Course Agenda

Othmane Islah is currently the Head of Quantitative Research at Quantuply and a senior consultant for Traded Risk Models at Natwest Markets. He was previously a consultant for XVA at Lloyds Banking Group. Before that, he was the Head of Model Validation and Market Risk at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Dmitry Ilchenko manages Funding and Liquidity in ING’s Financial Markets team. He oversees the Bank’s Derivative Funding Framework and looks after collateral funding costs optimisation. His sphere of interests includes optimising FVA, KVA and MVA, managing FVA reserve, dealing with complex collateralised cases and, recently, implementing the MVA concept for both SIMM and CCP models.

Prior to his position at ING, he worked at Deutsche Bank, first as Market Risk Manager covering European Rates and further in CVA desk where he managed the Bank’s CVA and RWA positions.

Assad Bouayoun has over 15 years of quantitative analysis experience in investment banking. He is a quantitative finance specialist focusing on total valuation including funding and capital cost, XVA, risk, stress and reverse stress testing.

He was responsible for designing industry standard hedging and pricing systems in equity derivatives during his time in Commerzbank, and had the same responsibility in credit derivatives while working for Credit Agricole, and also in xVA in institutions like Lloyds, RBS and Scotiabank. He lead the modelling team responsible for the research and development of the simulation engines used for exposure computation within HSBC in London. Now he is XVA and Credit Derivative quantitative analyst at Daiwa Capital Market..
During the different projects Assad has undertaken in quantitative finance, he integrated new technologies such as Cloud, GPU and QPU; new design (parallelization using graphs) as well as new numerical methods such as AAD. He also participated to the firmwide data standardization and integration that are essential aspects of the success of these projects. He is also leading an effort to leverage quantum annealing for financial quantitative reverse stress testing.

He holds a MSc in Mathematical Trading and Finance from Cass Business School and an MSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from UTC (University of Technology of Compiegne, France).  

Irina Ursachi is an independent Risk Management consultant. She has over eight years of experience in the banking industry, managing international projects in various European jurisdictions such as UK, France, and Germany. Her expertise covers the design and specification of business processes as well as the implementation of regulatory requirements, trading systems, and valuation models. Mrs. Ursachi is an active contributor to research projects and publications in the area of Risk Management. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, she has worked for the consulting companies d-fine and KPMG. She holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern.

Andrew Green is a Managing Director and lead XVA Quant at Scotiabank in London. He is the author of XVA: Credit, Funding and Capital Valuation Adjustments which is published by Wiley, co-editor of Landmarks in XVA which is published by Risk Books and co-author of a number of technical articles on XVA in recent years.

<p>Ali is currently a Director in the Financial Resource Management group at TD Securities. The group is responsible for measurement and management of xVAs including capital management for TD Securities, where he is also a member of the Global Credit Trading group. Before this position, he was responsible for model development of TD Securities risk model (Counterparty Credit Risk, Market Risk and Stress Testing). Prior to that role, he was at Scotiabank, Oliver Wyman, and Harvard University. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics.</p>