Seventeenth Annual Risk Management Conference – Pre-Conference Workshop
Date:
14 August 2024
Venue: Conrad Centennial Singapore
Jointly organised by IACPM and RMI
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: IFRS 9 and implementation impact; balancing the multiple constraints of liquidity and capital in practice; applied discussions on 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 Banks
Deputy Director
International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM)
Marcia Banks
Deputy Director, International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM)
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 over 100 financial institutions around the globe, including primarily banks but 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.
Rita Cham
Head of Financial Risk Oversight, APAC
Wells Fargo
Rita Cham
Head of Financial Risk Oversight, APAC
Wells Fargo
Rita Cham is an Executive Director and Senior Lead Credit Risk & Approval Officer in Corporate & Institutional Bank at Wells Fargo. In a recent prior role she oversaw financial risks in region as well as legal entity risk oversight responsibilities in leadership capacity including for the Singapore branch.
Rita has over 18 years of experience in financial industry across credit portfolio risk disciplines in enterprise and regional risk capacity including risk capital optimization, portfolio risk modelling, stress testing program, risk appetite, data risk and model risk, during her time in Westpac Banking Corporation and Standard Chartered.
Rita is a Fellow of Institute of Actuaries Australia and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of New South Wales.
Edward Cheak
Head of Credit and Political Risk Insurance, APAC
Miller Insurance
Edward Cheak
Head of Credit and Political Risk Insurance, APAC
Miller Insurance
Edward Cheak joins Miller Singapore as Head of Credit and Political Risk Insurance (Asia).
Edward brings with him a wealth of experience in financial services and risk management, having served most recently as a Director at Texel, as a specialist Credit and Political Risk Insurance broker.
Prior to Texel, he worked at KPMG and Deutsche Bank, amongst other international financial institutions, as a risk management consultant, risk management professional and user of the CPRI product.
Charles Ng
Director, Structured Credit Sales
Deutsche Bank Global Markets
Charles Ng
Director, Structured Credit Sales
Deutsche Bank Global Markets
Charles Ng is a senior member of the APAC credit distribution team within the Investment Bank. He has been with the credit business at Deutsche Bank since 2014 covering a broad range of credit products and institutional clients. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from Nanyang Technological University and is a CFA charter holder.
Thomas Ng
Director, Capital Management Unit, Structuring & Outplacement
LBBW
Thomas Ng
Director, Capital Management Unit, Structuring & Outplacement
LBBW
Thomas is the Director of Structuring & Outplacement team based in Singapore focusing on capital optimisation and steering the originate-and-distribute strategy for LBBW in Asia Pacific and globally. Prior to LBBW, he headed the syndication and investment solutions for Nord/LB in Asia Pacific and was responsible for all outplacement activities across project and asset finance. Thomas also spent five years underwriting credit and political risks for financial institutions in XL Catlin (now part of AXA group) focusing cross-border trade and emerging market investments across multiple asset classes such as structured commodity finance, syndicated loans and project and asset finance. With over 13 years of experience, his unique profile holds a combination of sell and buy side within the CPRI market. Thomas also served credit analytical roles in UOB and Fitch Ratings before entering the CPRI market.
Victor Ong
Deputy Chief Executive, Singapore Branch, Deputy Global Head, Portfolio Management, and Capital Risk Solutions, Global Credit, Axis Capital
Victor Ong
Deputy Chief Executive, Singapore Branch,
Deputy Global Head, Portfolio Management, and
Capital Risk Solutions, Global Credit,
Axis Capital
Victor Ong, CFA is the Deputy Chief Executive, Singapore branch and Deputy Global Head, Portfolio Management, Capital Risk Solutions for AXIS Capital (“AXIS”) – a leading provider of credit insurance and risk transfer solutions to banks, export credit agencies and multilateral agencies for project financing, aircraft financing and structured credit assets. Victor is the lead portfolio manager for Significant Risk Transfers and Project Finance for AXIS.
Victor has 20 years of experience covering structured financing and credit investments in both private and public markets across emerging and developed markets. Prior to AXIS, Victor worked for Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”) with stints as a Project Finance Banker in Singapore and an Origination and Coverage Banker in Hong Kong. Also as a member of SCB’s Structured Credit Investment Group in London, Victor covered fixed income, CLO and ABS investments.
A thought leader on synthetic risk transfer, structured finance and sustainable infrastructure financing, Victor has spoken at events organized/hosted by World Bank, International Monetary Fund, CFA Institute, Association for Financial Markets in Europe, Asia Pacific Structured Finance Association, Asia Pacific Loan Market Association, International Association of Credit Portfolio Management, ASEAN Energy Centre and International Project Finance Association. He has been an instructor/course leader for the CFA Society Singapore-Keppel Capital Infrastructure Financing and Investing workshop.
Victor holds a MBA from INSEAD and graduated with a double degree (magna cum laude) in Business Management and Accountancy from Singapore Management University. Victor was selected for and participated in the SMU-NUS AXSI Digital Finance Leadership Programme. Victor is a CFA® charterholder and a certified Financial Risk Manager (“FRM”). Victor also holds the Sustainability and Climate Risk certificate.
Victor is a board member of the CFA Society Singapore and is also serving as the Singapore representative on the Society Engagement Council for the CFA Institute Asia Research Exchange (“ARX”).
Frankie Phua
Managing Director
Head of Group Risk Management
UOB
Frankie Phua
Managing Director
Head of Group Risk Management
UOB
Frankie Phua is the Managing Director and Head of Group Risk Management at UOB. In this role, he oversees all risk management matters for UOB Group including credit risk, market risk, balance sheet risk, operational risk, fraud risk, technology risk, product control and model validation. Prior to joining UOB Risk Management, Frankie spent more than 10 years in the frontline in Corporate/Commercial banking.
Over the past 20-plus years in his career with UOB, Frankie has developed expertise in areas such as credit risk modelling, counterparty credit risk, economic capital, stress testing, credit portfolio optimization and country risk management.
Frankie, a seasoned risk practitioner, is an active contributor to the risk management community. He was actively involved with the industry to co-create the ABS Guidelines on Responsible Financing and MAS’s Guidelines on Environment Risk Management for Banks. He is also a member of the MAS Green Finance Industry Taskforce. Currently he is Chairman and a Director of the Board of the Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association ("RMA"), an organization associated with RMA USA. He is appointed by Risk Management Institute (“RMI”), National University of Singapore ("NUS") as a lecturer for the Specialist Diploma course in Credit Risk Management – Corporate Banking. He is also regularly engaged by NUS RMI to teach customized risk management courses specially tailored to clients' needs.
Frankie was conferred the IBF Distinguished Fellow Award in Risk Management. The "IBF Distinguished Fellow" is a prestigious title conferred upon industry leaders who are the epitome of professional stature, integrity, and achievement. The Distinguished Fellows serve as a beacon of excellence for the banking industry in Singapore.
Sujit Reddy
Head of Portfolio Management, Asia Pacific
JPMorgan Chase
Sujit Reddy
Head of Portfolio Management, Asia Pacific
JPMorgan Chase
Sujit Reddy is Asia-Pacific Head of Portfolio Management, Credit Portfolio Group (CPG) at JPMorgan based in Singapore. He has been with JPMorgan for over 20 years across various risk management and portfolio management roles in Singapore, HK and India.
Matthew See
Executive Director and Head of Data Chapter, Risk and business Analytics,
DBS
Matthew See
Executive Director and Head of Data Chapter, Risk and business Analytics,
DBS
Matthew is Managing Director and Head of Data Chapter - Risk and Business Analytics at DBS. He leads the team responsible for delivering analytics solutions in risk management across all risk types (including credit risk) to drive business and risk outcomes and impact, and industrialising AI/ML (including the use of Gen AI) in risk analytics at an enterprise-wide level.
Teck Kin Suan
Head of Research, Executive Director
Global Economics and Markets Research
UOB
Teck Kin Suan
Head of Research, Executive Director
Global Economics and Markets Research
UOB
Teck Kin joined UOB as an economist in 2006. In his current role as Executive Director in Global Economics and Markets Research, he is responsible for macroeconomic and foreign exchange research with a primary focus on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and secondary coverage for the ASEAN region. As a member of the Research team, he presents the team’s market views regularly to the Bank’s management team and clients in Singapore and the region.
Teck Kin has more than ten years of experience in macroeconomic and equity research. Fluent in English and Mandarin, Teck Kin is interviewed frequently by local and international print and broadcast media, as well as financial newswires on the economic and market outlook.
Prior to UOB, Teck Kin held various positions in equity and credit analysis in other financial institutions in Singapore, Canada and Taiwan.
Teck Kin graduated with a Master's degree in economics and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.
Puay Tin Teo
Head of Distribution, Credit & Portfolio Management
Standard Chartered
Puay Tin Teo
Head of Distribution, Credit & Portfolio Management
Standard Chartered
Puay Tin joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2005 and is currently Head of Distribution, Credit and Portfolio Management. In this role she has global responsibility for asset and liquidity distribution from the banking book, across Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking. This includes the use of different technologies including securitisation, covered bonds, repos, guarantees, credit linked notes, insurance and outright sales. Puay Tin’s previous roles at Standard Chartered include Head of Central Funding Desk and Business Treasurer. Before joining Standard Chartered, Puay Tin worked at Ministry of Finance Singapore in international relations. Puay Tin has a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University and a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University. She is a Chartered Accountant and is based in Singapore.
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.
Xuan Zhang
Deputy Head of Risk Management Department
Bank of China Limited, Singapore Branch
Xuan Zhang
Deputy Head of Risk Management Department
Bank of China Limited, Singapore Branch
Zhang Xuan was appointed Deputy Head of Risk Management Department since February 2023, overseeing credit due diligence review function of BOCSG.
Mr Zhang has near 15 years of experience in banking industry, specialised in credit financing. Prior to his current role, he was the Head of Credit Due Diligence, EMEA Centre, Bank of China, responsible for credit review of exposures in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Zhang’s previous experience at the bank also includes heading the TMT team of Corporate Banking Department in London Branch and as a risk manager in Credit Approval Department, Head Office.
Mr Zhang holds Master of Arts in Economics from China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing and earned a master’s degree in Finance from London Business School.
Fees
SGD 525
*Prices are subject to 9% GST.
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