Imran Syed

Head of Counterparty & Market Risk Stress Testing, UBS

Imran Syed is currently Head of Stress Testing - Counterparty and Market Risk at UBS. He was part of the core team that established the Counterparty Market Risk function at Credit Suisse and subsequently at UBS. Imran has over a decade of stress testing and scenario design experience across Market, Counterparty risk and firmwide stress testing as well as Regulatory Stress Testing. His experience spans across scenario design, execution as well as stress testing infrastructure. Prior to this he set up and led the Equities market risk team for Credit Suisse in India GCC. He was previously the Head of Equities, Capital Markets and Risk Analytics at BofA India GCC.

All Sessions by Imran Syed

14:25 - 15:05

Counterparty Credit Risk

Assessing how geopolitical shocks, sanctions, and market volatility are reshaping counterparty exposures and collateral demands.

  • Managing counterparty exposure across stressed and potentially sanctioned jurisdictions
  • Strengthening collateral and margin practices under rate and market volatility
  • Enhancing modelling and validation amid data gaps and uncertainty
  • Integrating counterparty risk into liquidity, capital, and stress-testing frameworks