Tenth Annual Risk Management Conference: Pre-Conference Workshop
Date:
25 July 2016
Venue: Conrad Centennial Singapore
Jointly organized by IACPM and RMI
Tenth Annual Risk Management Conference: Pre-Conference 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 Banks
Marcia Banks
Deputy Director
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 95 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.
Mark Houghton
Mark Houghton
Regional Manager - Asia Pacific
XL Caitlin
Mark 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.
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Craig Roberts
Director, Portfolio Management
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.
He has a Masters in Knowledge Engineering, as well as a Masters in Financial Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Jeffery Bohn
Jeffery Bohn
Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Analytics & Valuation
State Street Bank
Jeffery Bohn is the Senior Vice President, Head of Portfolio Analytics & Valuation at State Street Bank. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Bohn established the Portfolio Analytics and Valuation Department within State Street Global Markets Japan in Tokyo. He previously ran the Risk and Regulatory Financial Services consulting practice at PWC Japan. Prior to PwC, he co-founded Soliton Financial Analytics in Hong Kong and Soliton Japan in Tokyo. Before moving to Asia, he led Moody’s KMV’s Global Research group and Credit Strategies group. Dr. Bohn has published widely in the area of credit risk. He co-authored with Roger Stein Active Credit Portfolio Management in Practice (Wiley, 2009). Dr. Bohn is an affiliated researcher at U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Risk Management Research.
Matthieu Le Bret
Matthieu Le Bret
Senior Vice President, Structured Credit Distribution - Asia
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Matthieu joined SMBC's Structured Credit Distribution group in 2014 in Singapore. He is in charge of promoting and executing asset recycling market exits covering a broad spectrum of formats: credit insurance, securitisation, repackagings and outright sales. Prior to joining SMBC Matthieu was part of Deutsche Bank Singapore's Finance Transaction Group where he focused on profitability, regulatory, valuation and accounting aspects of structured transactions. Before settling in Singapore, Matthieu headed SGCIB's Structured Finance Market Solutions in Europe, where he executed numerous asset recycling transactions across most parts of the bank's loan book. Matthieu has a Masters degree from ESCP Europe and holds the FRM and CAIA designations.
Andrew Rothery
Andrew Rothery
Independent Trade Credit Insurance/Distribution Professional
Andrew Rothery is a Senior Credit Risk Distribution professional with extensive expertise and experience managing teams distributing credit risk to derive balance sheet and capital management benefits. He was Global Head of Standard Chartered Bank’s, Trade Programmes and Credit Insurance distribution platform for 2 years. His team was focused on raising the return on underlying Trade assets by executing Basel III capital complaint Credit Insurance Policies and Risk Participation programmes.
Prior to this, Andrew was Deutsche Bank’s Asia Pacific Regional Head of Loan Exposure Management Group for 8 years. The team’s mandate was to price and actively risk manage the Bank’s loan portfolio to the credit default swap market. Between 1994 – 2005, Andrew held Credit Risk Management roles at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust in Hong Kong.
Philip Fernandez
Philip Fernandez
Corporate Treasurer
DBS
Philip Fernandez is Corporate Treasurer for DBS Group, responsible globally for the firm’s balance sheet strategy, capital management, wholesale funding and structural FX. He was appointed to this role in April 2009 and oversees teams in Singapore, DBS’ five major markets and the rest of the world.
Philip is a standing invitee to the group management committee and a member of the group committees for asset-liability management (ALCO), structural FX & interest rates and market & liquidity risk committee.
Philip started his career with DBS in 1991 and worked in corporate planning and risk management till 2002. He was subsequently risk controller for credit and interest rates at an investment bank in London. Philip rejoined DBS in Singapore as co-head of Group Market Risk in 2004 prior to taking on his current role.
Philip holds an M.A. in Engineering and Management from University of Cambridge. He studied under a DBS scholarship and graduated with second class upper honors in 1991. Philip was also was an adjunct associate professor at the Singapore Management University for six years till December 2013 where he lectured in quantitative finance. He was named Treasurer of the Year at The Asset Asian Awards 2015.
Outside work, Philip is currently a member of the HomeTeam-NS Board of Governors and a past vice-president of the Singapore Chess Federation Exco.
Frankie Phua
Frankie Phua
Managing Director and Head of Credit & Country Risk Management
United Overseas Bank (UOB)
Frankie Phua is the Managing Director and the Head of the Credit & Country Risk Management Division in UOB. His responsibilities include credit policy, credit research, counterparty credit risk management, credit modeling, economic capital, credit portfolio management, country risk management and stress testing. Frankie is a member of UOB Group Rating Committee, the Anti-Money Laundering Committee, the Capital Working Group and the Data Governance Working Group.
Outside the Bank, Frankie is active in the risk management community. He is currently the Chairman and a Director of the Board of the Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association ("RMA") in US. He is also a member of the Financial Industry Competency Standards ("FICS") working group in Singapore.
Frankie has conducted credit risk trainings for banks in Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Vietnam and Taiwan. He is also a regular speakers in conferences on Basel II. He is appointed by Risk Management Institute (RMI), National University of Singapore ("NUS") to teach the Specialist Diploma in Risk Management. He also teaches credit risk course 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.
Lee Garvey
Lee Garvey
Vice President, Head of Lenders Solutions Group - Asia
Marsh
Lee is the Asia head of Marsh’s Lenders Solutions Group. He is experienced in providing Financial Institution clients with specialist knowledge on the structuring, syndication and placement of country risk and regulatory compliant trade credit and structured credit insurance solutions on a local, regional, and global basis.
He has 9 years’ experience in the industry and previously worked for other leading brokers. He previously worked at Aon in the Political Risk team for 5 years after completing the Aon Graduate Programme in 2006 and also 1.5 years at Willis. He’s been in Singapore for 2 and half years and before that was previously based in London.
Ashish Rajadhyax
Ashish Rajadhyax
Managing Director and Head, Client Management Unit Portfolio Management
Standard Chartered Bank
Ashish heads the Client Management Unit within Portfolio Management, which delivers insightful analytics to support the business in understanding key portfolio and performance trends, creating transparency and accountability on capital allocation decisions and driving client returns and relationship depth. The team creates and drives global client/portfolio initiatives focused on balance sheet optimisation.
Ashish is an experienced finance professional with over 19 years of experience across multiple roles including in Sales, Credit analysis, COO functions in Risk, Corporate Finance & Coverage and Portfolio Management. He has also been actively involved in developing technology platforms for credit approval and sales management within Standard Chartered Bank.
Fees
SGD 800
We are pleased to offer the following special rates and discount:
- Early bird special rate of SGD 630 (by 30 June)
- Academic rate of SGD 590
- 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