Priips: Final Countdown to Regulatory Changes
Speakers
Abdessamad Khaled
Head of Structured Products & Derivatives Pricing
Bloomberg
Abdess Khaled is a product manager for cross-asset derivatives at Bloomberg. He is responsible for derivatives workflows including pre-trade pricing analytics as well as post-trade lifecycle, risk management and valuation. Abdess oversees structured products globally leading Bloomberg development and strategy to deliver solutions to clients on the sell-side investment banks and buy-side hedge funds, private banks and asset managers. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2014, Abdess has spent 10 years in investment banking. He was a Director at Barclays where he held various roles. He was running the equity, converts and hybrid quant team responsible for pricing and risk managing derivatives. He helped develop Barclay's electronic pricing platform for structured products. Abdess holds a Master in quantitative finance from French Engineering School l'Ecole des Mines de Paris.
Jce Mchale
Head of Regulatory Affairs for EMEA and APAC
Bloomberg L.P.
Joe McHale is Head of European Government and Regulatory Affairs at Bloomberg in London where he is responsible for analysing and responding to financial services reforms impacting Bloomberg and its clients. Since taking up his role in 2016, Joe's main focus has been on EMIR and MIFID II implementation, the Capital Markets Union initiative, the sustainable finance agenda and Bloomberg's response to the UK's withdrawal from the EU. Prior to Bloomberg, Joe worked for Deutsche Bank in London and headed the capital markets team in its Regulatory Affairs Department. Prior to Deutsche, Joe spent six years working in Brussels; first as a regulatory consultant for clients on EU legislation and then as a policy expert at the European Banking Federation where he advocated on EU financial markets legislation adopted in the wake of the financial crisis.
Mahir Lokvancic
Quantitative Analyst
BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEX
Mahir Lokvancic is quantitative analyst modeling rates and cross asset products. Prior to Bloomberg L.P., Mahir was with Capital One Bank, where he headed the team responsible for validation and risk management of firm-wide pricing, risk, and capital models for interest rates and commodity derivatives, XVA, VaR, PFE, and market risk economic capital. Prior to Capital One Bank, Mahir was with UBS, non-linear rates and exotics desk quantitative analyst responsible for pricing, risk, P&L, and strategy solutions.