The FSXpert Group is pleased to announce further growth of its membership with the recent addition of Simon Rigby, Mark Gray, Dominic O’Kane, and Stephanie Henderson-Begg. The Group now consists of over 50 Financial Services Experts, covering the full spectrum of expertise across the sector, including fund management, securitisation, internal audit, credit derivatives, bank regulation and risk management.
For 11 years, Simon Rigby was an analyst and fund manager in London, latterly with Schroders, until 1998. He then spent the next 20 years in management of financial services businesses. He was CEO of Schroders’ businesses in Hong Kong, mainland China, South Korea, and Taiwan until 2003. He headed up Lloyd George Management’s Asian business development until 2011 (including opening their Middle East Representative Office whilst living in the Gulf for four years). He became the CEO and shareholder in a Singapore fund management boutique until 2016. He has lived and continued to work in England since then and is a non-executive director of the Singapore company and its funds.
Simon is familiar with the asset management industry throughout Asia and the Middle East. He has been regulated by, and negotiated with, the MAS in Singapore and the SFC in Hong Kong. He has launched and promoted funds in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and the Cayman Islands and has experience of fund operations and client handling in Dublin, Luxembourg, London, and Switzerland.
Mark Gray has been working in investment banking and financial services for 40 years. He started as a Eurobond trader, specialising in European currencies. He worked for Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, Swiss Bank Corporation and Banque National de Paris. Subsequently he moved into structured finance, running a £10bn residential mortgage securitisation programme for US multi-national General Motors Acceptance Corporation. Later, he moved into risk management and has been a Chief Risk Officer for 19 years. He has been responsible for setting up organisations’ risk management frameworks in both the public and private sector. He has also advised various UK Government arms-length bodies.
Mark now sits on the boards of a UK building society, bank, and financial services company as well as his local Citizens Advice Bureau.
Dr Dominic O’Kane is a Professor of Finance with over 12 years’ experience in front office quantitative research in investment banking followed by 16 years’ experience in academia. Before entering the finance industry, he completed a doctorate on ‘early’ AI in the Theoretical Physics department of Oxford University. His current academic interests include derivative pricing and risk, machine learning and counterparty risk; he is now looking into global supply chains.
He has been a risk quant for an internal hedge fund, moved to working with an interest rate quant and was later head of European Quant Research.
He enjoys coding and is the author of the open source FinancePy quantitative finance library. He has published books and research papers on the topics of credit derivatives, fixed income securities, fixed income portfolio management, effects of EU legislation and OTC derivatives, as well as several industry publications on corporate banking, credit default swaps, and credit modelling. At EDHEC, he has taught core and advanced courses in fixed income, financial derivatives, machine learning, deep learning, Python and C++. He has also taught finance courses at Oxford University, Yale University, and the London Business School.
Dr Stephanie Henderson-Begg is a risk and regulatory specialist with extensive experience in supporting financial services firms with risk and regulatory topics from her time at PwC and the PRA/FSA.
Stephanie has worked with numerous lenders, payments firms, investment firms and small to mid-tier banks from new start-ups and challengers to overseas subsidiaries and branches.
She has acted as a Chief Risk Officer and supported senior management and boards in an advisory and coaching capacity.
Stephanie's experience includes drafting and reviewing of regulatory business plans (RBPs), capital (ICAAP), liquidity (ILAAP), recovery and wind down (SWDP)/solvent exit planning; provision of outsourced services across regulatory horizon scanning, regulatory reporting, risk reporting, financial crime management and internal audit reviews; deals/M&A support; governance, SMCR and board effectiveness reviews; business planning and stress testing; regulatory interview preparation and training; and risk management frameworks, risk appetites and policy documentation.
The expertise of these additional Experts has significantly enhanced the experience across the Group, especially in the fields of securitisation, mortgages, internal audit, fund management, financial services business management, credit derivatives and banking risk management and exit planning.
The experience and expertise of these additions to the Group make a further contribution to what is already a group of exceptional depth and breadth across the financial services sector. The expertise that we are able to offer to litigants and others provides world-class credibility as well as highly respected independence of perspective. We know that solicitors and their clients need that credibility from Experts and that the courts require that independence. Solicitors also need to find the right Expert and do not want to spend weeks of their valuable time in the process. Our Group of Experts provides an easily and swiftly accessible resource of financial services expertise. As we continue to grow our Group, we are delighted to welcome our newly joined Experts.
The FS Expert Group focuses entirely on the financial services sector and provides expertise to litigants and others engaged in disputes and investigations relating to this leading professional sector in the UK and globally. In court, the Group provides expert witness evidence and independence of thought, based on extensive personal experience.
December 2024