Model Risk Australia
Model Risk Australia
Your Trainers
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Steven Claxton
Head of treasury & risk vertical Asia-pacific
FIS
Steven has a 20+ years accomplished Banking (risk management, valuations, and regulation) career across Asia Pacific and the United Arab Emirates.
His responsibility at FIS is leading Treasury and Risk (Market Specialist) in Asia Pacific, which sees him working directly with Banking clients to adapt FIS’ solutions to their strategic priorities.
Steven has worked for systemically important banks such as Standard Chartered Bank and as consultant with KPMG. His experience stretches across value propositions such as capital measurement & planning (ICAAP, Enterprise-Wide Stress Testing), prudential regulation (Basel III, Recovery & Resolution Planning), and behavioural modelling (credit (IFRS9), counterparty credit (xVA), operational, balance sheet (IRRBB) & liquidity).
Steven currently sits on the International Actuarial Association’s (IAA’s) Artificial Intelligence Task Force (AITF), where he is leading a work stream on how AI is changing the Actuaries role across the financial sector.
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Stephen Edney
head of market risk quantitative support
National Australia Bank
Stephen is the Head of the Markets Risk Quantitative Support team at NAB since 2015, looking after model validation of derivative models across traded and non-traded markets. Over the previous 15 years Stephen has held roles in NAB in London, CBA and St George Bank, across model validation and model development for traded and non-traded markets. Stephen has also worked with ISDA as part of regulatory engagement with the Basel Committee on the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book reforms. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Sydney.
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David Maher
associate director, market risk
National Australia Bank
David is currently the Market Risk Oversight lead for Fixed Income and Interest Rate Derivatives. Prior to this he worked for 10 years as a quantitative analyst in model validation and development. This also included 4 years on NAB’s trading floor in London. More recently, he has been implementing Machine Learning in the market risk space, including applications to FRTB.
David holds a PhD in Pure Mathematics from UNSW, and a BSc from Macquarie University, Sydney.
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Song Ling Ooi
senior manager – pricing & modelling
AMP
Song leads the Pricing & Modelling team within the Chief Investment Officer function of the Australian Wealth Management business unit in AMP. She is the Senior Manager responsible for the development of the pricing methodology and pricing recommendations for product developments – in particular for the North Guarantee.
Song is also responsible for overseeing the development and assurance of complex models that support both hedging and pricing activities. Having prior data and modelling experience in business areas including Customer Analytics, Hedging Strategy and Operations, Song understands that a strong risk culture and risk management framework is essential for teams to be able to safely operate in a fast-moving environment that allows for innovation at the same time.
Song is currently leading the education of the Model Risk Management concepts across the CIO function. Her goal is to encourage everyone to embrace the importance of working within the risk management framework and motivating everyone to engage, practice and get better at managing model risks.
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Timo Reinemer
director
Deloitte
Timo is a Director in the Treasury and Capital Markets team at Deloitte Australia. He has 8 years’ experience in providing advisory and assurance services to financial institutions around the globe. During various projects along the three lines of defence he has gained extensive experience in a wide range of quantitative fields including modelling of market risk and counterparty credit risk. He also has developed expertise in qualitative areas such as risk management processes. He focusses on model implementation, development, validation and governance in the Markets business.
Model Risk Australia 2019
Day 1 - Tuesday 13 August 2019
08:30 |
Registration and Refreshments |
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09:00 |
Model Risk Management & Governance
Timo Reinemer, director, Deloitte |
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10:30 |
Morning Break |
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11:00 |
How to Build a Model Risk Management Framework
Stephen Edney, head of market risk quantitative support, National Australia Bank |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 |
Model Validation & Performance Analysis
Song Ling Ooi, senior manager – pricing & modelling, AMP |
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15:00 |
Afternoon Break |
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15:30 |
Pricing Models & Prudent Valuation
Stephen Edney, head of market risk quantitative support, National Australia Bank |
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17:00 |
End of Day One |
Day 2 - Wednesday 14 August 2019
08:30 |
Refreshments |
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09:00 |
Model Risk Management of Non-pricing Models
Steven Claxton, senior analytical consultant, SAS |
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10:30 |
Morning Break |
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11:00 |
Model Validation for IFRS9
Steven Claxton, senior analytical consultant, SAS |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30 |
Machine Learning for Market Risk – Part 1
David Maher, associate director, market risk, National Australia Bank |
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15:00 |
Afternoon Break |
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15:30 |
Machine Learning for Market Risk – Part 2
David Maher, associate director, market risk, National Australia Bank |
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17:00 |
End of Training Course |