing the implications on asset classes
  • Managing impact on loan & deposit pricing
  • Maintaining profitability amid rate fluctuations
  • Understanding the implications of increased treasury issuance on interest rates and market stability

Maxwell Zhu,Global Head of Quantitative Analysis and Strategy,BMO

12:20-12:55

BALANCE SHEET MANAGEMENT
Strategic balance sheet management: Trends and innovative approaches

  • Wholistic financial management:The movement toward a “single source of truth” to ensure stability, profitability, regulatory compliance, and long-term growth
  • Enhancing profitability monitoring:Exploring modern techniques to track and optimize financial performance
  • Strengthening liquidity risk resilience:Leveraging ILST for informed decision-making and strategic planning
  • Stochastic income analysis in modeling:Implementing a stochastic framework to improve forecasting accuracy and decision-making

Will Newcomer,Director, Finance & Risk,Empyrean Solutions

P.J. Cole,Managing Director,Empyrean Solutions

12:55-1:55

Lunch break and networking

LUNCHEON ROUNDTABLE
Evolving cyber threats in finance: Taking dynamic approach to mitigation resilience

Nick Nathmann,CISO,LogicGate

1:55-2:30

CRYPTOCURRENCY REGULATIONS

  • Session details coming soon…

Moderated by: Megan O’Flynn, Special Counsel,WilmerHale

Ash Majid, Chief Risk Officer,FalconX

1:55-2:30

DATA GOVERNANCE
Deploying tactics for future-ready risk management

  • The role of data governance in managing risk

  • How to utilize data governance to drive business value

  • How data governance enables successful AI solutions

  • Business outcomes should guide, not follow, data governance strategies

  • Practical steps CROs can take to use data governance tools for risk reduction

Bryce Snape,Senior Managing Director,FTI Consulting

Max Cantin,Senior Director,FTI Consulting

1:55-2:30

DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING CHALLENGER MODELS
Model design and theoretical soundness in model risk management
building challenger models – an ultimate goal
Presenting 4 case studies

  • Credit Risk – CECL, Transition Matrix Models, Static vs. Dynamic

  • Liquidity Risk – Deposit Decay, Static vs. Dynamic

  • Traditional AI – AML False Positive Reduction, Global Optimization vs. Local Optimization

  • Large Language Model – AML False Positive Reduction, BERT vs. Flan-T5

  • Implementing challenger models

Kai-Ching Lin,Head of Model/Market Risk,Valley National Bank

1:55-2:30

INFLATION
Reviewing current impacts and strategies to navigate the challenges posed by rising prices

  • Impact of accumulated debt on economic growth
  • Reviewing strategies for borrowing in a low-growth environment
  • Managing longer term high inflation

Deniz Tudor,former Head of Modeling,Bread Financial

2:30-3:05

AUTOMATING MODEL RISK
Leveraging technology  to automate and strengthen the model risk ecosystem

  • Offering strategic insights into scaling MRM processes through advanced automation, especially in theGenAl era
  • Industrializing model validation and testing for greater speed, efficiency, effectiveness, and stronger compliance guardrails
  • Demonstrating how our MRM ecosystem — NIMBUS Uno,MoDeVa, and MRM Vault is transforming model development, validation, testing, and governance

Vikas Tyagi,Founder and CEO,Solytics Partners

Alberto Ramirez,Partner – Risk Analytics,Solytics Partners

2:30-3:05

THIRD PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT
TPRM in the US regulatory environment

  • Overview of the US regulatory landscape with a focus on interagency TPRM guidelines, business continuity and operational resilience
  • Challenges and opportunities posed by emerging technologies and how they fit into TPRM programs
  • Regulatory perspective on best practices for US financial institutions

Philip Gledhill,Supervising Examiner, Operational Risk & Resilience,Federal Reserve Bank of New York

2:30-3:05

CREDIT RISK
Importance of portfolio management in a volatile credit or economic environment

Session details TBC

Ann-Margaret Sumnar,Credit Review Director,Huntington National Bank

2:30-3:05

LIQUIDITY – FIRESIDE CHAT
Managing cash flows and funding sources to keep high liquidity

  • Reviewing the impact of interest rates on liquidity
  • Managing operational deposits for LCR and stress testing calculation
  • Matching liabilities on the balance sheet to optimize liquidity management
  • Developing a proactive risk appetite approach post-liquidity crises

Alfred Chuang,Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer,Kensington Capital Partners

Ronald Ratcliffe,Managing Director, Head Strategist – Portfolio Analytics, BlackRock

3:05-3:50

GEN AI – PANEL DISCUSSION
Adopting gen AI internally and assessing use cases for maximum RoI

  • Understanding regulatory expectations in relation to gen AI
  • Defining AI use cases and governance expectations
  • Navigating the pressure to adopt AI despite potential risks
  • Reviewing the long-term vs short-term value of gen AI investments
  • Identifying potential control gaps across the organization

Melody Feinberg,Former Chief Risk Officer,Federal Home Loan Bank of New York

Katherine Zhang,Sr Risk Specialist,Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Michael Knoeller,Senior Vice President, Director of Compliance,CIBM Bank

3:05-3:50

THIRD PARTY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Ensuring effective oversight and compliance of all third parties

  • Setting controls over third party technology vendors
  • Integrating third parties into institutional risk exercises to mitigate regulatory exposure
  • Monitoring data storage and sharing across supply chains
  • Negotiating enhanced data security and safeguarding transparency

Megan Speranza,Executive Director, Global Head of CCOR Resilience Risk Oversight,J.P Morgan

Olga Voytenko, Head of Operational Risk and Chief Auditor, Russell Investments

Adam Ennamli,Chief Risk, Compliance and Security Officer,General Bank of Canada

3:05-3:50

DEFAULTS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Developing a proactive approach to early identification practices to reduce defaults

  • Utilizing data analytics to detect potential defaults before they occur
  • Diversifying loan portfolios to spread risk and reduce exposure to defaults
  • Assessing the impact of interest rate fluctuations on borrower repayments

Seyhun Hepdogan,SVP, Director of Analytics,Fifth Third Bancorp

Liz Gorgoglione,Director, Credit Risk,Legal & General Retirement Americas

Liming Brotcke,Sr Director, CCB BL Risk, Ally

Michael Roenning,Head of Solution Architecutre, ValidMind

3:05-3:50

LIQUIDITY STRESS TESTING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Liquidity stress testing: Evaluating resilience and preparedness with continued financial disruption

  • Running liquidity stress tests to prepare for deposit run off
  • Conducting liquidity stress testing for different macroeconomic stresses
  • Combing liquidity risk with capital planning
  • Bridging current liquidity needs with potential stressed liquidity needs
  • Monitoring risks caused by 2023 liquidity banking crises

Mitchell Chad,Senior (Managing) Director Stress and Impairment – Modeling and Analytics,RBC

Alison Li,Executive Audit Director, First Citizens Bank

Amit Kalyanaraman, Managing Director, Chief of Staff, UBS Americas Holding LLC

Anindya Basu,Global Head of Rapid Stress Testing,Citi

3:50-4:20

Afternoon refreshment break and networking

4:20-4:55

IMPLMENTING AND VALIDATING GEN AI
Implementing and Validating GenAI: Practical strategies and lessons learned

  • Enabling GenAI in customer-facing applications

  • Effectively defining, implementing and validating a use case

  • Best practices for validation and monitoring

  • Validating Gen AI – Common challenges faced and effective solution

Kristof Horompoly,VP – AI Risk Management,ValidMind

4:20-4:55

CYBERSECURITY
Take a dynamic approach to centralized risk management

  • Adopt a data-driven strategy to confidently shift assets and reallocate funds without putting your AUM at risk.

  • Better understand third-party data dependency by clarifying and categorizing what data vendors can access and their level of accessibility into environments to ensure your team is prepared to rapidly respond if an incident occurs.

  • Declutter and replace siloed, point solutions with modern centralized risk management solutions.

Nick Kathmann,CISO,LogicGate

4:20-4:55

MANAGING EVENT RISK
Strategies to limit market and counterparty exposurers

  • Developing stress test scenarios to evaluate event risk vulnerabilities
  • Techniques to monitor and control portfolio-wide risk concentrations
  • Addressing risks from concentrated positions and using proxies for effective hedging
  • Utilizing derivatives and structured products to protect against extreme market downturns

Sandeep Jain,Director & Market Risk Executive,Bank of America – tbc

3:55-4:40

CFP – PANEL DISCUSSION
Developing a robust contingency funding plan to ensure preparedness and effective response

  • Responding to market actions at short notice
  • Taking relevant actions once ERI’s are triggered
  • Having assessments and reports available to respond
  • Running relevant scenarios to capture stress within CFP plan
  • Testing current CFP plans to evaluate efficiency

Charles Richard, Co-Founder,QRM

Henry Kwan,SVP & Deputy Treasurer,East West Bank

4:55-5:30

Validating Gen AI
Rethinking AI and gen AI model validation to manage risks of continuous advances

  • Implementing AI governance processes to ensure proper validation
  • Putting correct data into gen AI models for accurate training
  • Mitigating challenges in validating a gen AI models compared to traditional models
  • Balancing the demand for AI models with the need for robust validation processes

Chandrakant Maheshwari,First Vice President, Model Validation Lead,Flagstar Bank

4:55-5:30

AI POLICY TO MANAGEMENT PRACTICE: LESSONS FROM THE FRONTLINES
Doing more with less: How to anticipate challenges, optimize resources, and leverage technology for effective implementation of AI governance.

  • Navigating the evolving model risk management regulatory landscape for AI systems.
  • Building AI Readiness: Practical frameworks that foster safe experimentation through effective governance.
  • Implementing clear distinctions between Models, Non-Models, and Tools within your governance structure.
  • Effective strategies for detecting and managing Shadow AI risks from vendors (Third Party Risks) and internal teams
  • Designing robust, practical policies that enable responsible GenAI deployment across the enterprise.

Anant Agarwal, AI Product Manager, CIMCON

4:55-5:30

CRE
Navigating CRE Risks in a Changing Market Environment

  • Identify vulnerable CRE exposures
  • Discuss strategies for optimizing CRE portfolios
  • Analyze the Effects of Delinquencies & Defaults on the CRE Sector
  • Examine CRE market challenges

Bernardo Mandri,Executive Director, Head of Credit Risk Review,ICBC

4:55-5:30

IRRBB
Monitoring IRRBB and adapting to a changing rate environment

  • Impact of federal reserve rate cuts on bank portfolios and risk management
  • Best practices in validating IRRBB models
  • Deposit modeling and behavioural assumptions
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis for interest rate risk

Mitchell Button,SVP, Director of Financial Model Validation,U.S Bank

Brian Estervig,VP Quantitative Model Validation Manager,U.S Bank

5:30-6:05

AI MODELS
Defining AI models and setting appropriate controls

  • Understand relevant risks and controls around AI models
  • Developing in-house AI solutions for specific needs
  • Integrating AI tools into existing risk infrastructure
  • Is AI defined as a tool or a model?

Chris SmigielskiModel Risk Director,Arvest Bank

5:30-6:05

REPUTATIONAL RISK
Having the correct procedures in place to avoid reputational damage

  • Gaining appreciation from customers to decrease negative impacts by organizational risks
  • Establishing a proactive communication strategy
  • Implementing a robust incident response plan
  • Monitoring social media and online presence

Jennifer Marshall-Roberston,Chief Risk Officer/Executive Manage, RiskGrenada Co-Operative Bank Limited

5:30-6:05

CLIMATE INSURANCE
Managing impact of insurance withdrawal in high risk climate areas

  • Reviewing market disruptions in climate-vulnerable areas
  • Impact on real estate values
  • Adapting insurance models to changing climate patterns
  • Developing new approaches to insure high-risk areas
  • Reviewing impact during recent California wildfires

Cino Robin Castelli, Partner and Head of Transition Finance,Orange Ridge Capital

5:30-6:05

CAPITAL STRESS TESTING
Examining the impact of adverse scenarios on capital position

  • Expanding capital stress testing beyond credit risk
  • Developing comprehensive scenarios to reflect diverse triggers
  • Monetizing all risks
  • Challenge with non-financial risks
  • Implementing SR12-7

Sergey Yeremenko,Internal Audit Director, Capital Markets and Model Risk,PNC

6:05

Chair’s closing remarks & networking drinks reception

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8:00 Registration and breakfast | 8:45 Chair’s opening remarks

DAY 2 KEYNOTE MODERATOR:

 Mark Sexton,Senior Managing Director,FTI Consulting

 KEYNOTE SESSIONS:

THE BOARD – PANEL DISCUSSION

8:50 Enhancing board effectiveness in navigating risks and driving organizational success

  • Appropriately skilling and staffing the board according to risks of the organization
  • Informing the board to make better conclusions and decisions
  • Implementing strategies for management to report on and empower board success
  • Quantifying risks to highlight key areas of focus to the board
  • Getting the boards to think like a CRO: Thinking of risks outside of silos

Bianca Wallace,US Chief Risk Officer,Norinchukin Bank

Oliver Jakob,Chief Risk Officer,Talcott Financial Group

Ron Cathcart,Vice Chair, US Board Risk Committe,Natixis US Holding

TITANS OF RISK – FIRESIDE CHAT

9:20 Exploring current and future risks through the lens of history and experience

  • An interactive and insightful session with two of the industry’s most recognizable risk professionals sharing experiences and examples – highlighting how lessons from the past can impact the future, and what may be coming over the horizon.
    • How to negotiate volatility
    • Efficacy of the US Dollar
    • Leverage in the modern financial system
    • Private credit and levered loans

Craig W. Broderick,former Chief Risk Officer,Goldman Sachs

Nicholas Silitch,former CRO,Prudential

9:50 Applying integrated balance sheet management techniques to thrive in turbulent times

  • Full Session Details Coming Soon

Panel Moderator: Charles Richard,Co-Founder, QRM

Michael Soccio,Executive Vice President, Treasury, Citizens Bank

Jie Hau, MD & GM; Head of Corporate Treasury Department, Americas Division & CUSO Treasurer/Co-Treasurer, SMBC

 Jeffery Palmer, Partner, PwC

10:20 From combating crime to managing risks – lessons learnt from both sides

  • How investigative skills translate to managing financial risk
  • Trends from organized fraud to cyber threats
  • Lessons from FBI & DA’s office on building a risk-aware institution
  • Handling risk under pressure – whether in the courtroom, a
    high-stakes FBI case, or a financial institution
  • Balancing regulation, enforcement, and business strategy.:
    How technology is changing risk and fraud detection

Ali Moghaddam,EVP – Chief Risk & Legal Officer,City National Bank Florida,former FBI agent ,Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) & former ADA

Craft Your Own Agenda at Risk Americas 2025
Move Freely Between the 4 Streams

 Morning refreshment break and networking

Emerging Tech and Regulation

Day 2 Moderator: Ed Kennedy, Financial Services Solution Owner, Workiva

Enterprise and Operational Risk

Day 2 Moderator: Chris SmigielskiModel Risk Director,Arvest Bank

Volatility and Macroeconomic Environment

Day 2 Moderator:Cino Robin Castelli, Partner and Head of Business Oversight, Orange Ridge Capital

Treasury and Balance Sheet Management

Day 2 Moderator:Candice Nonas, Managing Director, Global Head of Risk and Regulatory Practice, North Highland

11:20-11:55

CLIMATE RISK
Navigating the future of climate regulations and potential policy shifts

  • Reviewing the race to net zero and the impact on investment portfolios
  • Managing transition risks
  • Developing organizational strategies to define and manage climate change
  • Evaluating the impact of climate risks on diverse portfolio holdings

Derek Jun,Managing Director, Head of Climate Risk, Oversight,TIAA &Nuveen

Linda Kleftodimou Smith,Chair of the Investment Management Subcommittee (Corporate Sustainability Law Committee) of the American Bar Association,American Bar Association

11:20-11:55

RISK APPETITE
Setting risk appetite to align strategy with risk managements

  • Defining risk appetite and its importance in strategic decision-making
  • Developing a comprehensive risk appetite framework
  • Creating effective risk appetite statements
  • Establishing key risk indicators and tolerance levels
  • Aligning risk appetite with organizational objectives and strategy

Michael Steinhoefel, Director Operational Risk, Barclays

Prashant George, Director, Operational Risk, Barclays

11:20-11:55

GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN
Mitigating impact of supply chain disruptions on financial markets

  • Understanding the growing exposure of financial portfolios to supply chain disruptions
  • Shifting political alliances and their effect on international trade dynamics
  • Implementing portfolio-level risk mitigation strategies using scenario planning
  • Corporate adaptation through operational flexibility to reduce disruption impact
Grigory Lunyakov, Americas Head of MRM for GEM, GFX, and CVA, Deutsche Bank

11:20-11:55

PORTFOLIO RISK
Analyzing potential vulnerabilities and developing strategies to enhance resilience of investment portfolios

  • Managing risks from portfolios built on ETFs and mutual funds
  • Balancing risk and return across asset classes
  • Segregating risks across different type of products
  • Quantifying and managing geopolitical risk with explicit classes

Yakov Shenkman, Director Head of Risk for Fundamental Equity in Americas,BlackRock

11:55-12:30

CLIMATE RISK
Optimizing risk management, lending, and portfolio resilience through data-driven insights:

  • Integrate climate data into existing risk models for better decision-making
  • Conduct scenario analysis to assess the impact of extreme weather and regulatory shifts
  • Evaluate asset resilience to physical and transition climate risks
  • Leverage data to future-proof financial assets against climate generated business disruptions

Michelle Lu,Banking Commerical Lead,Climate X

11:55-12:30

Operationalizing GEN AI
Operationalizing gen AI and adopting risk frameworks for new applications

  • Balancing innovation with risk control in the deployment of AI technologies
  • Addressing risks across the AI model lifecycle to ensure comprehensive oversight
  • Identifying and mitigating risks in banking operations using AI
  • Ensuring regulatory compliance while adopting AI technologies

Eswari Sure,Vice President of Product Strategy and Marketing, averQ

Renuka Shankar,CEO, Founder, averQ

11:55-12:30

PRIVATE CREDIT IN A VOLATILE ENVIRONMENT
Reviewing the evolution of private credit, insurance asset management in an uncertain investment landscape

  • Macro uncertainty & market volatility

  • Public and private credit market yields/spreads

  • Opportunities and challenges in investment grade private credit including asset back finance / residual MBS

  • Risk management priorities including ALM and credit considerations

Fabrice Fiol, Head of Risk Management BOIS – Managing Director, Blue Owl

11:55-12:30

DEPOSITS MODELING
Improving deposit stickiness and mitigating large deposit run off

  • Testing deposit assumptions and building models
  • Impact of Federal Reserve and ECB decisions on savings rates and consumer behavior
  • Balancing cost of funds with net interest margin
  • Reviewing charges applied to consumers borrowing credit

George Soulellis, Enterprise Model Risk Officer,Freddie Mac

12:30-1:30

Lunch break and networking

1:30-2:15

FINTECH – PANEL DISCUSSION
Navigating regulatory complexities in fintech-bank partnerships

  • Lack of guidance with lending and payments from regulators
  • Reviewing evolved partnership with transparency and explainability
  • Reviewing the risks and failures associated with acquiring fintech startups
  • Consumerization taken into account when deciding on fintech solutions
    • Promoting transparency for enhanced CX/UX

Alisa Rusanoff,former, Head of Credit,Crescendo Asset Management

Sal Rehmetullah,Co-Founder and CEO,Worth

Brandi Coates,Chief Strategist, The Leading Term

1:30-2:15

DEEPFAKES – PANEL DISCUSSION
Managing deepfakes to prevent fraudsters from penetrating the bank or targeting customers

  • Identifying when a deepfake is impacting the institution or customer
  • Defining controls to identify potential deepfakes
  • Deflecting the deepfake impact on fraud
  • Collaborating with cyber security experts to enhance defenses against attacks

Dalit Stern,Managing Director, Enterprise Senior Fraud Risk Officer,TIAA

Phil Masquelette,Chief Risk Officer,Ulster Savings Bank

James Short,MD, Head of FCRM & Enterprise Head of Sanctions and Screening,Scotiabank (tbc)

1:30-2:15

PRIVATE CREDIT – PANEL DISCUSSION
Risk management and regulatory considerations in private credit

  • Reviewing and measuring risks in private credit
  • Assessing regulatory disparities between banks and private funds
  • Reviewing banks’ indirect exposure to leveraged loans through fund financing
  • Potential systemic risks from unregulated financial activities

Ann-Margaret Sumnar,Credit Review Director,Huntington National Bank

Michael Gatenby, former U.S. Chief Risk Officer, Former Scotiabank

Hakan Danis,Head of Macro Scenario Design,Citi

1:30-2:15

AI USE IN PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Leveraging AI to enhance decision making and optimize investment performance

  • Leveraging AI to look at portfolio deposit modeling
  • Enhancing process robustness through AI
  • Leveraging AI to annually review how to fund and manage the balance sheet
  • Running a projection of loss in the portfolio

Petr Chovanec,ExecutiveDirector,UBS

Armel Romeo KouassiSVP, Global Head of Asset Liability Management,Northern Trust Corporation

2:15-2:50

DATA and MODELING
Measuring and Quantifying Non-Financial Risk: Beyond Traditional Models

  • Limitations of existing frameworks in an evolving risk landscape
  • Approaches to NFR Measurement and Quantification
  • A look ahead at future developments & capabilities

Yasin Benzawi,Global Head of Scenario Analysis & Head of US Stress Testing, Capital, and Frameworks,Barclays

Anthony Muhammad, Director, Deputy Head of US Capital, Stress Testing, Scenario Analysis, and Reporting, Barclays

2:15-2:50

RISK ASSESSMENTS
Financial crime compliance risk assessments: What should you do?

  • What are Financial Crime Compliance Risk Assessments?

    • Is there any specific regulatory guidance?

    • How many different types of FinCrime risk assessments are there?

    • What purpose do risk assessments serve?

  • How to undertake and perform a risk assessment

    • What information is needed?

    • Who should be included?

    • Understanding risks and controls

    • Roles of the three lines of defense

    • What are the results used for?

  • Leveraging technology for risk

Beth Berenbaum,Director, Compliance Risk Assessment Officer, ICBC New York Branch

2:15-2:50

M&A
Reviewing the increase in M&A activity and understanding regulatory expectations

  • Understanding M&A appetite from regulators
  • Reviewing impact to fintechs and funding
  • Reviewing appetite for M&A in the future
  • Understanding the strategy of growth with increased M&A activity
  • Balancing growth of the bank in a safe manner

Kinjal Rajawat,Associate Director, Private Markets,OMERS

2:15-2:50

FAIR LENDING
Leveraging AI to ensure fair lending and ensure equitable access to credit for all borrowers

  • Identifying and mitigating bias in AI credit models
  • Ensuring compliance with fair lending regulations
  • Leveraging AI for reading and interpreting financial statements
  • Increased focus from CFPB on fair lending
  • Mitigating algorithmic bias in lending decisions while ensuring CRA compliance

Liming Brotcke,Sr Director, CCB BL Risk,Ally

2:50-3:20

Afternoon refreshment break and networking

3:20-3:55

OPEN BANKING
Mitigating increased privacy challenges with the open banking rules.

  • Managing data privacy with new open banking rule
  • Reviewing regulatory approaches to data protection
  • Mitigating increased cyber security risks with open banking
  • Implementing authentication and authorization processes

Adam Ennamli,Chief Risk, Compliance and Security Officer,General Bank of Canada

3:20-3:55

HIRING TALENT
Identifying skill gaps and hiring talent that have expertise in AI

  • Balancing experienced hires Vs younger tech talent
  • Reassessing optimal workforce size and structure in light of AI-driven productivity gains
  • Identifying skills and roles necessary for future workforce needs
  • Optimizing human-AI collaboration to enhance productivity and decision-making

Moderated by: Maggi Bin Lai, Executive Director, Enterprise Non-Financial Risk, Morgan Stanley

Manish Chakrabarti, Head of Model Risk Management, Vanguard

3:20-3:55

EQUITY INDEX
Mitigating a concentrated market and diversifying the portfolio for investors

  • Constructing a portfolio to outperform the benchmark
  • Managing portfolios when top names dominate the benchmark
  • Balancing fundamentals analysis with crowded trade considerations
  • Holding large-cap stocks and avoiding underperformance relative to the index
  • Managing risk and potential returns influenced by high-weight stocks

Yakov Shenkman,Director Head of Risk for Fundamental Equity in Americas,BlackRock

3:20-3:55

CLIMATE RISK
Exploring financial implications of natural disasters and strategies to mitigate impact on the portfolio

  • Highlighting the need for financial support when rebuilding efforts after natural disaster
  • Reviewing the need for funding for immediate relief and long-term recovery
  • Assessing potential shifts in investment strategies
  • Refocusing hedge funds and investors goals for sustainability investments

Anand Hingway,Executive Director, Environmental & Social Risk Management,CIBC

3:55-4:40

DIGITAL ASSETS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Identifying unique risks posed by digital assets and building mitigation strategies

  • Evaluating blockchain as a foundational technology
  • Assessing the impact of tokenization on traditional financial markets
  • Navigating evolving regulations around digital assets
  • Adapting existing risk models to accommodate digital assets

Ana De Sousa,CEO,Agio Ratings

Ash Majid, CRO, FalconX

Paul Feldman, Senior Director, FTI Consulting

3:55-4:40

RCSA – PANEL DISCUSSION
Breaking down silos to create an overarching RCSA framework

  • Aligning RCSAs with product lines for holistic risk management
  • Capturing company wide vulnerabilities
  • Streamlining data and systems
  • Creating KRIs and monitoring thresholds to enhance risk oversight
  • Bringing AI capabilities to improve efficiency and accuracy

Olga Voytenko,Senior Vice President,Forbright Bank

Asha Gowda,Senior Vice President, Director – Chief Operating Officer – Market and Treasury Risk Management,KeyCorp

3:55-4:40

MODELING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Reviewing the added pressure to model validation when working in a volatile market and leveraging AI to stay ahead

  • Accuracy of AI models in managing and adapting to market volatility
  • Modeling geopolitical impact to the market dynamics
  • Modeling credit risk and unexpected shocks to enhance resilience
  • Calibrating models to account for potential future market shocks

Riten Dixit,VP, Market Risk,Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati

Anthony Tantillo,Market Risk Analytics Lead,Mizuho Americas

3:55-4:40

FUNDING
Funding optimization to enhance Nii

  • Session Details TBC

Charles Richard, Co-Founder,QRM

4:40-4:50

Chair’s closing remarks and end of Convention

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