Eleventh Annual Risk Management Conference: Pre-Conference Workshop
Date:
05 July 2017
Venue: Conrad Centennial Singapore
Jointly organized by IACPM and RMI
Eleventh Annual Risk Management Conference: Pre-Conference Workshop
Credit Portfolio Management Educational Workshop
This Workshop provides an essential course on the basics of credit portfolio management, including Evolution of Risk and Credit Portfolio Management and Applied Topics. Among the issues to be addressed are: risk appetite and risk culture; new approaches to credit analysis – linking credit and liquidity; applied discussions on insurance as a tool of risk mitigation; counterparty risk; expanding roles of development banks and their private sector operations and case studies on current risk and portfolio management business models and practices. Participants will gain practical knowledge and valuable insights on credit portfolio management organization, tools and techniques from senior practitioners at major financial institutions.
Speakers
Marcia A. Banks
Marcia A. Banks
Deputy Director
International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers
Marcia Banks is the Deputy Director of the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM). The IACPM is a non-profit industry association dedicated to advancing the practice of risk and credit portfolio management through advocacy, research, education, communication and promotion of sound practices. IACPM members total 95 financial institutions around the globe, including primarily banks and also international financial institutions and export credit agencies, insurance companies and funds and asset managers.
Previously, Marcia was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, heading the portfolio management team covering the Bank’s middle market and mid-sized corporate portfolio (JPMorgan Chase) and the large corporate portfolio at Bank One. Marcia’s previous experience at the Bank also includes over twelve years in the Loan Syndication Department and marketing positions for a number of capital markets products.
Marcia has served on the Boards of the IACPM and the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA). Marcia also teaches MBA courses regularly on risk management and credit portfolio management at University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds an MBA, Finance, from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BSFS, Economics, from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Julian Keenan
Julian Keenan
Head of Credit Portfolio Trading (APAC)
JP Morgan
Julian Keenan is the Head of Credit Portfolio Trading (APAC) at JP Morgan. He has 20yrs experience in across numerous markets. His background is in exotic derivatives before moving into Credit Portfolio Management and setting up the CVA desk at Commerzbank in 2007. He has subsequently set-up XVA desks at 2 other banks with a focus on hedging XVA risks and capital optimization.
Craig Roberts
Craig Roberts
Director
Portfolio Management Division
Private Sector Operations Department
Asian Development Bank
Craig Roberts heads the Portfolio Management Division and is part of the Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) Regional Management Team. The Division is accountable for proactively managing all private sector projects and investments throughout a transaction’s lifecycle, once a deal is booked. He joined ADB in December 2014.
Craig was previously employed by The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for more than 15 years and held multiple front office banking positions across origination, risk and portfolio management. He has been based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and London. His most recent role was Director, Head of Portfolio Management, Asia Pacific, accountable for managing the RBS APAC balance sheet in coordination with Risk, Finance and Treasury. Craig was a Chair of both the Bank’s Capital Allocation Committee and Regional Reputational Risk and New Business Committee.
Prior to RBS, he worked in the UK Civil Service from 1995 to 1998. Craig was educated at The City of London Polytechnic and University College London and holds degrees in business and public international law. He is a Barrister, having been called to the Bar of England and Wales by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.
Torsten Kleine Buening
Torsten Kleine Buening
Chief Risk Officer
XacBank
Torsten Kleine Buening was appointed as Chief Risk Officer at XacBank in January 2017. He is responsible for managing Credit, Market, Liquidity and Operational Risk and Compliance. He joined XacBank from Standard Chartered, where he served as Head, Governance for Enterprise Risk Management. Torsten is an experienced risk practitioner with 16 years of experience covering conventional and Islamic Finance in developed and emerging markets. His career spans across a diverse range of leadership roles for risk and capital management, risk governance and modelling in regional and multi-national financial institutions as well as start-ups and risk related roles in consulting. Further, Torsten drove projects and change initiatives including a Basel II implementation across 11 countries. Torsten draws his experience from engagements in US, Europe, Middle East and most recently Singapore; and holds a degree as Diplom Wirtschafts-Informatiker / Master of Science on Information Systems of Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster / Germany.
Frankie Phua
Frankie Phua
Managing Director and Head of Credit & Country Risk Management
United Overseas Bank (UOB)
Frankie Phua is currently the Managing Director and the Head of Group Risk Management Division in United Overseas Bank Limited (“UOB”).
In this role, he oversees all risk management matters for UOB Group including credit risk, market risk, balance sheet risk, operational risk management, integrated fraud management and product control & governance and risk analytics.
Frankie’s areas of expertise include credit policy, credit research, counterparty credit risk management, credit risk modeling, economic capital, credit portfolio management, country risk management and stress testing. He played an instrumental role as the Basel II Project Coordinator for UOB, overseeing UOB Group’s Basel II Programme Management Office and successfully managing the Group's Basel II Internal Rating-Based implementation efforts. UOB was granted approval by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to adopt the Internal Rating-Based Approach for credit risk with effect from 1 Jan 2008.
Outside the Bank, Frankie is active in the risk management committee. Currently the Chairman and a Director of the Board of the Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association ("RMA") in US. The principle objective of RMA Singapore Chapter is to promote sound credit and risk management practices in Singapore. This is achieved through the facilitation of seminars, meetings, conferences, research projects and other educational activities. RMA Singapore organises regular lunch talks on topics of current interest to the local financial community, to foster and build relationships amongst risk practitioners.
Frankie is currently appointed by Risk Management Institute (“RMI”), National University of Singapore ("NUS") to teach the Specialist Diploma in Credit Risk Management – Corporate Banking. Frankie is also regularly engaged by NUS RMI to teach customized risk management courses specially tailored to clients' needs.
Frankie is currently appointed by Risk Management Institute (“RMI”), National University of Singapore ("NUS") to teach the Specialist Diploma in Credit Risk Management – Corporate Banking. Frankie is also regularly engaged by NUS RMI to teach customized risk management courses specially tailored to clients' needs.
Frankie is a regular speaker and shares his thought leadership at various risk management conferences including RiskMinds, ISDA, IACPM, and NUS RMI. Regionally Frankie has conducted credit risk trainings for banks in Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Vietnam and Taiwan. He also teaches credit risk courses for Euromoney.
Prior to joining UOB Credit Risk Management, Frankie had more than 10 years of frontline experience in corporate and investment banking gained from his tenure at leading international banks
Daniel Gelinas
Daniel Gelinas
Head of IFRS 9 Risk Delivery
- Daniel has an MSc Finance from Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Montreal)
- Daniel has been at SCB for 8 years
- For IFRS 9, Daniel is responsible for Group Risk’s role in the IFRS 9 Programme. He leads the delivery of the impairment solution including ECL models, ECL calculator and operating model.
- He has 21 years of experience in Risk Management, covering a wide range of areas such as model development, stress testing, Risk Appetite and portfolio management.
- He has been living in Singapore with his family for the since 2008.
- He has worked at National Bank of Canada, Sunlife Financials, Swiss Re and Standard Chartered Bank.
Mark Houghton
Mark Houghton
Regional Manager - Asia Pacific
XL Caitlin
Mark Houghton is currently the Asia Pacific Regional Manager for XL Catlin’s Political Risk & Trade Credit business based in Singapore focusing on cross border trade and investment into emerging markets. Having spent 15 years in banking including roles in origination and client coverage, project and export finance, syndications, securitization, portfolio management and alternative risk distribution before joining XL Catlin in June 2012. Starting his career with the National Australia Bank, he moved to London where he worked for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC). Mark established SMBC’s global insurance distribution function as an alternative risk management tool to supplement other non-functioning markets. In this role he coordinated the purchase of political risk and trade credit insurance globally for SMBC. Returning to Asia Mark joined Standard Chartered where he was responsible for managing the political and credit risk insurance requirements for Transaction Banking on a global basis. Having worked intimately with the insurance market from a client perspective, Mark brings to XL Catlin a unique understanding of a client’s need for, and perspective of, political risk and trade credit insurance.
Fees
SGD 840
We are pleased to offer the following special rates and discount:
- Early bird special rate of SGD 670 (by 31 May)
- Academic rate of SGD 620
- 20% discount for group of 3 or more
*Prices are subject to 7% GST. Discount cannot be combined with other offers.
FTS-Eligible
This programme is approved for listing on the Financial Training Scheme (FTS) Programme Directory and is eligible for FTS claims subject to all eligibility criteria being met.
Please note that in no way does this represent an endorsement of the quality of the training provider and programme. Participants are advised to assess the suitability of the programme and its relevance to participants’ business activities or job roles.
The FTS is available to eligible entities, at a 50% funding level of programme fees subject to all eligibility criteria being met. FTS claims may only be made for programmes listed on the FTS Programme Directory with the specified validity period. Please refer to www.ibf.org.sg for more information.
If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact Marcia Banks at the IACPM, marcia@iacpm.org or Li Lei at RMI, rmill@nus.edu.sg