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- Global Regulatory Policy & Advisory (‘GRPA’) is responsible for establishing clients Group level, and certain regional level, prudential regulatory capital policies, and for advising business lines on the impact of these policies on transactions and new products.
- GRPA acts as a Second Line of Défense and provides technical regulatory capital support and guidance to functions and businesses on a full range of transactions and prudential regulatory capital issues, including the establishment of interpretations and governance processes to mitigate regulatory risk.
- GRPA also monitors new rule developments and other ongoing changes to the prudential regulatory capital landscape.
- GRPA covers key aspects of prudential policy, including risk weighted assets (RWAs), capital resources, Liquidity ratios, and leverage ratios, across all relevant risk areas e.g. credit risk, counterparty credit risk, securitization, market risk, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Track new policy developments and formulate regulatory capital policies, accordingly, providing detailed, actionable guidance, distributed to a wide range of stakeholders. The US GRPA team is responsible for monitoring new developments impacting the US prudential regulatory capital regime, as administered by the US Agencies - the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC.
- Produce and review regulatory opinions on complex transactions and new products to ensure compliance with Group regulatory policies.
- Provide technical support and guidance to internal colleagues across all businesses and functions.
- Provide technical support on the implementation of new regulatory requirements.
- Drive response to future regulatory developments and influence the external development of regulatory policy by writing public responses to new proposed standards and discussion papers.
- The Market Risk Regulatory Policy Manager will be responsible for leading on the development of a full library of policy interpretations which lay out approach to aspects of the US FRTB rules which may be silent or ambiguous.
Experience:
- 5+ years related experience required.
Skills:
- Strong technical working knowledge of the prudential regulatory capital rules relating to the calculation of regulatory capital resources, RWAs, and the leverage ratio, with an emphasis on Market Risk RWAs and Market Risk Covered Positions.
- This includes technical subject matter expertise on key components of the Standardized Measure for Market Risk under US FRTB, including the Sensitives-Based Method, Standardized Default Risk, Residual Risk Add-on, Fallback Capital Requirement, Capital Add-on for Redesignations, and any Additional Supervisory Capital Requirements.
- Knowledge of these concepts under US (Fed / OCC / FDIC) rules is essential. Knowledge of these concepts under Basel / BCBS rules, and under UK / PRA rules is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of the historical / existing Market Risk capital framework under US, BCBS, and/or PRA rules is also desirable;
Education:
- High school diploma or bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
