Webinar: The Banking sector in the post pandemic new normal
Background
The banking sector’s operational resilience and capacity to adapt to major external shocks has been stretched beyond even the worst-case stress scenarios by the COVID-19 pandemic. Banks have reacted by putting in place new ways of working to ensure the well-being of their staff members and customers. Well capitalised and liquid banks have so far shown their resilience to support the economy and adapted their operations to offer loan moratoria and other financial assistance to homeowners, personal customers, SMEs and corporate clients.
The banking sector is now responding to a new environment that goes beyond supporting the economy.
New challenges will have to be addressed:
- The importance of sustainability and responsible finance,
- Risk management focused on improved operations with remote working the norm and digitalisation,
- New security threats.
Banks will have to continue offering timely financial assistance to businesses, many of whom need to restructure as their weaknesses have been exposed by the pandemic. Managing the bank’s liquidity and capital levels and other issues such as IFRS 9 also need to be taken into account. In such a fast-changing environment the role of the Board and the senior executive has never been more important.
Registration
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Speakers
Grace Camilleri | EY Malta Associate Partner
Grace Camilleri has over 20 years of professional experience and leads the Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) and Banking Advisory Services for EY Malta. Grace’s technical expertise spans a range of service lines, with a focus on transaction advisory, financial services regulation and restructuring. She supports local and foreign companies operating in the financial services sector and has been involved in numerous projects, including regulatory, IFRS, risk management, due diligence assistance and advisory support in financial crime. Grace is a certified accountant and a Fellow of the Malta Institute of Accountants. |
David Baker | EY Cyprus Country Manager Partner
David Barker is, from July 1st, the Country Managing Partner for Cyprus and also the Central and Eastern European Transactions & Corporate Finance Leader for EY. He is a seasoned corporate finance practitioner of more than 30 years. He has advised on financial services transactions and restructurings, focusing on advising retail, commercial and investment banks, asset managers and alternative investors, insurance companies, mutual and co-operative financial organizations and specialty finance companies. Additionally, David works extensively with governments, private equity, sovereign wealth funds and credit funds to realize their ambitions in the financial services sector.
Prior to joining EY in 2001, David held executive leadership roles at leading investment banks. He earned a master’s degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. David has a keen interest in, and supports, a number of children’s education and developmental charities. |
Alastair Tyler | LIBF Managing Director
Alastair Tyler is a senior banking professional and academic specialising in Asset Finance, Corporate and Investment Banking. He is the Managing Director, Global Learning at The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF), with responsibility for strategy and business development. He led the
project for the set up and launch of ADGM Academy in Abu Dhabi. He has taught banking and finance courses in many countries including Cuba, UAE and Uzbekistan. Alastair worked for over twenty-five years in Corporate and Investment Banking in a range of senior front office roles for major UK banks (Barclays, RBS and Santander).
Alastair was a Consultant with one of the Big IV firms in the Banking & Capital Markets group where he had a lead role on a Conduct review into one of the major UK international banks. He has authored two textbooks; Corporate Lending (focussed on mid cap companies) and Bank Regulation & Economic Policy and is the Chief Examiner for Corporate Lending at LIBF. Alastair gained a distinction in Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in banking and finance from LIBF in 2013 and has a BSc in Economics from University of Bristol |
Marcel Cassar | CEO APS Bank
Marcel Cassar started his professional career with a Big 4 firm in 1987, followed by a 5 years stint in bank regulation and supervision at MIBA/MFSC (what is today the MFSA) where he was trained at the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve Board. Since 1996 he has held successively senior executive positions in banking and financial services, as General Manager at Lombard Bank Malta plc (1996-2004) and First Executive Vice President and CFO at FIMBank plc (2004-2015). He has served as a board member of the Malta Bankers’ Association for a number of years, including as Deputy Chairman (2017-2018) and Chairman (2018-2020), leading to a seat on the main board of the Brussels-based European Banking Federation (EBF).
Marcel is a CPA, a Fellow of the Malta Institute of Accountants and holds an MBA in Bank Financial Management from the University of Wales and Manchester Business School (1995). He lectures in the M.A. (Financial Services) programme at the University of Malta and has been a supervisor and examiner of many a thesis over the years. He contributes articles and speaks at conferences in Malta and overseas, particularly on topics related to banking policy, strategy and ESG. |
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