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Ankit Dixit

Dubai

Summary

  • Comprehensive banking experience with specialization in Market Risk, Liquidity Risk and Treasury
  • Built the Asset Liability and Balance Sheet Management team including the development of management, measurement and reporting framework
  • Set up the Hedge Accounting and Effectiveness Testing framework in the bank for execution of Micro and Macro Balance Sheet Hedges
  • Experience in implementing ALM and FTP system for the bank, involved in the end to end process
  • Worked in bank wide projects like upgrading the Treasury system of the bank; migration from Kondor+ to Murex. with participation as steering/working committee member
  • Added value to the bank by providing inputs in ALCO, Mancom and other senior management and Board level committees
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience of working with C suite
  • Performed quantitative impact studies on effect of various scenarios on bank’s capital and liquidity and provided recommendations to ALCO and Board Risk Committee
  • Successfully handled multicultural teams in Global banks like JPM Chase, Nomura (Lehman Brothers) and Local banks like Emirates NBD and Rakbank

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior VP: HEAD OF FTP AND ALM

AL MASRAF
06.2023 - Current
  • Double hatting, as Head of FTP, ALM and Acting CFO
  • Setting up ALM and FTP unit in the bank, the function was managed by an external consultant
  • Enhancement of the FTP framework of the bank, to effectively manage the balance sheet in line with management expectations
  • End to end implementation of ALM and FTP system, starting from vendor selection to performing UAT and implementation. Managed the project as a steering committee member
  • Preparation of ALCO packs for the ALM unit including analysis of the EaR and EvE metrics for Interest Rate Risk
  • Reporting of Liquidity Risk, including Basel III ratios like LCR, NSFR and other internal liquidity measurement tools
  • Devised the behavioural model for non maturity products for Structural Gap reports

HEAD OF TREASURY MID OFFICE

EMIRATES NBD
06.2017 - 06.2023
  • Responsible for business support and business control for Treasury Business at an overall Group level
  • End to end responsibility of the FX Net Open Position of the ENBD group including international branches and subsidiaries
  • Valuation of deals and reporting of derivative valuations to counterparties; completely automated the process using AI -Robotics
  • Enhanced the control framework for Market Data of the bank, used for pricing, valuations, PL Reporting and collateral management and settlement
  • Developed the illiquidity framework for testing of the illiquid positions in trading desk
  • Handling dynamic regulatory framework including regulations like TESS, IBOR, FRTB and AED Monetary reforms issued by CBUAE
  • Experience in IRSG (Interest Rate Setting Mechanism) by CBUAE for publishing of EIBOR
  • Product approval for complex derivative structures before deal initiation
  • Project Management – implementation of projects for Treasury from BRD stage till Go live stage
  • End to end testing of aspects like pricing, valuations and risk metrics for Treasury products
  • Providing analytic reports for ALCO and BOARD for decision making
  • Adept with CBUAE regulations, IFRS and Basel changes pertaining to Treasury/Risk.

SENIOR MGR: MARKET RISK

RAKBANK
05.2015 - 06.2017
  • Monitoring of daily Treasury and Investment limits and escalation of the breaches
  • Monitoring Market Risk of the portfolio using tools like VaR and Duration
  • Performed various behavioural analysis using concepts like normal distribution
  • Experience in capital calculations for market risk using standardized and IMA method as per Basel II
  • Implementation of Basel III in the bank including but not limited to LCR, NSFR and Leverage Ratio
  • Vetting of various wholesale banking policies and doing an annual review of business divisions
  • Reporting of daily time bucket-wise and currency-wise cash-flows for nostro funding
  • Providing useful inputs and reports to ALCO and regulatory reporting team
  • Set up the Treasury Middle office team in the bank along-with setting up controls
  • Formulated the Daily Treasury Report providing snapshot view of the daily activity of Treasury
  • Valuation of derivative deals and providing the MTM values to the back office for onward transmission to clients
  • Monitoring of treasury profitability across different asset classes, dealer desks and dealers
  • Doing in-depth analysis and approving complex derivative structures to be done by the Treasury front office
  • Reporting of the Open currency position and the reconciliation of the same
  • Negotiating ISDA and CSA with counterparties, performing collateral management by handling margin calls beyond CSA thresholds
  • Handling the central bank (regulatory authority), internal and external audit.

MARKET RISK AND TREASURY MID OFFICE

BANK MUSCAT
01.2010 - 05.2015
  • Built the overall framework of Market Risk and Treasury Middle Office starting at overall policy level, drilling down to operational level
  • Devised the limit framework for Treasury Products in line with industry-wide best practices
  • Handling the end to end dashboard reporting and performance measurement for Treasury
  • Monitoring of limits and escalation of breaches in line with the Board approved policies for activities in the trading and back-to-back book
  • Performed various aspects of Enterprise risk like ICAAP reporting, Country Risk reporting
  • Handled Liquidity Reporting including formulation of the contingency funding plan
  • Formulated the stress testing framework for liquidity using scenario analysis
  • Monitoring Market Risk of the portfolio using tools like VaR and Duration
  • Performed various behavioural analysis using concepts like normal distribution
  • Experience in capital calculations for market risk using standardized and IMA method as per Basel II
  • Implementation of Basel III in the bank including but not limited to LCR, NSFR and Leverage Ratio
  • Vetting of various wholesale banking policies and doing an annual review of business divisions


Market Risk and Treasury Middle Office

JP MORGAN, NOMURA And ICICI Bank
11.2004 - 01.2010

ICICI Bank - Nov 2004 to March 2006

Nomura - March 2006 to March 2007 and March 2008 to Jan 2010

JP Morgan Chase - March 2007 to March 2008


  • Handling the team of Asset Liability and Management and Network Management (Treasury Operations)
  • Managing Asset Liability Management desk, preparation of daily funding projections, ensuring that the firm is liquid enough all the time, preparing host of MIS on Asset Liability Management
  • Handling Middle Office function in Derivatives (interest rate swaps, options, FX, forwards) including processing, confirming, accounting, exposure monitoring sending funding requirements and settlement of derivative contracts with counterparties
  • Automation of manual processes like uploading of deals in the system, calculation of figures of swaps and options, process relating to expiry of options, developing of various settlement reports.
  • Developed controls by making the spreadsheets formula driven, spreadsheets like funding sheet, notional reporting sheet and host of regulatory returns.
  • Managed and successfully completed projects like on boarding of an existing system from a different location, replacing of Murex by Athena, on boarding of credit derivative systems for Credit Default Swaps.
  • Monitoring exposure and tenor limits of counterparties, deal size limits of derivative contracts


Education

Chartered Financial Analyst -

CFA Institute
USA
01.2011

Financial Risk Manager -

GARP
USA
01.2005

Chartered Accountant -

Chartered Accountant: Rank Holder(39th Rank)
India
01.2004

Languages

English
Hindi
Gujarati
Marathi

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 06/28/81
  • Marital Status: Married

Hobbies and Interests

  • Meditation
  • Watching TV

Timeline

Senior VP: HEAD OF FTP AND ALM

AL MASRAF
06.2023 - Current

HEAD OF TREASURY MID OFFICE

EMIRATES NBD
06.2017 - 06.2023

SENIOR MGR: MARKET RISK

RAKBANK
05.2015 - 06.2017

MARKET RISK AND TREASURY MID OFFICE

BANK MUSCAT
01.2010 - 05.2015

Market Risk and Treasury Middle Office

JP MORGAN, NOMURA And ICICI Bank
11.2004 - 01.2010

Chartered Financial Analyst -

CFA Institute

Financial Risk Manager -

GARP

Chartered Accountant -

Chartered Accountant: Rank Holder(39th Rank)
Ankit Dixit