Basel III Unpacked: Market Voices on Liquidity & Trading
We’ll dive into two key areas:
- Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR): exploring HQLA, market depth measurement, and the renewed focus from regulators
- Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB): understanding diverging timelines, jurisdictional deviations, and the pressing data hurdles for both SA and IMA approaches.
Speakers
Dr Azar Khurshid
Executive Director, Global Risk Management
Mizuho International
Dr Azar Khurshid is leading the global risk management group at Mizuho International in London. Azar has a broad and extensive background in market risk management with a focus on FRTB. He helped Mizuho to be amongst the first global banks to fully deploy FRTB for regulatory capital for JFSA. He is currently leading the group to extending the SA and IMA implementation of the FRTB programme to other regulatory regions and overseeing the global market risk capital platform.
Ronak Parekh
Vice President, Liquidity Risk Analytics and Reporting
Goldman Sachs
Ronak is a financial services professional with over 20 years of experience in liquidity risk management, stress testing, and strategic change across top global investment banks. He currently leads Liquidity Stress Testing and Reporting initiatives at Goldman Sachs, driving key enhancements to the firm’s liquidity risk framework. Previously, he held senior roles at Standard Chartered, UBS, and Deutsche Bank, leading major transformation and regulatory programs within Treasury and Risk functions.
Thomas Labbe
Regulatory Data Product Development Manager
Bloomberg
Thomas Labbe is a Regulatory Data Product Manager at Bloomberg. He is working closely with market participants, industry working groups and regulators to understand regulaotry challenges and build corresponding data solutions. Based in London, he has a global remit, allowing him to understand how a particular regulation impacts other jurisdictions. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2016, Thomas worked for 15 years at Morgan Stanley and 2 years at Jefferies in London as a trader in rates and credit products.
Brice Blehiri
Risk & Regulatory Data Specialist
Bloomberg
Brice Blehiri is a Risk and Regulatory specialist for Bloomberg’s Enterprise Data in London. Brice joined Bloomberg in 2014 and has worked in several departments, inc.: Global Data and Enterprise Sales. He is now responsible for helping clients across EMEA to implement and automate risk and regulatory processes. He has worked on the implementation of various Bloomberg product offerings, including the UAE & Qatar HQLA solutions to help institutions meet Basel III and local requirements with greater efficiency and confidence.
Rong Ma
Product Manager, Regulatory Data Solutions
Bloomberg
Rong Ma is a Product Manager in Bloomberg’s Regulatory Data Solutions group. She has almost ten years of experience working in Basel Regulation related projects. In her current role, she designs, develops and implements solutions that help clients to comply with various regulation standards. Before she joined Bloomberg in 2014, Rong was a Quantitative Risk Analyst at Bank of New York Mellon. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics.