Welcome to Bloomberg APAC Regulatory Week 2021 — five days of in-depth webinars and roundtables surveying the shifting regulatory landscape as economic, geopolitical and pandemic-driven disruption continues to rock the international market environment.
Join our experts to learn what’s changed in risk and regulation, what pitfalls and implementation challenges you should be paying most attention to, and what data and regtech solutions are available to help your firm master uncertainty and seize new opportunities.
APAC Regulatory Week – Advanced Risk Management for the Sell Side
On Demand
Duration: 40 Minutes
Vast amounts of data and communication, the use of emerging technologies, and changing regulatory requirements can make compliance a daunting task.
Join us learn more about the implementation of regulatory changes, client on-boarding, due diligence, pre- and post-trade compliance and trade reconstruction.
Speakers
Jack Zhou
Financial Engineering and Risk Product Manager
BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX
Jack Zhou manages the MARS API product, which enables customers to programmatically access to Bloomberg's multi-asset pricing and risk engine. Prior to this role at Bloomberg, Jack headed the Financial Engineering Valuation Services globally. His responsibilities include BVAL Derivatives pricing and volatility data calculations. Jack joined Bloomberg in 2009. Previously he was a quantitative analyst at Royal Bank of Canada, and a senior structurer at Deutsche Bank Securities' equity derivative trading desk. He holds a master of Mathematical Finance degree from University of Waterloo.
Gaurav Kapoor
Market Specialist - Derivatives & Risk
Bloomberg L.P.
Gaurav specializes in X-asset derivatives pricing and risk management at Bloomberg and leads the structured products strategy for the APAC region.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, he has worked in the corporate and investment banking industry across Asia & Europe including specializing in structuring of complex derivative products. He is passionate about quantitative finance and risk management, with a keen interest in application of machine learning techniques in finance.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering and MBA (Finance) from the M.S. University of Baroda. Gaurav has also been awarded the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF) and is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM).
APAC Regulatory Week – Advanced Risk Management for the Buy Side
On Demand
Duration: 62 Minutes
In the current market environment, risk management and future-proofing is becoming increasingly relevant. With a growing emphasis on the credit space and liquidity risk management, many market participants are reviewing their approaches to technology and data to introduce greater consistency and coverage.
How can you evaluate if your business workflow is compliant, integrated and efficient? How can adoption of technology and best practices help you thrive?
Speakers
Zane Van Dusen
Global Head of Risk & Investment Analytics
Bloomberg
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.
David Croen
Global Credit Risk Product Manager
Bloomberg LP
David Croen is head of credit risk products for Bloomberg, L.P., working in the firm’s enterprise product business. Prior to joining Bloomberg, David led risk management and valuation for global banks and asset managers, with specialization in credit and securitization. He contributed to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets Best Practices for Risk Management (2008), and has advised U.S. regulators and accounting firms on complex structured finance transactions. David earned a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and an MBA in Finance, both from the University of Rochester.
Chintan Shah
Global Front Office Risk Product Manager
Bloomberg L.P.
Chintan Shah is a global product manager for MARS Front Office. Chintan advises insurers, pensions, and corporate treasuries on leading practices in enterprise risk management, and asset-liability management practices. Prior to his role at Bloomberg, Chintan spent 11 years in the industry working at AIG, Ernst & Young Advisory, Barclays, and Deutsche Bank.
Vast amounts of data and communication, the use of emerging technologies, and changing regulatory requirements can make compliance a daunting task.
Join us learn more about the implementation of regulatory changes, client on-boarding, due diligence, pre- and post-trade compliance and trade reconstruction.
Speakers
Amy Kwan
Head of Post-trade Technology, APAC
Bloomberg L.P.
Amy is Head of APAC Post-Trade Technology at Bloomberg LP, overseeing financial data compliance and regulation reporting solutions for customers in Asia Pacific. She is responsible for planning, identifying, and implementing the ever-evolving financial technology to help clients adopt automation and streamline their trading work-flow process, bringing post-trade connectivity and efficiency to the Middle and Back Office Community.
Amy joined Bloomberg in 2000 holding numerous positions in managing Sales, Market Specialist and Product Specialist teams developing tools and solutions for electronic trading and trading applications across multi-asset classes. Before joining Bloomberg, Amy lends years of front office experience working at various Investment Banks.
Kelvin Ng
APAC Electronic Trading Sales
Bloomberg
APAC Regulatory Week – Tackling IFRS9 Implementation for Insurance Companies and Asset Managers
On Demand
Duration: 54 Minutes
To tackle the challenges presented by IFRS 9’s new rules for financial instrument accounting, organizations must implement solutions that are scalable, defensible, and derived from a consistent source of reference data and valuation.
Join Bloomberg’s subject matter experts as they cover how our comprehensive solutions can tackle all three main pillars of IFRS 9 (Classification and Measurement, Impairment, and Hedge Accounting), as well as addressing other ongoing requirements on fair valuation and pricing transparency.
Speakers
Scott Coulter
Global Product Manager, Accounting & Regulatory
Bloomberg L.P.
Scott Coulter is the Global Product Manager responsible for Bloomberg's Accounting & Risk data. In this role, he works with the broad industry to develop solutions that leverage Bloomberg's data and calculators to help address accounting, risk and regulatory challenges. Scott leverages extensive experience in the financial services industry and expertise in accounting, regulatory and risk consulting to develop products that enable clients to efficiently manage risk and comply with regulatory standards.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Scott most recently worked as a technical accounting and regulatory consultant at Ernst & Young LLP, specializing in a broad range of accounting and regulatory topics.
Eva de Leon
Global Product Manager, Hedge Accounting
Bloomberg
Eva is the Product Manager for the Hedge Accounting solution at Bloomberg LP. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was a Treasury Controller at BAA UK. She has worked as a consultant and a subject matter expert on accounting for financial instruments and hedge accounting at Lloyds Banking Group, Deutsche Bank and a Treasury systems provider. She has also worked at EY and KPMG in their treasury risk practice. She holds an MBA at Ashridge Business School.
APAC Regulatory Week – How Well Prepared Are You for LIBOR Transition?
On Demand
Duration: 32 Minutes
How well prepared are you for LIBOR transition? As the market enters the final stretch of LIBOR deprecation, it’s time to review common challenges facing financial institutions and examine any remaining gaps and deficiencies from a data and system infrastructure perspective. In this session, Bloomberg’s regulatory data specialists and risk specialists will review key areas of focus in LIBOR transition, including fallback language for floating rate notes, ISDA fallback rates, as well as valuation and risk analysis tools that allow firms to assess the impact of transition.
For more sessions, please visit www.bloomberglp.com/2021APACRegWeek.
Speakers
Steffan Tsilimos
Global Product Manager – Interest Rate Derivatives
Bloomberg L.P.
Steffan Tsilimos is the Global Product Manager for Interest Rate Derivatives at Bloomberg, LP . He is responsible for guiding product development, interest rate modeling, and coordinating the LIBOR transition for derivatives at Bloomberg. In addition, he oversees the company’s structuring, pricing, and risk platforms for Interest Rate Derivatives. He has written articles for Bloomberg Markets Magazine and Bloomberg Weekly Structured Notes Newsbrief. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a Director at UBS, where he traded Interest Rate Derivatives and Structured Products. He has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from NYU Stern.
Pranav Thakkar
Global Fixed Income Business Manager
Bloomberg L.P.
Pranav Thakkar is a Global Fixed Income Business Manager at Bloomberg. He manages the Credit analytics (YAS), Repo's, Horizon Analysis and Credit workflows products. Through 20+ years' working in Fixed Income, Pranav has led the development of Credit analytics for Corps, Govt, Loans, Prfds, Mmkt and Munis securities. He also managed the initial launch and business strategy of PORT Fixed income Intraday, Scenario analysis and Portfolio management tools. He currently heads up the FI Libor Transition initiative efforts for Bloomberg. Pranav holds a Master's in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Georges Gras
Regulatory & Accounting Content Manager
BLOOMBERG/ LONDON
Georges Gras is part of the Regulatory & Accounting Product group at Bloomberg,LP . Primarily looking after the IBOR Fallback Language product, he is supporting product development, conducting research and quality control, as well as responding to client inquiries on our Regulatory and Accounting product suite, focusing on our Capital and Liquidity solutions.
APAC Regulatory Week – the Year of Credit Risk: Crisis Response and Recovery (with Regulation Asia)
On Demand
Duration: 68 Minutes
In collaboration with Bloomberg, Regulation Asia surveyed 113 senior banking executives with direct responsibility for credit risk and related functions across 90 institutions in 16 countries between November 2020 and August 2021. Global, regional and domestic banking institutions were represented in the sample.
In this session, Bloomberg and Regulation Asia will discuss the insights the survey has provided into the credit, liquidity, MIPD, and accounting impacts for banks arising from COVID-19.
For more sessions, please visit www.bloomberglp.com/2021APACRegWeek
Speakers
Bradley Maclean
Co-founder
Regulation Asia
Bradley co-founded Regulation Asia and currently serves as Head of Research. He was previously Vice President of Business Development at SunGard Financial Systems (now FIS) heading up strategic, business planning and product development across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, in total overseeing 36 countries. Prior to that Brad was a management consultant focused on alternative assets. He was involved in several significant research programmes, including one assisting on TARP in 2008 for the US Treasury Department and the World Bank.
David Croen
Global Credit Risk Product Manager
Bloomberg LP
David Croen is head of credit risk products for Bloomberg, L.P., working in the firm’s enterprise product business. Prior to joining Bloomberg, David led risk management and valuation for global banks and asset managers, with specialization in credit and securitization. He contributed to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets Best Practices for Risk Management (2008), and has advised U.S. regulators and accounting firms on complex structured finance transactions. David earned a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and an MBA in Finance, both from the University of Rochester.
Hugo Rodriguez Bautista
Global Product Manager, Risk and Investment Analytics
Bloomberg L.P.
Hugo Rodriguez Bautista is a Global Product Risk Manager for the Risk and Investments analytics group. In his role he’s responsible for creating solutions to help financial institutions take more educated decisions when investing and to better manage the risks associated with it. Hugo assists in ensuring proper capture of daily market movements and converting into data driven solutions. Prior joining Bloomberg, Hugo directed large scale engagements by implementing quantitative risk management frameworks, providing risk strategy in capital markets, and implementing trading systems, securities and derivatives in US, Europe and Latam.
Dennis To leads Bloomberg's regulatory data business for the Asia Pacific region. Dennis oversees the development of new data sets in response to changes in regulatory and accounting landscape, including FRTB, Libor Transition, new IFRS standards, Uncleared Margin Rules and Liquidity Risk Management frameworks. Before joining the Enterprise Solutions business, Dennis worked as the Market Specialist at Bloomberg, covering fixed income and derivatives products for the Greater China region. He has helped to promote and develop Bloomberg's fixed income offerings, such as the emergence of Kungfu Bonds (Chinese USD Credits) in recent years.
APAC Regulatory Week – How Financial Institutions in Asia Should Prepare for Upcoming ESG Regulatory Developments
On Demand
Duration: 35 Minutes
With global and local regulators putting additional emphasis on ESG from a reporting and compliance perspective, financial institutions are under pressure to gather the necessary data points for regulatory reporting from a fragmented marketplace.
Join Bloomberg’s ESG data experts as they explore how financial institutions in Asia should be preparing for upcoming regulatory developments in the ESG space, including carbon / GHG estimates, sustainable debt, data mapping for SFDR, and EU taxonomy.
For more sessions, please visit www.bloomberglp.com/2021APACRegWeek.
Speakers
MURAT BOZDEMIR
Regulatory and Reference Data Product Manager
BLOOMBERG/ LONDON
Murat heads Bloomberg's EMEA and APAC product development for Reference and Regulatory & Accounting Enterprise data solutions. He interacts with clients and regulators, identifying key challenges and supporting the development of new data sets. Murat has 16 years of risk management and compliance experience covering sell and buy side markets. Before joining Bloomberg, Murat worked as a Director at KPMG, advising clients in risk control, capital management, compliance and accounting.
Rokhsana Saddighzadeh
ESG Regulation Product Manager
Bloomberg
Rokhsana Saddighzadeh is the Global Product Manager for Bloomberg's Compliance and Tax Data products. She has been in this role for 5 years, prior to which she held a number of other roles at Bloomberg LP in London including Team Leader of KYC analysts as well as Syndicated Loans data specialist. Rokhsana's educational background lies in linguistics, with a focus on French and Spanish languages, having spent a year in both locations.
Enrique Neves-martin
ESG Data Product Manager
BLOOMBERG/ 120 PARK
Enrique is responsible for the development of sustainable finance related solutions in Bloomberg's Enterprise Data division. He manages the entire product line life cycle, including designing; product development and go-to-market strategy. Enrique joined Bloomberg’s Global Data department in 2001, managing data teams in London, focusing on procurement and management of financial data. Enrique holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance at Universidad Complutense in Madrid.
APAC Regulatory Week – Regulations with an Impact on Apac’s Buy Side
On Demand
Duration: 33 Minutes
The regulatory environment in which firms operate continues to gain in complexity — from the looming implementation of capital requirements (IFR/IFD), new accounting standards for insurance companies (IFRS9) and LIBOR transition, to business pressures and scrutiny around credit and counterparty risk.
Join Bloomberg's risk and regulatory data team for an overview of our roadmap of regulatory developments specific for the buy side, including new accounting standards and fair value requirements, tax implications, sanctions compliance and more, as well as best practices to tackle regulations with a strategic, data-driven approach.
For more sessions, please visit www.bloomberglp.com/2021APACRegWeek.
Speakers
Bradley Foster
Head of Content (Enterprise Data) at Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P.
Brad Foster joined Bloomberg in June 2017 and currently manages the Data Content group within Enterprise Data. In his role, Brad has a global remit that includes Bloomberg Evaluated Pricing for all cash products (BVAL) including GSAC, Municipal Bonds & Securitized Products, Regulatory & Accounting Products, Liquidity Assessment (LQA) and all Reference Data. Prior to joining Bloomberg Brad spent almost 20 years on the sell-side in multiple locations including London, Tokyo and New York. He worked at Deutsche Bank as a Managing Director in trading and was responsible for various front office desks across debt, FX and credit trading, front office risk management where he managed a team that built cross-product risk, margin and portfolio analytics and looked after regulatory initiatives including Basel III / CRD IV and Dodd-Frank Uncleared Margin. Prior to Deutsche Bank he was at Credit Suisse First Boston in the market risk management group.
Dennis To leads Bloomberg's regulatory data business for the Asia Pacific region. Dennis oversees the development of new data sets in response to changes in regulatory and accounting landscape, including FRTB, Libor Transition, new IFRS standards, Uncleared Margin Rules and Liquidity Risk Management frameworks. Before joining the Enterprise Solutions business, Dennis worked as the Market Specialist at Bloomberg, covering fixed income and derivatives products for the Greater China region. He has helped to promote and develop Bloomberg's fixed income offerings, such as the emergence of Kungfu Bonds (Chinese USD Credits) in recent years.
APAC Regulatory Week – Regulations with an Impact on Apac’s Sell Side
On Demand
Duration: 30 Minutes
The regulatory environment in which firms operate continues to gain in complexity — from the looming implementation of capital requirements (IFR/IFD and FRTB), new accounting standards for insurance companies (IFRS9) and LIBOR transition, to business pressures and scrutiny around credit and counterparty risk.
Join Bloomberg's risk and regulatory data team for an overview of our roadmap of regulatory developments specific for the sell side, including capital requirements, investor protection, regulatory reporting, sanctions compliance, and more, as well as best practices to tackle regulations with a strategic, data-driven approach.
For more sessions, please visit www.bloomberglp.com/2021APACRegWeek.
Speakers
Bradley Foster
Head of Content (Enterprise Data) at Bloomberg L.P.
Bloomberg L.P.
Brad Foster joined Bloomberg in June 2017 and currently manages the Data Content group within Enterprise Data. In his role, Brad has a global remit that includes Bloomberg Evaluated Pricing for all cash products (BVAL) including GSAC, Municipal Bonds & Securitized Products, Regulatory & Accounting Products, Liquidity Assessment (LQA) and all Reference Data. Prior to joining Bloomberg Brad spent almost 20 years on the sell-side in multiple locations including London, Tokyo and New York. He worked at Deutsche Bank as a Managing Director in trading and was responsible for various front office desks across debt, FX and credit trading, front office risk management where he managed a team that built cross-product risk, margin and portfolio analytics and looked after regulatory initiatives including Basel III / CRD IV and Dodd-Frank Uncleared Margin. Prior to Deutsche Bank he was at Credit Suisse First Boston in the market risk management group.
Dennis To leads Bloomberg's regulatory data business for the Asia Pacific region. Dennis oversees the development of new data sets in response to changes in regulatory and accounting landscape, including FRTB, Libor Transition, new IFRS standards, Uncleared Margin Rules and Liquidity Risk Management frameworks. Before joining the Enterprise Solutions business, Dennis worked as the Market Specialist at Bloomberg, covering fixed income and derivatives products for the Greater China region. He has helped to promote and develop Bloomberg's fixed income offerings, such as the emergence of Kungfu Bonds (Chinese USD Credits) in recent years.
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