Christopher Blake, Head of Treasury, Unity Trust Bank & Education Director at ALMA UK.

Chris is Head of Treasury at Unity Trust Bank. Previously, Chris worked for HSBC for 12 years in various roles including Global Treasury, where he was Group Head of Liquidity Framework, Policy and Governance. Prior to that he was a risk specialist in ALM for the FSA, leading on the setting of Individual Liquidity Guidance for regulated firms and the implementation of FSA liquidity rules. He has also worked as a Money Market and Interest Rate Derivatives trader for Investec, alongside experience in Retail banking in London, Private banking in Switzerland and Off-Balance Sheet vehicles. Chris has a BSc in Economics and Government from the London School of Economics. He is the Education Director of the UK Asset and Liability Management Association and is the author of the Liquidity and Funding Unit of ALMA’s CertBALM®.

Anselmo Marmonti, Vice President – Banking Risk, Fraud & Compliance, SAS

Anselmo Marmonti is Vice President for Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions, leading globally the Initiatives, GTM strategy and Practice for Financial Services.

Helping Financial Institutions and Supervisors improving the efficiency of their processes in Risk, Fraud & Compliance departments through advanced solutions. Focused on business needs and regulatory requirements, leading the innovation through advanced analytics. Extensive expertise across the areas of Risk, Fraud and Compliance, gained at international level cooperating with International Financial Groups. Previously, he led the Risk & Finance practice globally with a focus on transformational projects in Risk and Finance areas to optimize Credit Processes, Risk Models lifecycle, IFRS 9, IFRS 17, Asset Liability Management, Integrated Balance Sheet Management, Stress Testing and Planning in Banks and Insurances. Anselmo holds a degree in Economics of Financial Institutions and Markets from Bocconi University in Milan. After graduating he was acknowledged by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) as a certified professional operating in the financial risk management area. He’s board member of the Master in Credit Risk Management from Catholic University in Milan, and he is coauthor of Retail Credit Risk Management book. He has been working as a Risk expert at SAS since 2001 thus acting as a consultant within credit, market and operational risk areas for leading international banks, insurance groups and supervisors. He was then appointed as Leader of the South Emea Risk Solutions Practice used for compliance with Basel 2 and 3 as well as Solvency II and BCBS 239 regulations.

Martim Rocha, Global Director – Risk, SAS

Martim Rocha is the Global Head of the Risk Banking Solutions, as such he manages a team of global experts on banking risk management, defining roadmaps and priorities for SAS solutions and supporting customers all over the world on their journey to take the best of the SAS solutions, from scoping and defining the best approach for each business case to helping customers taking the SAS solutions through implementation to be live as a production system.

Martim has published several papers and has spoken at several conferences around the world on the topics of Risk Management in Banking, Risk and Finance Integration, IFRS9/CECL, Regulatory Risk Management, ALM, Capital Planning , Scenario Based Analysis and Stress-testing. With SAS for more then 17 years, he played the role of Strategic Advisor and Solution Designer on projects such as Stress-testing on a G-Sib based in London; IFRS9 and Stress-testing at G-SIB bank covering more than 60 locations worldwide; IFRS9 impairment at a couple of Top 5 Nordic Bank covering 5 countries; IFRS9 full-scope at Top banks in UAE; and IFRS9 impairment at more than a Top 5 South African Bank.

Martim has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry on the topics of risk management, business analytics and data management. He has designed and managed projects for banks, insurance firms and other financial services companies in areas such as financial management, risk management, predictive analytics, financial and sales performance, strategy management, and customer analysis and segmentation. In addition, he was a lecturer for courses on advanced decision support systems, data warehousing and data mining at the Autonomous University of Lisbon and at the ISCTE Business School. Before joining SAS, Martim was a partner on the Business Analytics focused consulting firm, Noscitare where he led the delivery of many IT projects in financial services companies. Martim has a post-graduate degree in Business Administration from Nova SBE and has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from ISIG.

Raymond Zhu, Financial Resource Management practice, Deloitte UK

Raymond leads the Financial Resource Management practice at Deloitte UK Consulting, where he oversees a team of 27 seasoned management consultants. His team is recognised for their expertise in shaping and executing significant financial resource management initiatives for Tier 1 banks globally, with a primary objective of ensuring disciplined and consistent delivery of shareholder returns. These initiatives encompass financial resourcing strategy, pricing, operations, and risk and regulations, all rooted in a thorough understanding of the intricacies within the banking sector and supported by state-of-the-art analytical methodologies and tools.