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Yasuhisa Watanabe is Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for RGA Reinsurance Company Japan Branch, where he leads the finance and accounting team. He is responsible for the overall financial management of the Japan Branch, and is also Regional Finance Projects Director for improving business management in the Asian region for RGA. He joined RGA Japan as CFO in 2004 when RGA was granted a full license to operate in Japan.
In addition to these roles, Yasuhisa serves on the Japan Management Board, RGA Japan’s highest decision-making body, and he chairs the Investment, Compliance, and Audit & Risk Management committees.
Prior to joining RGA, Yasuhisa led the finance team for PCA Life and was responsible for enhancing its EV-based financial reporting system. He also worked for Merrill Lynch Japan Securities as Controller, contributing to the industry-first launch of bancassurance by Merrill Lynch International Private Client Group (IPCG), which serves high net worth customers and supports merger and acquisition initiatives for banks in the Core Finance Division.
Yasuhisa received an Executive M.B.A. (EMBA) from the Keio Business School. He is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (CPA), recognized by the New Jersey Society of CPAs, and is a member of The Japan Committee for Economic Development.

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).

Akiko Tsuji is the Vice President, Global Markets Planning Division of MUFG Bank, Ltd. and has worked at MUFG Bank since 2011. Previously, Akiko Tsuji was at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities and worked in Transaction Management Group (FID) where she worked on documentation of market contracts.

Joined Nippon Credit Bank in 1996. He has been engaged in the development of the BOJ RTGS and securities settlement system in Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. since 1999.

After that, he joined BNP Paribas Securities in 2000, and worked on IT system development in the back division until 2012. From 2004 to 2006, worked at BNP Paribas (London) to develop a global bond trading platform. After returning to Japan, he took up the post of Head of Operations and later concurrently held the banking division. Finally, as Head of IT and Operations, he oversaw IT infrastructure, IT security and IT governance, as well as IT and operations for each product.

From 2010 to 2012, he served concurrently as Auditor of Japan Government Clearing Corporation.

Joined Societe Generale Securities /Bank and Lyxor Asset Management in 2012. As COO, he led the start-up of flow business, integration with Newedge Securities with the achievement of Japanese incorporation (KK) , and renovation project of back office system. In addition, we constructed an office environment for work style reform in conjunction with office relocation.

July 2018, Joined Mizuho Securities. As COO of the Global Markets Division, he has worked across products to build GTOM (Global Target Operating Model Committee) to promote the establishment of Business and IT infrastructure from a front-to-back perspective, and since April 2020 has also served as Global Joint Operations Head in Operations. In April 2021, he also started the mission of Attached to FG CIO and is taking charge of the overseas IT structural reform of Mizuho Financial Group. In addition, Joint Head of Operations Group has been added since April 2022.

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.

• 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.

Mr. Motoyoshi is responsible for pricing XVA covering globally, and enacting hedge strategy at XVA desk. He is also engaged in quantitative analysis as a desk quant.

He graduated from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of the University of Tokyo, and is a FRM.

Dai Yamashita is the Head of triCalculate Valuation and Risk Analytics, Asia at OSTTRA.

He is in charge of developing the calculation engines of triCalculate, the valuation and risk analytics service covering XVA, IM, VM, and other regulatory calculations for OTC derivatives.

Prior to joining TriOptima, OSTTRA, he was at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, engaged in various market risk-related projects such as FRTB and SIMM.

Before working at financial institutions, he was at Bank of Japan, supervising investment banks.

Tomoko Morita is Senior Director and Head of Tokyo Office of International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA). She is working on a range of policy issues, including Japanese public policy, risk management, collateral management and benchmark reforms. Prior to joining ISDA, she was at the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ) where she worked on establishing their collateral management unit, as well as the risk management framework for investment securities portfolio at IBJ’s Risk Management Department.

Dr. Shinichiro Itozaki is a Senior Manager of Financial Engineering Division at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. Ltd. Dr. Itozaki is responsible for planning and quantitative research of XVA, ISDA SIMM, interest rate benchmark reform, and OTC derivatives market reform in general. Dr. Itozaki received a Ph. D. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Tokyo.

Atsuya Watanabe is a Regulatory Reform Specialist and In-Business Risk & Control Officer for the Markets business in Citigroup Japan.

Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Watanabe led various initiatives to drive the compliance to new U.S. and EU regulations applicable to Asia Pacific as an APAC Compliance Officer at JPMorgan.

Mr. Watanabe served as one of the co-chairpersons of the Term Reference Rate Sub-Group of the Cross-Industry Committee, for the purpose of JPY LIBOR transition.
Mr. Watanabe serves as one of the co-chairpersons of ISDA Japan Credit Derivatives Committee and Regulatory Committee’s OTC Derivatives Regulation Working Group and its sub-Working Group of Fund transactions under Trust Bank Account.