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Mr. Yasuda joined Mitsubishi Bank (current MUFG Bank) in April 1993. He has developed his career in Shibuya Branch, Planning Division (Risk Management), Study Exchange Program (Graduate School, University of Tsukuba), Operations Planning Division, Human Resources Division, and the Corporate Risk Management Division (Tokyo, New York), and has been appointed as the Head of Corporate Data Management Division for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and MUFG Bank in December 2017.

In April 2019, he promoted as the Executive Officer and Chief Data Officer (CDO), and has been appointed as the Head of Corporate Risk Management Division since April 2020.

He has established good reputation on identifying issues, and developing / implementing corporate strategies, based on his deep knowledge and experience of data analysis for risk management and regulatory trends.

Mr. Yasuda joined Mitsubishi Bank (current MUFG Bank) in April 1993. He has developed his career in Shibuya Branch, Planning Division (Risk Management), Study Exchange Program (Graduate School, University of Tsukuba), Operations Planning Division, Human Resources Division, and the Corporate Risk Management Division (Tokyo, New York), and has been appointed as the Head of Corporate Data Management Division for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and MUFG Bank in December 2017.

In April 2019, he promoted as the Executive Officer and Chief Data Officer (CDO), and has been appointed as the Head of Corporate Risk Management Division since April 2020.

He has established good reputation on identifying issues, and developing / implementing corporate strategies, based on his deep knowledge and experience of data analysis for risk management and regulatory trends.

1993年4月 三菱銀行（現三菱UFJ銀行）入行。渋谷支店、企画部（リスク管理）、国内留学（筑波大学大学院）、事務企画部、人事部、リスク統括部（東京・NY）を経て、2017年12月より 三菱UFJフィナンシャルグループ及び三菱UFJ銀行 経営情報統括部長。

2019年4月より執行役員ならびにCDO（Chief Data Officer）就任。2020年4月より現職。

リスク管理・規制動向などの知見・データ分析をベースとした課題抽出・戦略立案、及びその戦略の実現に定評あり。

Shiro Katsufuji is Director of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, where he is responsible for risk and regulatory advisory since July 2017.His role includes production and delivery of monthly “Stress Intelligence”, advisory for risk appetite framework and for regulatory affairs. Prior to the current position, he was the Deputy General Manager for Corporate Risk Management Division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group from 2011 to 2017. He was responsible for enterprise risk management, the internal capital adequacy process. He also worked on regulatory affairs regarding Basel III reform. He was U.S. Chief Economist of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, the role he held from 2005 to 2011 in New York. He also had held senior positions for more than 10 years in the Treasury and Sales & Trading in Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Tokyo and London.

Blake Evans-Pritchard is bureau chief, Asia, for Risk.net based in Hong Kong. Before taking on his current role, he spent three years covering regulatory issues across Asia for Risk.net, including implementation of Basel III and other international standards in regional jurisdictions. Previously, he spent five years in Brussels writing about the European Union’s financial services sector and competition policy and a number of years as Africa editor for a news service covering post-conflict restitution around the world.

Tomo Ishikawa heads the Government and Regulatory Affairs Office at MUFG. Ishikawa is responsible for orchestrating the group-wide advocacy strategy on financial regulatory policies. He also oversees recovery/resolution planning for the group, and government relations across the regions. Prior to his current role, Ishikawa headed MUFG’s Regulatory Strategy team for the EMEA region, based in London.

Until January 2017, Ishikawa worked as the head of the digital team within the Government & Regulatory Affairs Division at Deutsche Bank AG (based in London), where he led the advocacy engagement on technology & digital related policies.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Ishikawa served as Deputy Director of Prudential Policy Office at Financial Services Agency of Japan (Japan FSA). He chaired the work stream (WS1) under the Working Group on Margin Requirement (WGMR), reporting to the BCBS and the IOSCO board, with the mandate to harmonize the margin rules across the regions.

Ishikawa started his professional career at Merrill Lynch as an investment banker. After 12 years at Merrill Lynch (Tokyo and NY), he moved to RECOF Corporation (an M&A boutique firm in Tokyo), and then to Deutsche Bank (financial institutions coverage based in Tokyo). He has 15 years of experience as an investment banker, prior to becoming a regulatory policy expert.

Tomo graduated from Keio University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1996.  He lived in Toronto, Canada, prior to studying economics at Keio.

Covers capital and risk related Basel regulations in terms of negotiation with regulatory supervisors and implementation project management (FRTB, CVA, Initial Margin, Large Exposure, Minimum Haircut etc.) Master of Engineering (Tokyo Univ.)

Australia-based Gavin Pugh is AxiomSL’s Head of Risk Solutions for Asia Pacific. In this established client-facing role, he is responsible for defining and executing the Risk strategy across all business divisions in Asia. Prior to joining AxiomSL, Gavin held senior roles with Moody’s Corporation in Sydney and Singapore and was instrumental in defining their risk analytics software roadmap in Asia Pacific. Gavin possesses more than 20 years of international financial markets experience, and managing teams in Asia Pacific, Europe and the US, making him uniquely experienced to manage challenging situations across diverse geographies and cultures. Gavin has in conjunction with Singapore Management University (SMU) conducted courses at Alumni events – presenting and conducted writing courses around ‘Storytelling with data’ and ‘Explaining complex risk management issues simply and effectively’. Gavin Pugh is also a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

John Feeney manages Martialis Consulting working on financial markets product and infrastructure. He has been in financial markets for over 30 years in trading and management roles across most asset classes. Mr. Feeney has worked for National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank in Sydney, Citibank in Sydney and London and Macquarie Bank in Sydney. Over this time he has traded and managed interest rate derivates, foreign exchange, traded credit, commodities and funding businesses. Most recently, he has been focussing on LIBOR and other IBOR transition issues as well as the broader practice areas of Martialis Consulting.

Recently, Mr. Feeney has been an ISDA Board Member and Vice-Chairman and an AFMA Board member.

Mr. Feeney has a PhD and BSc (Hons) from University of Sydney.

I am Section Head of Integrated Risk Management Division in Shinsei Bank. I am managing market risk and quantitative analysis including trading and banking book especially interest rate and FX products. Prior to current position, I was exotic derivative trader and product structurer. I have experienced market for twenty years. I am part-time teacher at Graduate School of Business and Finance, Waseda University.

Eduardo Pereira is the Product Manager for SIMM (Standard Initial Margin Method) at Bloomberg. He manages the SIMM EMEA financial engineering team, and supervises the development of Bloomberg's XVA business in EMEA and APAC. Previously, he was a financial engineer in the product team which developed and launched Bloomberg's collateral management product, BCOL. Pereira joined Bloomberg in London in 2005 and has held several other positions in the firm, including Application Specialist in fixed income derivative instruments and Sales Manager. Eduardo holds a BEng (Honours) degree from Cranfield University in Aero Mechanical Systems Engineering as well as a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Leeds. At postgraduate level, Eduardo obtained qualifications from the London Business School in Corporate Risk Management as well as the London School of Economics where he read Management Accounting.

Seiichi Tanaka is General Manager of Wholesale Operations and Procedures Planning Office, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.

Since 2008, Mr. Tanaka has been actively engaged in a variety of projects related to international financial regulations, including central clearing, trade reporting, margin requirements and benchmark reform.

Mr. Tanaka graduated from the School of Political Science and Economics of Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and is a U.S. CPA (Certified Public Accountant).

I am currently heading the Global Risk Analytics function at Mizuho.

I have started my career at Societe Generale's Economic Research Department focusing on the Eurozone. I have then worked on Counterparty Credit Risk modelling for Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank and Rabobank International in Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and London, putting in place centralised Monte Carlo frameworks, developing targeted solutions for wrong-way risk and non-vanilla transactions.

I hold a M.Sc. in Statistics & Economics from ParisTech ENSAE and a Master’s Degree from Sciences-Po Paris. I am a CQF and GARP FRM alumni.

Shuichi Hayashida is Head of Japan and Head of Southeast Asia for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group.

Hayashida works out of Tokyo office to further the World Bank Group’s mission of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity through collaboration with Japanese investors and their partners. To that end, MIGA supports investments in regions where capital is most scarce. MIGA is now the leading political risk insurance provider in fragile and conflict affected countries.

Previously he worked for MUFG Bank (formerly The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ) out of Singapore, London, Tokyo with focus on project finance transactions in his capacity as both financial advisor and lender covering energy sector globally. He also worked on large scale-acquisitions, merger and divestment projects in Asia.

Hayashida has a Master of Laws from University of London, Master of Science in Finance from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He is also a US-certified CPA and a Japanese CMA (chartered member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan).

Takayuki Mamabe joined S&P Global in 2021 and is responsible for ESG Business Development in Japan and Korea. Prior to joining S&P Global, Takayuki led environmental and sustainability initiatives at Rakuten, Inc. His career experience involves working in environmental and sustainability activities for more than 10 years in various positions, including as a researcher at MUFG Research & Consulting, NGO, etc., and as a member of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, etc., investigation committee on sustainable production and consumption.

Takayuki completed the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. He is an Invited Researcher of Osaka University Social Solution Initiative (SSI) and holds Professional engineer (Environment and Forest Departments).

Shigehiko Mori is a Director of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, where he is responsible for risk management advisory since July 2019. His role includes strategic risk advisory with use of stress test model as well as advisory for risk appetite framework. He effectively makes use of knowledge and skills of scenario analysis and stress test at banking industry in climate-related change advisory .

Prior to the current position, he was General Manager of Risk Governance Office and Risk Analysis Office of Mizuho Financial Group from 2017 to 2019. He was responsible for risk appetite framework and stress test as well as market and liquidity risk management in association with FRTB, CVA. He also assumed professional model developer of AMA of operational risk, as introduced on cover page of Risk magazine in September 2010.

In addition he was engaged in financial products promotion in APAC from 2012 to 2016.

Education

Bachelor of Law from Tokyo University

MBA from Oxford University ( Said Business School)

Masters in Finance from London Business School

Writing

“ Non Financial Risk Management” (Institution for Financial Affairs, Inc ) (2020) (Representative writing )

“ Banking Law Journal 21 – Crisis management and Emergency Response “(Economic legal research institute ) (Co-writing )

2014年新生銀行に入行。グループポートフォリオリスク管理部のシニアマネージャーとして信用リスク管理業務に従事。バーゼル規制対応、リスクアペタイトフレームワーク、TCFD提言に基づくシナリオ分析等の業務を担当している。また、リスク管理の高度化のために、データサイエンティストとしてビッグデータの分析、モデル開発に従事している。

神戸大学博士号（経済学）を取得。

Yuki Toyoshima joined Shinsei Bank in 2014. He is engaged in credit risk management as a senior manager of the Group Portfolio Risk Management Division. He is responsible for Basel regulatory related tasks, construction of the risk appetite framework, and scenario analysis of TCFD recommendations. He is also involved in big data analysis and model development as a data scientist for the purpose of improving risk management. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Kobe University.

Hiroyuki Yoshizawa is an Executive Director and head of product in IHS Markit Japan GK.

He leads the business development across fixed income pricing, derivative valuation Service, illiquid asset valuation, and financial data solution.

His business offers the solution to risk management, regulatory compliance and accounting correspondence that are facing liquidity data challenge of financial instruments under recent circumstances. He is also involved in many discussions of data approach investment strategy.

Prior to joining IHS Markit, he had been a fixed income trader for more than 25 years in international banks and actively traded various credit, structured, and emerging market products.

1998 to 2019 worked at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, mainly working for FX, Money, derivatives market .During the years worked at derivatives subsidiary at NY. After Lehman shock, focused to establish CCP workflow, and derivatives regulation framework.

Ph.D. candidate in engineering (Tokyo University)
MBA (Tsukuba University)
BA in Economics  (Hitotsubashi University)

Naoki Kasai is the General Manager of Global Markets Credit Department at Mizuho Bank where he is charge of XVA hedge, counter party risk management, collateral management, documentation, client clearing service for CCP and sales & trading for CP and other securities. 

He has spent most of his career in the derivative field.  Prior to this role, from September 2009 to March 2017, he was responsible for hedging operations for JPY interest rate risks in the bank portfolio.  From December 2005 to September 2009, he was in charge of market risk management in Mizuho Capital Markets (UK), Ltd.  From March 2004 to December 2005, he was responsible for market risk management in Mizuho Capital Markets Corporation, Ltd.  From May 1996 to March 2004, he was a trader for interest and currency derivatives for Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. and Fuji Bank, Ltd.

• Seiji Kurotaki is the Chief Manager of Financial Accounting Division at Resona Holdings, Inc.
• He has been engaged in th e formulation of group financial and capital strategies since 2005.
• He has successfully led numerous projects, such as Basel capital regulation, market and risk-related regulations, the introduction of new accounting systems.

Samir Bashir is responsible for Global Economic Capital Modeling and Risk Identification at MUFG. Previously, Samir worked at other Canadian FIs developing retail credit risk strategies, and Basel II regulatory and stress testing models.

He has a Bachelors in Computer Science and Masters in Statistics both from University of Toronto.

Susumu Higaki is Head of XVA quant modelling at MUFG Bank and managing global XVA quant group including two securities firms in London & Tokyo. Prior to the current role, he worked as rates exotics & credit derivatives quant and was heavily involved in the industry initiative to develop the SIMM for the Uncleared Margin Rule. He has Bachelor’s & Master’s degrees in physics from Kyoto University.

Yoshihiko UCHIDA was formerly a Director in the Bank Supervision Department of the Bank of Japan, a Director in the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan, and a Director in the Supervisory Bureau of the Financial Services Agency.

For more than 20 years, he has been working on issues related to asset pricing, risk management in banks, and financial market stability. His main areas of research are asset valuation, financial risk management including model risk, financial market structure, and related regulations. Recently, he has been expanding his research area to include the impact of crypto currencies on financial markets.
He holds a Master's degree in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo, a Master's degree in Mathematics from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Kyoto University.