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Global Risk Catalysts: Geopolitics and Transforming Markets

August 25, 2025 3:30 PM | Latin America Chapter | In-Person

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August 25, 2025
3:30 PM - 9:00 PM |

In-Person

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Mexico: Join us in examining the challenges and changes impacting risk professionals amid an increasingly volatile, fragmented, and technologically disruptive global landscape. This event will feature a keynote speaker and two separate roundtable discussions to address significant trends currently reshaping risk management across financial, technological, and geopolitical sectors.  

Our keynote speaker will share their perspectives on market developments in uncertain contexts. 

The first roundtable will examine geopolitics, global fragmentation, and financial risk, specifically: 

  • Shifts in the global order (e.g., US-China, Russia-West, Middle East) 
  • Sanctions, supply chains, operational and credit risk impacts 
  • Scenario analysis: wars, elections, cyber-conflicts, and disruptions 
  • Incorporation of geopolitics into risk management frameworks 

The second roundtable will cover risk and liquidity models amid uncertainty, focusing on: 

  • AI in liquidity risk management (anomaly detection, predictive analytics, portfolio optimization) 
  • Model monitoring and governance 
  • Liquidity challenges in recent crises (SVB, Credit Suisse), and asset vulnerability 
  • The regulatory role during rapid innovation 

This meeting will be hosted in Spanish.

Registration is required as seats are limited. Priority will be given to GARP Individual Members.

Agenda:

  • 3:30 – 4:00 pm: Registration 
  • 4:10 – 4:15 pm: Welcoming remarks 
  • 4:15 – 5:00 pm: Keynote
  • 5:00 – 6:00 pm: First Roundtable Discussion (Abraham Izquierdo, Antonio Sierra, Jacobo Perez, Ludovic Lelegard)
  • 6:00 – 7:00 pm: Second Roundtable Discussion (Maritza Lara Aguillón, Mirian Diaz, Ana Paula Montano, Conrado Camacho, Francisco Gonzalez)
  • 7:00 – 9:30 pm: Networking reception

Topics: Market, Geopolitical, Financial Markets

Speakers

Antonio Sierra, FRM

Antonio Sierra, FRM

Principal Consultant, TCM Partners
Antonio Sierra, FRM

Antonio Sierra, FRM

Principal Consultant, TCM Partners

A specialist in financial accounting, banking technology, and risk management, Antonio Sierra brings over 20 years of experience driving digitalization initiatives and the adoption of financial technology in the banking sector. He currently serves as a Principal Consultant at a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of advanced technological solutions for banks across Latin America. He has led digital transformation projects, modernization of financial markets, and the strengthening of risk management frameworks in more than 20 financial institutions across Europe and Latin America, including Mexico, Colombia, Chile, France, Portugal, and Spain. His approach combines deep technical expertise in banking solutions with a strategic vision focused on business performance, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

Miriam Díaz, FRM

Miriam Díaz, FRM

Principal Consultant & Delivery Manager, TCM Partners
Miriam Díaz, FRM

Miriam Díaz, FRM

Principal Consultant & Delivery Manager, TCM Partners

Miriam Díaz is a specialist in Treasury, Capital Markets, and Financial Risk Management with over 20 years of experience in financial institutions and consulting. She is currently a partner at TCMpartners, where she leads projects that enable financial institutions to strengthen their technological infrastructure and comply with local and international regulations.

She began her career at the Bank of Mexico, participating in public sector financial planning and national financial market analysis with a focus on pension funds and public debt auctions. She later collaborated in the economic research area at Citibanamex, contributing to debt analysis and treasury strategies.

Francisco Gonzalez, FRM

Francisco Gonzalez, FRM

Director, Valmer
Francisco Gonzalez, FRM

Francisco Gonzalez, FRM

Director, Valmer

He holds a degree in actuarial science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a master's degree in financial engineering from WorldQuant University. He currently serves as director at Valmer, a Mexican Stock Exchange Group company specializing in financial instrument valuation and risk analysis. With more than a decade of experience, he has led the design and implementation of advanced methodologies for financial risk management, including market, credit, and liquidity risk. Throughout his career, he has spearheaded key projects in the development of valuation models, regulatory compliance, and strengthening of the financial infrastructure in Mexico. His approach combines technical rigor with a strategic vision for decision-making in complex financial environments. Outside of work, Francisco is passionate about running and is about to complete his fourth marathon. He is also a proud leader of the LGBT+ community within the BMV Group, actively promoting inclusion and diversity in the financial sector.

Jacobo Peréz, FRM

Market & Treasury Risk Director, Banamex
Jorge Alegría

Jorge Alegría

CEO, BMV (Bolsa de Valores de México)
Conrado Camacho, FRM

Conrado Camacho, FRM

Financial Risk Manager, MELI
Conrado Camacho, FRM

Conrado Camacho, FRM

Financial Risk Manager, MELI

Conrado Camacho is a market and liquidity risk specialist with over 15 years of experience in financial risk management. He currently leads the Market and Liquidity Risk functions at Mercado Libre Mexico. Throughout his career, he has played a key role in three banking authorization processes in Mexico, collaborating with institutions such as Mizuho Bank, Nu Bank, and Mercado Libre. He has been internationally certified as a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) since 2020 and holds a master's degree in Risk Management, which supports his solid technical and strategic training in the financial sector.

Ana Paula Montaño

Ana Paula Montaño

CRO Asset Management, HSBC
Ana Paula Montaño

Ana Paula Montaño

CRO Asset Management, HSBC

Ana is an expert in financial risk management with more than 18 years of experience in risk management, financial analysis, and the development of investment management solutions. She currently serves as Chief Risk Office for Mexico and Latin America at HSBC Asset Management Global. She has held leadership positions in asset management companies such as SURA and BNP Paribas, where he designed and led risk management strategies and implemented technological solutions for decision-making. Ana Paula Montaño holds the CFA® and FRM certifications and holds a Master's degree in Financial Mathematics.

Ludovic Lelegard, FRM

Head of Traded Risk Analytics and FCR Analytics | Global Risk Analytics, HSBC Bank Canada

Moderators

Abraham Mohamed Izquierdo Garcia, FRM

Abraham Mohamed Izquierdo Garcia, FRM

Managing Director Traded & Treasury Risks, Grupo Financiero Banorte Mexico
Abraham Mohamed Izquierdo Garcia, FRM

Abraham Mohamed Izquierdo Garcia, FRM

Managing Director Traded & Treasury Risks, Grupo Financiero Banorte Mexico

Abraham educational background comprises the GARP Financial Risk Manager certification, the Moody’s Commercial Credit certificate, a PLD program from Harvard Business School, but also, an MSc in risk, MSc in finance, and the financial management MBA from one of the most prestigious universities in Mexico, better known as ITAM. He is also a Cornell Johnson School of Business & Queens Smith School of Business MBA.

Currently, Abraham is the managing director of trading & treasury risks at Grupo Financiero Banorte, where he has under authority the balance sheet oversight & modelling, including policy compliance hedging strategies & interest rate risk management. In a similar fashion, he is in charge of the liquidity risk framework & the Basel III directive. Abraham M Izquierdo is also responsible for the Grupo Financiero Banorte’s capital management, allocation, optimization & surveillance (including CET1, CAR, Stress Testing & ICAAP). In the trading book sideline, he is the head for market & counterparty risks, including the valuation and implementation of financial products & derivatives, whthin the Banorte’s capital markets transformation program. He has also been in charge of the XVAs framework & Derivatives Committee introduction at Banorte. As of now, two relevant initiatives he is leading at Grupo Financiero Banorte are: the Basel IV & LIBOR/TIIE transition implementation.

Maritza Lara Aguillón

Maritza Lara Aguillón

Director of Treasury, Bankaool
Maritza Lara Aguillón

Maritza Lara Aguillón

Director of Treasury, Bankaool

Maritza Lara Aguillón currently serves as Director of Treasury at Bankaool, a fintech-focused financial institution, where she leads the funding, liquidity, and investment strategy. Her responsibilities include designing financial products, structuring issuances, managing relationships with institutional counterparties, and implementing technological tools to strengthen the treasury function in a highly regulated and competitive environment.

During her time at the Treasury Department of the National Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext), she successfully managed bond issues, hedging strategies, and ESG-focused investment projects, including the country's first sustainable bond issue.

She has also developed her career at Afore Azteca, as well as at Deutsche Bank and The Bank of New York Mellon, two of the most recognized financial institutions globally, strengthening her experience in capital markets, derivatives, and fiduciary management.

Chapter Directors

Andre Costa
Founder Director, Free Enterprise Advisors, Brazil

Luis Cachay Huaman
Corporate Manager, Non-Financial Risk Banco Santander Peru, Peru

Abraham Mohamed Izquierdo Garcia
Managing Director Traded & Treasury Risks, Grupo Financiero Banorte, Mexico

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