Expert Perspectives on the Changes to Market Risk
Join our round table of industry experts as they discuss what their strategies have been to address both regional and global challenges arising from this significant change to market risk capital rules.
Discussion topics:
· Fundamental changes in the risk space
· Pending regulations accepted within the region
· Regional and global strategies applied to evolve
Speakers
Nauman Ali Khan
Executive Vice President, Head of Enterprise Risk Management
Mashreq Bank
Nauman is a seasoned Banking professional with multi-discipline experience built over 20 years in financial services across UK, Canada and UAE. Currently, Nauman leads Mashreq’s Enterprise Risk Management function and is responsible for definition, implementation and oversight of Mashreq Bank’s Risk Management framework across UAE and International locations. In addition, Nauman is also entrusted with leading Mashreq’s LIBOR transition program covering all aspects of the transition including central strategy, client engagement, legal, systems and operations. Prior to joining Mashreq Bank in 2019, Nauman held progressively senior positions in Credit, Risk and Treasury with large international banks including Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HSBC, most recently being the Managing Director of Capital Optimization and Analytics in Group Treasury at RBC. Nauman is a certified Financial Risk Manager from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK. In his spare time, Nauman likes to scout for Islamic art and exploring the sights and sounds of UAE along with his wife and three children.
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
Boris has been working for Bloomberg in 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.
Aimen El Hadj
Risk Solutions Specialist
BLOOMBERG/ LONDON
Aimen El Hadj is a Risk solution specialist at Bloomberg, covering Africa. His areas of expertise include Trading, Market Risk, Counterparty and Credit Risk as well as Collateral mitigation. Aimen has 14 years of experience in product management and sales helping various sell side institutions in Europe and Africa to adapt their technology stack to a moving regulatory and business landscape.