Risk Officer Forum: the World From the Perspective of Risk Officers

Andrea Cseresznye is head of Risk Management at ING Hungary. She joined ING in 1993 as a credit risk analyst and since that time has tracked all the different levels of risk management as well as some front office positions. Andrea has been Head of Risk Management since 2009 and is a member of the branch management team at ING Hungary. Previously she was credit risk analyst for Creditanstalt Zrt in Hungary.

Oszkar Kiss recently joined Magnet Bank as CRO. He has 20 years of experience in commercial banking and the investment sector. Oszkar spent the first 15 years of his career at Raiffeisen Bank in various credit risk positions, focusing mainly on structured financing, corporate underwriting, and distressed restructuring. Later he moved to the investment side as CEO of Forestay Fund Manager Co. and also managed his own financial and venture capital investments.

Oszkar graduated from Corvinus University of Budapest and University of Passau specializing in finance, banking, and company valuation.

Peter Molnár is responsible for EY’s Financial Services Risk Management Consulting services in Hungary. Before joining EY, he worked in the Hungarian and U.K. banking sectors for several years in Treasury-ALM and market risk-related fields. During his EY career, Péter served multiple Hungarian and Tier1 banking clients in the U.K. His main areas of focus are credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, and operational risk. He has led projects in technical areas including quantitative model development, testing, and validation, and has also set up risk management frameworks, policies, and strategies, optimized internal processes, and helped clients with regulatory compliance.

Peter is a certified Professional Risk Manager (PRM™), holds the Sustainability and Climate Risk (SCR®) certificate, the Hungarian Stock Exchange Exam, and the CEFA certificate.

Klaudia Benkő has more than ten years of experience in the insurance sector. Currently she is responsible for the risk management of both life and non-life entities. 

Before she joined Posta Biztosító, Klaudia worked for eight years at the Central Bank of Hungary. Initially she was in the supervisory reporting area, where she was involved in the implementation of the Solvency II framework. Later she moved to insurance supervision and was responsible for projects and analysis in the sector.

Straubinger András is the Head of the Risk Management Department at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), the Central Bank of Hungary. He joined the MNB in 2008 after receiving his master’s in economics at the Corvinus University of Budapest. After five years in the risk management department, Straubinger joined the Directorate Risk Management of the European Central Bank. In 2015 he returned to MNB as Head of the Risk Management Department. Straubinger is responsible for coordinating the market and credit risk management of the foreign exchange reserves, risk assessment, and risk mitigation of monetary policy instruments.

Péter Ökrös is Country Risk Manager of Hungary at Citi. He joined Citi in 1999 as a financial analyst and since that time has tracked all the different levels of the risk management organization. He has been Country Risk Manager for Hungary since 2007.

Csilla Szanyi has worked in risk management since 2011, specializing in central clearing-related risk management. Since 2021 she has been the CRO at KELER CCP, where she is responsible for the appropriateness of the risk management framework, including initial margin models, stress test models and default fund calibration, default management, and complying with relevant CCP regulations. Csilla also oversees capital markets and energy markets.