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 is a senior XVA Quantitative Analyst at Scotiabank with more than 15 years' experience in leading banks. He has designed industry standard hedging and pricing systems, first as a single asset quant (equity derivative at Commerzbank, credit derivatives at Credit Agricole) then as XVA quant in XVA at Lloyds in Model Validation at RBS in Model Development. Assad has an extensive experience in developing enterprise wide analytics to improve the financial management of derivative portfolios, in particular large scale hybrid Monte-Carlo and Exposure computation. After developing a prototype of XVA platform integrating cutting-edge technologies (GPU, Cloud computing) and numerical methods (AAD) to enable fast and accurate XVA and sensitivities computation, he now participates to its productionisation. He holds a MSc in Mathematical Trading and Finance from CASS business school and a Master in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Université de Technologie de 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.

<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>