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Asia Risk Congress 2021
Asia Risk is delighted to present the annual Asia Risk Congress, Asia's leading risk management, derivatives and regulation event. Attended by 1,000+ delegates, the event will discuss the latest on libor transition, regulatory developments, non-financial risk, and derivatives.
Asia Risk Congress 2021
November 15-19, 2021
2021 expert speakers include:
Satoshi Ikeda
Karla Angelleen Dalisay-Menorca
Jens Toepfer
The countdown has begun for the biggest Asia Risk Congress yet!
Asia Risk Congress | 2021 advisory board
Our expert line-up of advisory board members have informed and endorsed the Asia Risk Congress 2021 agenda. Here are just some of our industry leading advisors:
Eriko Kawano
Chief Manager, Legal Department & Securities Operations Department
Nippon Life Insurance Company
Professional Career :
2010: Joined Nippon Life Insurance Company: Assistant Manager, Legal Department
2015: Vice President, Nippon Life Asia Pacific Reginal H.Q. (Singapore) (Seconded)
2018: Manager, Structured Finance Department
2020: Manager, Legal Department
2021: Chief Manager, Legal Department & Securities Operations Department
Certificate: Attorney at Law (Admitted in Japan, 2009)
Dickenson Africa
Deputy Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Mr. Dickenson Africa is a governance, audit, controls, risk and business continuity management professional with more than 20 years experience in the financial, compliance, operations, and information systems audit and assurance of financial institutions. He has vast experience in assessing the quality and effectiveness of risk management system/process, IT governance and controls, information security, and business continuity management systems. He is currently the Head of the Business Continuity Management Group of the Risk and Compliance Office at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. He also serves as the Director for Knowledge and a member of the Board of Trustees of ISACA Manila Chapter. Mr. Africa occasionally serves as a resource speaker for IT governance, audit, controls, risk management and business continuity management for both government and private entities, including domestic and international organizations. Mr. Africa obtained his professional education on Crisis Management and Business Continuity Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor, Master of Business Administration, Certified Business Continuity Lead Auditor, and a Certified Data Privacy Practitioner.
Andrew Chin
Chief Risk Officer and Head of Quantitative Research
AllianceBernstein
Andrew Y. Chin is the Chief Risk Officer and Head of Quantitative Research for AB. As the Chief Risk Officer, Chin oversees all aspects of risk management to ensure that the risks being taken are well understood and appropriately managed. In the Quantitative Research role, he is responsible for the firm’s data science strategy and for optimizing the quantitative research infrastructure, tools and resources across the firm’s investing platforms. He joined the firm in 1997 and held various quantitative research roles in New York and London. In 2004, Chin became a senior portfolio manager for Style Blend Equities. In 2005, he was named director of Quantitative Research for Value Equities. Prior to joining the firm, Chin was a project manager and business analyst in Global Investment Management at Bankers Trust from 1994 to 1997.
Chin teaches in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (Master of Financial Engineering Program) at Cornell University. He also leads teams of students on capstone projects utilizing quantitative and data science skills to address investment issues.
Chin earned a BA and an MBA from Cornell University.
Karla Angelleen Dalisay-Menorca
Chief Risk Officer
Chang Hwa Commercial Bank
10 years experience in banking, with focus on enterprise risk management, stress testing, and risk-based capital adequacy assessment. Graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Master in Applied Mathematics major in Mathematical Finance from Ateneo de Manila University. Worked several years with HSBC - - both in its Philippine and Hong Kong offices, followed by a few years as Planning and Risk Officer for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation - Manila Branch. Now serving as the Chief Risk Officer of a Taiwanese bank in the Philippines. Currently residing in Metro Manila with husband and son.
Orla Cowan
Chief Risk Officer
ClearView Wealth
ClearView appointed Orla Cowan as Chief Risk Officer in September 2019.
Orla’s experience spans 20 years across notable financial institutions like BlackRock Australia, Challenger Financial Services Group , Zurich Capital Markets and most recently, ANZ Global Wealth, where she spent five years as Head of CIO Governance. At ANZ her responsibilities included the development, implementation and monitoring of the CIO operational risk and compliance plan, and fiduciary reporting to the Board. Prior to ANZ she spent four years at BlackRock as Director – Country Head of Compliance where optimising cross-functional abilities was a key focus. Taken together, her experience ensures a proven track record in risk management, compliance and governance.
Sangeeta Venkatesen
Executive Chairman
FairVine Super
Sangeeta Venkatesan is the co founder and chairman of FairVine Super, an independent and solutions focused superannuation fund, and the co founder of Applegrove Capital, a capital advisory and investment management firm focused on sustainable investment including renewable energy, healthcare and food security with an emphasis on regional Australia She has recently been appointed as the non e xecutive chairman of IBA Novatti, a subsidiary of the ASX listed Novatti Group Ltd.
She also serves as a Board Member and Treasurer of Women in Banking and Finance (Treasurer of Australia India Business Council NSW Advisory Board M ember of JC Happiness Charity Foundation (Hong Kong), in partnership with the Fred Hollows Foundation and Advisory Board Member of Risk Australia.
Having worked in the banking and finance sector for close to 2 5 years, Sangeeta’s experience spans the globe including London, Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong a nd Sydney, at some of the most prominent and globally recognised firms such as KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers/Nomura, and The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (‘Before commencing her journey in entrepreneurship she was the CEO of an Australian stock broking firm where she grew its reven ue by 30% in under 18 months.
Whist at CBA Sangeeta represented the bank at various government led Australia China financial collaboration dialogues and co authored a book titled “The Renminbi from the Peoples’ Money to a
Global Currency” focusing on the evolving Chinese economy and financial liberalisation.
She played a significant role in integrating the erstwhile Lehman Bothers’ business into Nomura and represented the firm at ISDA Credit Derivatives Committee and AFME Credit Board.
She is a highly sought after speaker and thought leader across the banking and finance sector covering a variety of topics including fintech, sustainability and equality and diversity.
Sangeeta won the Innovator of the Year award at Money Management and Super Review’s Women in Financial Services Awards 2019 and was featured in the CEO Magazine for her contribution to women in business.
Henrik Andersson
Chief Investment Officer
Apollo Capital
Henrik is the co-founder and CIO of Apollo Capital, Australia’s premier crypto fund. Henrik has over 17 years of experience in global financial markets, with almost a decade on Wall Street. Henrik has extensive experience across three continents as a quantitative analyst, senior research analyst and in institutional equity sales. Henrik holds a Master of Science in engineering physics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and a Master of Science in business administration and economics from Stockholm University. He is a CFA charterholder.
Jessica Bartlett
Global Head of Financial Crime Legal
Barclays
Jessica Bartlett is the Director of Financial Crime Legal – APAC at Barclays and is based in Hong Kong. Jessica advises compliance and legal teams, business lines and senior management across the APAC region on financial crime issues including economic sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering, fraud, and anti-corruption.
Jessica relocated from New York to Hong Kong in 2015. Before joining Barclays in 2018, Jessica was an associate with Shearman & Sterling LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Jessica clerked for the Honorable Sidney H. Stein, District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Jessica holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois, Master of Arts in Philosophy from Brandeis University, and two Bachelors of Arts degrees in Art History and Political Science from Southern Methodist University. Jessica is Chairman of the Board of Governors for the American Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong.
Mohammad Azam
Group Chief Risk Officer
SME Bank
Mohammad Azam Ahmad carries with him more than 25 years of experience in the Banking industry including 15 years of experience in risk management spanning from credit, market, liquidity and operational risk
Prior to joining SME Bank, Azam was the Head of Risk Management, Group Global Banking in Maybank since 2012 and previously served reputable organizations such as Standard Chartered and Central Bank of Malaysia.
He holds a Master of Economics and International Finance from University of Queensland and Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from London School of Economics, United Kingdom.
Azam joined SME Bank on 1 August 2019 to assume the position of Group Chief Risk Officer.
Antoine Delterme
Chief Risk Officer
UBS Australia and New Zealand
Antoine is the Head of Market Risk for UBS Australia and New Zealand since 2016 and was appointed Chief Risk Officer in 2019.
Prior to joining UBS, Antoine held numerous senior risk and trader roles across the APAC region, specializing in equity derivatives trading.
Antoine has over 20 years of risk and trading management experience in the financial services industry in Asia-Pacific markets.
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2021 partners
Numerix is the leading provider of innovative capital markets technology applications and real-time intelligence capabilities for trading and risk management. Committed to out-of-the box thinking, the exploration and adoption of latest technologies, Numerix is dedicated to driving a more open, fintech oriented, digital financial services market. Built upon a 20+ year analytical foundation of deep practical knowledge, experience and IT understanding, Numerix is uniquely positioned in the financial services ecosystem to help its users reimagine operations, modernize business processes and capture profitability. www.numerix.com
Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 40 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves approximately 2,500 clients in more than 65 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $780 billion in notional value traded per day over the past four fiscal quarters.
About Moody's Analytics
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. Our deep risk expertise, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology help our clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. We are known for our industry-leading and award-winning solutions, made up of research, data, software, and professional services, assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience. We create confidence in thousands of organizations worldwide, with our commitment to excellence, open mindset approach, and focus on meeting customer needs. For more information about Moody’s Analytics, visit our website or connect with us on Twitter or LinkedIn.
Moody's Analytics, Inc. is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO). Moody’s Corporation reported revenue of $5.4 billion in 2020, employs approximately 11,500 people worldwide and maintains a presence in more than 40 countries.
About OneTrust
OneTrust is the category-defining enterprise platform to operationalize trust. More than 10,000 customers, including half of the Fortune Global 500, use OneTrust to make trust a competitive differentiator, implementing central agile workflows across privacy, security, data governance, GRC, third-party risk, ethics and compliance, and ESG programs.
The OneTrust platform is backed by 150 patents and powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine. Our offerings include OneTrust Privacy Management Software, OneTrust DataDiscovery™ AI-powered discovery and classification, OneTrust DataGovernance™ data intelligence software, OneTrust Vendorpedia™ third-party risk exchange, OneTrust GRC integrated risk management, OneTrust Ethics ethics and compliance software, OneTrust PreferenceChoice™ consent and preference management, OneTrust ESG environmental, social and governance software, and OneTrust DataGuidance™ regulatory research.
In 2020, OneTrust was named the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 500 with a 48,000% three-year growth rate. According to the IDC Worldwide Data Privacy Management Software Market Shares Report, 2020, “OneTrust is leading the market outright and showing no signs of slowing down or stopping.”
OneTrust has raised a total of $920 million in funding at a $5.3 billion valuation from Insight Partners, Coatue, TCV, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Franklin Templeton.
OneTrust’s fast-growing team of 2,000 employees is co-headquartered in Atlanta and London with additional offices in Bangalore, Melbourne, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, São Paulo, Munich, Paris, Hong Kong, and Bangkok.
To learn more, visit OneTrust.com or connect on LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
Calypso Technology and AxiomSL have combined forces under a new name: Adenza.
With headquarters in London and New York, Adenza has more than 60,000 users across the world’s largest financial institutions spanning global and regional banks, broker dealers, insurers, asset managers, pension funds, hedge funds, central banks, stock exchanges and clearing houses, securities services providers and corporates.
Visit www.adenza.com to find out more.
RSA offers business-driven security solutions that provide organizations with a unified approach to managing digital risk that hinges on integrated visibility, automated insights and coordinated actions. RSA solutions are designed to effectively detect and respond to advanced attacks; manage user access control; and reduce business risk, fraud and cybercrime. RSA protects millions of users around the world and helps more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies thrive and continuously adapt to transformational change. For more information, go to rsa.com.
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Risk never sleeps. And risk management has never been more crucial than it is in today’s complex, interconnected markets. Market risk, counterparty risk, liquidity or operational risk, and portfolio risk management; whether on the buy side or sell side, firms need a comprehensive solution with broad asset class coverage.
Bloomberg enables you to gauge end-of-day and intraday risk levels with precision. Our unrivaled data and analytics confer an edge, and our best-in-class Bloomberg service ensures seamless integration into your firm’s workflows.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
Galvanize builds award-winning, cloud-based security, risk management, compliance, and audit software to drive change in some of the world’s largest organizations. We are on a mission to unite and strengthen individuals and entire organizations through the integrated HighBond software platform. With more than 6,300 customer organizations in 130 countries, Galvanize is connecting teams in many of the Fortune 1,000 and S&P 500 companies, and hundreds of government organizations, banks, manufacturers, and healthcare organizations. Whether these professionals are managing threats, assessing risk, measuring controls, monitoring compliance, or expanding assurance coverage, HighBond automates manual tasks, blends organization-wide data, and broadcasts it in easy-to-share dashboards and reports. But we don’t just make technology—we provide tools that inspire individuals to achieve great things and do heroic work in the process. Visit wegalvanize.com to learn more. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, or see what we are up to on.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is one of the world’s major exchange groups. Headquartered in Hong Kong, with offices in Mainland China, Singapore and London, HKEX operates a range of equity, commodity, fixed income and currency markets. As Hong Kong’s only securities and derivatives exchange, the sole operator of the city’s clearing houses, HKEX is uniquely placed to offer regional and international investors access to Asia’s most vibrant markets. HKEX is also one of the world’s premier initial public offering (IPO) centres, offering companies unrivalled opportunities to access growth capital through a Hong Kong listing.
HKEX is also the leader in the trading of industry metals through its wholly owned subsidiaries, London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear. This commodity franchise was further enhanced with the launch of Qianhai Mercantile Exchange, or QME, a new commodities trading venue in Mainland China, in 2018.
HKEX launched the ground-breaking Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme in 2014, allowing international investors direct access to Mainland China’s stock market for the first time. The scheme was expanded with the launch of Shenzhen Connect in 2016, and the launch of Bond Connect in 2017.
With nearly 2,000 employees around the world, HKEX is committed to the provision of strong, stable and innovative markets, ongoing product and market innovation and to connecting investors and companies around the world.
LCH builds strong relationships with credit, equity, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX) and rates market participants to help drive superior performance and deliver best-in-class risk management. With our accumulated experience and expertise, we are uniquely positioned to help members and clients increase capital and operational efficiency, while adhering to an expanding and complex set of cross-border regulations. Working closely with our stakeholders, we have helped the market transition to central clearing and introduced an array of innovative enhancements, including compression; sponsored clearing; credit index options clearing; contracts for differences clearing; LCH Spider, our portfolio margining tool; and LCH SwapAgent for managing uncleared swaps. When these innovations are combined with an uncompromising commitment to service delivery, it's no surprise that LCH, an LSEG business, is the natural choice of the world’s leading market participants.
Leveraging the power of AI, MetricStream is the global market leader in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and Integrated Risk Management solutions, providing the most comprehensive solutions for Enterprise and Operational Risk, Regulatory Compliance, Internal Audit, IT and Cyber Risk and Third-Party Risk Management on one single integrated platform.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision suppor t tools and services for the global inv estment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process. To learn more, please visit www.msci.com.
Qontigo is an investment intelligence driver, OPTIMIZING IMPACTTM with it client partners. The combination of the world-class indices and best-of-breed analytics, underpinned by technological expertise and customer-driven innovation, enables its clients to achieve competitive advantage in a rapidly changing marketplace. Qontigo’s global client base includes the world’s largest financial products issuers, capital owners and asset managers. Created in 2019 through the combination of Axioma, DAX and STOXX, Qontigo is part of Deutsche Börse Group, headquartered in Eschborn with key locations in New York, Zug and London.
Societe Generale Societe Generale is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth. Committed to the positive transformations of the world’s societies and economies, Societe Generale and its teams seek to build, day after day, together with its clients, a better and sustainable future through responsible and innovative financial solutions. Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, Societe Generale has over 138,000 members of staff in 62 countries and supports on a daily basis 29 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions. The Group is built on three complementary core businesses:
▪ French Retail Banking which encompasses the Societe Generale, Crédit du Nord and Boursorama brands. Each offers a full range of financial services with omnichannel products at the cutting edge of digital innovation;
▪ International Retail Banking, Insurance and Financial Services to Corporates, with networks in Africa, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and specialised businesses that are leaders in their markets;
▪ Global Banking and Investor Solutions, which offers recognised expertise, key international locations and integrated solutions. Societe Generale is included in the principal socially responsible investment indices: DJSI (World and Europe), FTSE4Good (Global and Europe), Euronext Vigeo (World, Europe and Eurozone), four of the STOXX ESG Leaders indices, and the MSCI Low Carbon Leaders Index.
For more information, you can follow us on Twitter @societegenerale or visit our website www.societegenerale.com.
At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.
S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.
IHS Markit (www.ihsmarkit.com)
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. The company delivers next-generation information, analytics and compliance and regulatory solutions to customers in business, finance and government, improving their operational efficiency and providing deep insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions. IHS Markit has more than 50,000 key business and government customers, including 85 percent of the Fortune Global 500 and the world’s leading financial institutions. Headquartered in London, IHS Markit is committed to sustainable, profitable growth.
Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted securities and derivatives market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets to the highest regulatory standards. It also operates a multi-asset sustainability platform, SGX FIRST or Future in Reshaping Sustainability Together (sgx.com/first).
SGX is committed to facilitating economic growth in a sustainable manner leveraging its roles as a key player in the ecosystem, a business, regulator and listed company. With climate action as a key priority, SGX aims to be a leading sustainable and transition financing and trading hub offering trusted, quality, end-to-end products and solutions.
As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, SGX provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore. SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities. For more information, please visit www.sgx.com.
ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making over fast-moving data. Our unique value comes into play in time-sensitive and data-intensive business processes that require operational, corrective or predictive decision making in order to better steer the business
We offer business users a single operational decision-making environment that helps continuously evaluate performance goals, instantly detect and analyze deviations, simulate the impact of scenarios and take relevant action - all in real time. Some of ActivePivot's key features are:
- In-memory aggregation delivers fast responses on complex, large data queries.
- Mixed workload DBMS supports transactional and analytical queries within the same environment.
- Real-time alerts enable the detection of outliers and exploration of their cause at any point in the past.
- Multi-dimensional queries provide the flexibility to explore data across as many dimensions as needed.
ActiveViam operates from offices in New York, Paris, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.
About SS&C Algorithmics
SS&C Algorithmics is a leading provider of risk solutions. Financial organizations from around the world use Algorithmics' software to help them make risk-aware business decisions. Our analytics and advisory services assist firms in taking steps towards maximizing shareholder value and meeting regulatory requirements. Supported by a global team of risk experts based in all major financial centres, Algorithmics offers award-winning solutions for market, credit and treasury risk, trading portfolio management, and capital management.
Founded in 1989, Algorithmics is committed to helping its clients view and manage risk as a core business value. This intelligent risk taking, supported by our software and services, offers firms numerous competitive advantages including increased returns, lower capital requirements, and improved brand reputation. Algorithmics’ client base has grown to include global banks, asset management firms, insurance companies, pension funds, central banks, exchanges, regulators, corporations, utilities, and brokerage firms.
For more information visit us here.