GCC Banks Capitalizing on Regulatory Headwinds with Tech

Jaffar Hussain

Group Head of Liquidity and Market Risk

National Bank of Bahrain

Jaffar Hussain is the Group Head of Liquidity and Market Risk at the National Bank of Bahrain. He is a financial engineer with over 15 years of experience in the banking industry. Over the last few years he’s been focusing on building optimal technology architectures for treasury and risk management functions including facilitating the use of big data analytics, Cloud-based databases, and Machine-Learning algorithms

Boris Grozev

Country Head

Bloomberg L.P.

Boris has been working with for Bloomberg on various positions for the last 10 years across countries and geographies. As a part of his most recent role, with his team he is helping regional banks digitise and optimise their treasury and risk technology footprint.

VIJESH LLOYD PERIS

Middle East & Africa Treasury Market Specialist

BLOOMBERG/ DUBAI OFFICE

Vijesh is a Treasury market specialist at Bloomberg, covering Middle East & Africa. His area of focus & expertise include trading and risk management for cross asset solutions. Vijesh has been with Bloomberg since July 2018 prior to which he used to be a derivatives structurer and trader for almost 10 years with different institutions in the region.

Kamel Abou Khalil

Middle East TOMS Account Manager

BLOOMBERG/ LONDON

Kamel is a technologist. He has helped clients across geographies implement their treasury digitisation strategies as well as improve their operational efficiency.

Alessandro Il Grande

Treasury Sell Side Specialist

Bloomberg L.P.

Alessandro is a Sell Side specialist focusing on treasury and risk technology. He has been working with Bloomberg for more than 10 years mainly in Europe and MEA supporting the banking community automating and enhancing their technology stack.