30th November 2004, Dublin Castle
Alexander Batchvarov
Alexander joined Merrill Lynch in March 1998 as head of international structured credit research. He and his team provide research coverage of the structured credit market developments in Europe and Asia. The team regularly publishes The International Structured Credit Weekly to provide in-depth analysis of market developments, as well as research reports dedicated to specific transactions or sectors of the market, such as MBS in different countries, long-dated bonds, securities finance companies, etc. Alexander's team has consistently been ranked the number one securitisation research provider in investors surveys by ISR, SFI, EuroMoney, Credit Magazine and Institutional Investor. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Alexander worked for several years as a structured finance analyst in the ABS Group and a sovereign analyst in the sovereign risk unit of Moody's Investors Service in London and New York. Prior to Moody's, Alexander was a manager in the emerging markets financial institutions group in Citibank in New York. Alexander holds a Ph.D. in international economics from the National Academy of Sciences in Bulgaria and an MBA in Finance from University of Alberta in Canada. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of AIMR and NYSSA. Mark Stout Head of Securitisation KBC Bank Mark is responsible for the securitisation activities within the treasury and capital markets division of KBC Bank. This includes firstly investments in primarily European highly rated asset backed bonds through KBC's multi-purpose Quasar conduit. A second activity is marketing and structuring conduit securitisation transactions for the bank's clients, either through Quasar or through single-seller conduits. Finally, the team is responsible for balance sheet mortgage and consumer loan securitisation transactions for KBC Bank. Peter Knez Global CIO of Fixed Income Barclays Peter is chief investment officer - global fixed income. Previously, he was executive vice president and managing director at Lincoln Capital Management. He joined LCM in 1996 as an analyst. Peter has held a number of academic positions over the past six years, and currently is Adjunct Professor of finance at the Kellogg Graduate School, Northwestern University. Prior to his first academic position, he was an associate at Goldman Sachs. Peter did PhD work in finance at the Wharton School and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago department of economics. Turlough Galvin Partner Matheson Turlough Galvin is a partner in the tax and structured finance group of Matheson. He advises blue-chip international corporations, investment banks and financial institutions doing business in and through Ireland. He practices corporate tax specialising in structured finance, securitisation, CDOs, repackaging, credit derivatives and mergers and acquisitions. Turlough was involved in re-drafting the Irish securitisation legislation in 2002/2003, the Irish VAT legislation relating to structured finance transactions in 2004, the Irish tax legislation relating to the implementation of IAS as it impacts upon structured finance transactions in 2005 and the Irish tax legislation relating to withholding tax on bonds in 2006. Turlough lectures and writes regularly on international tax and structured finance issues. Andrew Allan Head of Syndicate and Trading UBS Andrew joined UBS in June 2003 as Head of European asset backed syndicate / secondary trading. Prior to joining UBS, Andrew was a member of Citigroup's European debt syndicate team for asset-backed securities and one of his main focuses has been the development of the subordinate ABS market in Europe. In 1998, he undertook the ABS capital markets role in New York. Andrew started at Citigroup (SchroderSalomonSmithBarney) in February 1996 as an ABS/MBS product manager in London. He was previously a senior ABS portfolio manager for Abbey National Treasury Services (1988-1996) Andrew has a PhD degree (Economics) from the University of St. Andrews and a B.Sc. (Engineering) from the University of Oklahoma. Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: fclose(): Argument #1 ($stream) must be of type resource, bool given in /var/www/financedublin.com/conference/2004-02/common.inc.php:243 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/financedublin.com/conference/2004-02/common.inc.php(243): fclose() #1 /var/www/financedublin.com/conference/2004-02/biog.php(17): print_speakers_biog() #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/financedublin.com/conference/2004-02/common.inc.php on line 243
Mark Stout
Peter Knez
Turlough Galvin
Andrew Allan
