Steven Claxton

Senior Advisor, Treasury & Risk, Global, FIS Global

Steven Claxton has a 20+ years accomplished Banking (risk management, valuations, and regulation) career across Asia Pacific and the United Arab Emirates. His responsibility at FIS is leading Treasury and Risk, across APAC/MEA as a Market Specialist, which sees him working directly with Banking clients to adapt FIS’ solutions to their strategic priorities.

 

He has worked for systemically important banks such as Standard Chartered Bank and as consultant with KPMG. His experience stretches across value propositions such as capital measurement & planning (ICAAP, Enterprise-Wide Stress Testing), prudential regulation (Basel III, Recovery & Resolution Planning), and behavioural modelling (credit (IFRS9), counterparty credit (xVA), operational, balance sheet (IRRBB) & liquidity).

 

Steven sat on the International Actuarial Association’s (IAA’s) 2024 Artificial Intelligence Task Force (AITF), where he led a work stream on how AI is optimising the role of the Actuary within the financial sector.

All Sessions by Steven Claxton

16:15 - 16:50

Reverse Stress Testing & Recovery Capacity Planning – Moving Beyond the Hypothetical

Exploring liquidity strategies in the context of rate volatility and macroeconomic uncertainty.

  • European regulators are now asking banks to identify scenarios that could break them, not just the ones they are given.
  • With current world events reshaping the risk landscape, this may be the most important stress testing conversation right now.
  • Join senior practitioners from FIS to explore what the ECB 2026 Reverse Stress Test may reveal, and what banks may need to do differently going forward.