Douglas Bongartz-Renaud has 36 years of experience in financial markets, risk management, training and consulting for banks in Asia and the EMEA regions. He retired from ABN AMRO Bank in 2011 and moved from Amsterdam to Asia, where he continues to work with banks in the areas of Basel framework implementation, ALM, market and counterparty credit risk management, financial products and treasury trading development and training. In addition to consulting, Douglas designs and delivers detailed training workshops for clients and is a frequent speaker and trainer at risk management conferences and for trade associations such as ISDA, PRMIA, GARP and the ACI. He has delivered workshops on a range of subjects, including Basel 3, funds transfer pricing, liquidity risk management, strategic balance sheet management, credit value adjustment and counterparty credit risk, and currency options trading and structuring. During his 26 years at ABN AMRO, Douglas was based in the Netherlands where in his last position he was a principal in ABN AMRO’s Risk Advisory Services business and established the market risk and treasury advisory practice. He and his team worked with over 30 client banks in Asia and MENA.

Prior to this, he was involved in risk management to structure and accelerate the process of complex derivative products development, validation and introduction. He was extensively involved with ABN AMRO’s preparation and implementation of the Basel capital framework, working on Basel 3 and on CVA pricing, management and capital planning in 2011. Previously, Douglas held the positions of global head of currency derivatives and global head of rate derivatives and structured products at ABN AMRO and was responsible for building the bank’s front-office financial products development group. Prior to joining ABN AMRO, Douglas worked for the former Continental Bank in London, Chicago and New York, and for two years with Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH). During these periods, he was involved in credit analysis and lending, swaps structuring and trading at Continental and with corporate transaction structuring and FX advisory at BBH. Douglas holds a Bachelor of Arts and MBA (quantitative finance) degrees from the University of Chicago, and the FRM certification from GARP. He served on the board of directors of ISDA from 1994–2008, and was the secretary of the board from 1998–2004.

Eckart is part of the Financial Risk Management team within PwC Malaysia. He was transferred in 2007 transferred from Germany, where he was with another Big4 audit company, having joined the financial services risk advisory team there in 1999.

He has extensive experience in risk management. In particular, he focuses on integrated risk management for banks, Basel II & III projects (risk measurement & management, internal capital adequacy assessment process, regulatory reporting), risk measurement tool development and validation. In addition, he has experience in projects for corporate treasury management and corporate financial risk management.

Eckart is also actively involved in thought leadership and has published amongst others articles on Basel III and its impact for the financial industry. Furthermore Eckart presented extensively on the subject of Basel II & III, risk management in various seminars and conducted training for clients covering amongst others topics economic capital, ICAAP, credit and market risk.

Prior to joining the advisory industry, Eckart worked several years with major financial institutions in Germany.