The 27th RegTech Convention once again offered high-ranking speakers and panelists from central banks, supervisory authorities, banks and insurers as well as numerous industry experts.
Nikolay Arnaudov is a Senior Policy Officer at the Market and Data Department at ESMA. He is working for ESMA since January 2013 where he has been fully dedicated to trade repositories in all the different aspects such as policy work, registration and supervision, as well as supervisory convergence. He led ESMA’s work on Level 2 measures under SFTR and is currently coordinating the ESMA’s Repositories Task Force.
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is currently the Chairman of Société Générale. He is also a CEPR Distinguished Fellow and a Senior Fellow at LUISS School of European Political Economy in Rome. He is Chairman of the Board of the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato. He is the Honorary President of the Italian Alumni of the University of Chicago. From June 2005 to December 2011 he was a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.
Virginie Blaise joined Clearstream Banking Luxembourg (classified as O-SIIs) in 2016 as Head of Regulatory Reporting. In this position, she is mainly responsible for the timely and accuracy manner of all Supervisory and Statistical reporting due to local authorities and as well as the Pillar 3 Disclosure.
Adrian joined ISLA in January 2019 and is Head of Regulation & Market Practice. In this role, his focus is on all regulatory matters that impact Securities Lending and the technical processes that support and underpin that market. He has over 30 years of experience in financial services including roles in product development, business analysis, trading, operations and IT development. Prior to joining ISLA, Adrian headed up product development and relationship management of the SFTR product at IHS Markit.
Pursuant to the decision of the Croatian Parliament, Martina Drvar assumed office as Vicegovernor of the Croatian National Bank on 18 July 2018. She coordinates and manages the Prudential Regulation and Supervision Area. In October 2019 she has been appointed a member of the European Banking Authority Management Board.
Slavka Eley is the Head of Unit Banking Markets, Innovation and Products since 1 March 2018, where she leads the EBA work on innovation and digital finance, market access and capital market union. She also leads the EBA work on sustainable finance and participates on the work of the Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.
Dr. Jennifer Hauschild is Managing Consultant at d-fine GmbH, specialising in digitalisation and capital markets regulation. Having worked with clients across different countries and industries, as well as various trade repositories, reporting software providers and trade associations, Jennifer has gained in-depth insight into the challenges faced by market participants and regulators alike. She is passionate about helping to achieve market transparency and stability while minimising the operational burden on reporting entities.
Jean-Claude Juncker is one of the founding fathers of the euro and a pioneer of European unification. As Prime Minister of Luxembourg he was the longest-serving head of government in the European Union - with 18 years in office - as well as the longest-serving democratically elected head of government worldwide.
Jean Kizito is an Associate Partner in the financial services tax department of KPMG Luxembourg. During the past decade, he built experience in the financial sector and provided ongoing tax advice to financial groups. He specializes in corporate and operational taxes in the investment fund and banking sector.
Seb Malik is a thought-provoking author of a number of bestselling books and academic papers on EU financial regulation and has a reputation for leading the industry in obtaining groundbreaking information and providing unique insights - such as his interaction with the UK Treasury leading to their statement confirming NFCs would not report in UK SFTR. Seb's clients include National Banks, National Regulators as well as a rich mix of clearing houses, investment banks and funds.
Marja Nykänen has been a Member of the Board of the Bank of Finland since 2017. Her areas of responsibilities include financial market issues, macroprudential policy and the risk control of investment activities and monetary policy. Marja Nykänen is the Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority.
Dr. Christian Ossig is Chief Executive and Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of German Banks and a former investment banker. He is, among other mandates, chairman of the Executive Committee of the European Banking Federation (EBF), a member of the Administrative Council and Advisory Board of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and a member of the board of the International Banking Federation (IBFed).
Fernando joined Adyen in January 2019 and is currently the Head of Reporting and Forecasting. In this position, the main challenge is translating regulatory requirements to a fast growth fintech environment, which is constantly changing. He has over 10 years of experience in financial services industry, having worked for Big four firm’s and banks, mainly in roles entailing financial and regulatory reporting, controlling and forecasting activities.
Falk Rieker is responsible for the Banking solution strategy and solution management teams at SAP. He is part of SAP’s Global Leadership Team for Financial Services. His responsibilities include the definition of the solution portfolio and go-to-market strategy, roll-in and roll-out of new solutions and releases, co-innovation with software partners to complement the solution portfolio, pre and post sales support of customer projects, support of press, analyst and marketing events.
Since October 2019, Michael Schrödter is Manager for Regulatory Reporting Change at Lloyds Bank GmbH. In this position he is responsible for all professional, technical and procedural development of the Regulatory Reporting and he is also main contact person for all regulatory changes and change-relevant reporting issues.
Gediminas Šimkus is Member of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania. Gediminas Šimkus joined the Bank of Lithuania in 2002, and over the 18 years of his work at the institution consistently furthered his career, working in areas of financial stability, economic analysis and forecasting, statistics, banking supervision.
Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001 and named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2011. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Co-Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia.
Olaf Storbeck is Frankfurt Correspondent for the Financial Times. He is former Germany Columnist with Reuters Breakingviews and the former International Economics Correspondent for Handelsblatt, Germany’s business daily. He is part of the Financial Times team that won the 2020 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism of the New York Financial Writers’ Association for their Wirecard coverage.
Annette Weisbach is a Frankfurt-based international journalists with more than 15 years’ experience in business news with CNBC and Bloomberg News. She is interviewing decision makers such as ECB President Christine Lagarde, the C-Suite of German DAX companies and leading politicians on a regular basis.
Tom is in charge of product strategy for LSEG’s UnaVista post-trade regulatory services, including MiFIR ARM and EMIR TR. Tom’s responsibilities include guiding the direction of UnaVista’s solutions and keeping LSEG post trade offerings at the forefront of regulatory, market and technology developments. Prior to joining LSEG, Tom headed financial services solutions at NexJ, led workforce planning and business intelligence products at Workbrain Inc., and worked in Product Management and Business Development at Siebel Systems. Tom holds an engineering degree from University of Waterloo and an MBA from Queen's School of Business.
Prof. Dr. Joachim Wuermeling is Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, his areas of responsibility are Banking supervision, Risk control, and Information Technology. He is further member of the ECB Supervisory Board, of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), and of the German Financial Stability Committee as well as alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).