
June 15 | Agenda | Credit & Counterparty Risk Europe
08:00 Registration and breakfast
08:50 Chair’s opening remarks
GLOBAL RECOVERY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Managing capital structure and debt post Covid-19
- Changing behaviors of consumers as a result of the pandemic
- Retail shift to online
- Erosion to capital earnings as a result of inflation
- Improvements in vulnerable sectors of the economy with recovery
- Pronounced default risk across sectors of the economy
- Recovering from unprecedented economic shock
- Impacts of future waves on credit availability and regulation
- Managing heightened levels of credit deterioration
- Driving economic growth to counteract reductio in government relief
- Determining risk appetite in post covid environment
Jerome Henry, Principal Advisor, ECB
Maurizio Garro, Senior Lead – IBOR Transition, Lloyds Banking Group
David Harrison, Head of Credit Risk UK, Société Generale
GEOPOLITICAL RISK
Session details
- Continually adapting business models
- Future performance of the UK economy in a post Brexit environment
- Impact on lending business models and transactions across borders
- Impact of Brexit in a a normalized environment
- Reviewing competitiveness of UK companies vs EU counterparts
- Management of Brexit and Covid-19 together
- Managing geopolitical tensions across geographies
- Inclusion of big tech companies within regulation
Gianluca Riccio, Managing Director, Lloyds Banking Group
10:20 Morning refreshment break and networking
REGULATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Managing cyclicality in models
- Data expectations
- Infrastructure limitations in Covid-19 to capture data
- Changes to buy now pay later regulation
- Affordability assessment requirements and complexity
- Validating data without disrupting customer journey
- Technology challenges to verify affordability
- Evolving regulatory environment across Europe and UK
Katherine Wolicki, Global Head of Financial and Model Risk Regulation Policy and Engagement, HSBC
Germar Knochlein, Head of Division, ECB
COUNTERPARTY RISK
Session details
- Repricing future derivatives
- Complexity of Monte Carlo simulation and modeling
- Capturing exposures in data
- Archegos case study
- Monitoring all aspects of the risk profile of firms trading with
- Identification techniques to detect high leveraged funds
- Approaches to deleverage
- Calibrating models to market moves
- Methodologies to accelerate calculations
Chaoxin Zheng, EMEA Head of Scenario Analytics, Morgan Stanley
CVA/XVA
Session details
- Reliance on volatile market data
- Expected loss in the derivatives portfolio
- Actively managing risk through trading activity
- Managing sensitivities to market conditions
- Managing illiquidity
- Reviewing the asymmetry in approach between US and EU regulators
- Viewing the trade-off between complexity and risk sensitivity
- Inclusion of valuation models such as FVA into practices
- Effective management of the CVA book
- Managing risk through trading activity
Pradyumna Javalekar, Head of Credit Portfolio Market Risk, JP Morgan
12:45 Lunch break and networking
ESG – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Updating commercial strategy in line with ESG expectations
- Sustainability and social responsibility of lenders to meet commitments
- Identifying reliable data from a range of sources
- Achieving net zero within financial services and measuring progress
- Enhancing transparency on ESG ratings and measurement approaches
- Benchmarking progress and demonstrating commitment
- New asset classes and movement towards green investments
- Infrastructure investments to key stakeholders
Emmanuel Mathey, Co-CRO, Wealth Management, Schroders
Andreea Petreanu, Head of Credit Risk Management, Mizuho (tbc)
Gregoire Babin, Executive Director, JP Morgan
BC Achary, Executive Director & Deputy Chief Executive Officer, FCMB Bank UK Ltd
ESG CONTINUED
Session details
- Reporting and understanding carbon footprint
- Evolving appetite to lend to certain sectors
- Associated risks with continuing business with less ‘green’ sectors
- Risk of credit bubble as leverage flows to certain sectors
- Managing lending activities in line with consumption and demand
- Reviewing the interplay between climate risk and credit
- Understanding and utilizing trends on impact to credit risk
- Stress test analysis on implications on climate risk
- Reviewing physical and transitional risks based on credit risk
David Glendinning, CRO UK, Société Generale
3:05 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
Session details
- Application of machine learning algorithms to data
- Explainability of machine learning to management and regulators
- Managing the proliferation of AI and machine learning in credit risk modeling
- Uses of alternative and big data
- Best practice examples of successful application in credit and counterparty risk
- Minimizing compute intensive activities
- Adapting model risk frameworks for new technology
- Governance requirements building more efficient credit models
- Cloud and physical data analytics requirements
Peter Quell, Head of Portfolio Analytics for Market and Credit Risk, DZ Bank
LIBOR
Session details
- Lessons learnt from transition away from Libor
- Managing use of SONIA and change to calculations
- Moving towards backwards looking overnight rates
- Reviewing changes in a post-Libor world
- Systems and documentation challenges
Varun Kumar Singh, Head – Corporate Lending, Union Bank of India UK
STRESS TESTING
Session details
- Stress testing overview
- Comparing regulatory stress tests
- overview of the stress testing lifecycle
- PRA case study
- Challenges in stress testing
Rohan Kataria, Head of Traded Risk Stress Testing Execution, HSBC
5:20 Chair’s closing remarks
5:30 End of Summit