Alex is a cross-border securitisation and structured debt partner, based in London, with 20 years’ experience of market firsts in the performing and distressed financial asset markets. Alex is experienced in the monetisation of non-standard asset classes and financial assets considered more difficult to securitise or repo.

Alex is the Head of English law for the Linklaters Finance Division (comprising securitisation, derivatives, equity and debt capital markets, banking and leveraged finance, energy and infrastructure, financial regulation and regulatory capital, investment funds and real estate) and sits on the City of London Law Society’s Financial Law Committee.

Anne-Sophie advises a broad range of corporates and financial institutions on their strategic corporate finance transactions. She is a versatile finance lawyer, covering the full spectrum of finance, ranging from corporate lending, acquisition finance and real estate finance to the full suite of debt and hybrid capital market products as well as structured finance (including securitisations).

Anne-Sophie is highly valued by clients for her solution-oriented, hands-on approach and technical expertise.

She has been recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” in banking, finance, and capital markets for Belgium by The Legal500.

Ian Bell has worked in securitisation in various capacities since 1988, first as a lawyer and partner at Clifford Chance, then as general counsel and head of structured finance at Standard & Poor’s Europe and finally as CEO of PCS.

Independent expert in financial regulation, financial policy, sustainable finance, and corporate governance. Independent Board Member and Chair of Risk and Internal Control Committee in a public bank under ECB supervision. Chair of Paris Europlace European Financial Regulation Committee. Vice Chair of BIAC (Business at OECD) Finance Committee. Collaborating with thinktanks and industry associations in France, Europe and at the international level to promote effective regulation, sound risk management, efficient markets, ambitious ESG policies and financial stability.

Retired from BNP Paribas since January 2023, where she was most recently responsible for the definition of BNP Paribas responses to new regulations, with a focus on prudential, capital markets and ESG regulations. She was also in charge of the group's relationships with regulatory authorities, industry associations, and peers, as relates to financial regulation and policies.

With more than 40 years of experience in the banking sector, of which 30 at Paribas, then BNP Paribas, her career covered a wide range of responsibilities such as Head of Official Institutions Coverage, as well as Risk, Economic Capital, Credit Portfolio Management and Investor Relations functions.

Senior policy expert in global fixed income markets, credit rating industry & securitisation.

Barend Van Drooge is Deputy Head Credit & Insurance Linked Investments at PGGM. He joined PGGM in 2013. He has 11 years of experience in portfolio management and law, with a strong focus on securitisations and banking regulations. Van Drooge specialises in securitisation and banking regulations. He was previously a Corporate and Tax Lawyer in Singapore. He holds master’s degrees in finance and law and is a CFA charterholder.

Dr. Georges Duponcheele is a Senior Credit Portfolio Manager at Great Lakes Insurance SE (part of Munich RE). He teaches the Securitisation module for the Executive Master in Asset Management from University Paris-Dauphine PSL and Ensae Paris in partnership with Lefebvre Dalloz, and co-chairs the Paris Europlace Securitisation Committee Experts Subgroup on Prudential Regulation. Georges has co-written with William Perraudin and others numerous papers on the Basel and European securitisation frameworks that have helped shape regulatory thinking, including “Maturity Effects in Securitisation Capital: Total Capital Levels and Dispersion Across Tranches” (2013), “How to Revive the European Securitisation Market: a Proposal for a European SSFA” (2014), “Impact of the SA Output Floor on the European Securitisation Market” (2022), “Rethinking the Securitisation Risk Weight Floor” (2024), “European Competitiveness and Securitisation Regulations” (2024), “How to Calibrate Securitisation Capital Rules” (2025), and “Making the Bank Securitisation Capital Rules Work for Europe” (2025). He has also co-authored a paper with Ian Bell of PCS, Michael Bennett, Tamar Joulia-Paris, and Veronique Ormezzano, titled “Strengthening Financial Stability through Insurance-based Credit Risk Transfer” (2025), as well as a SUERF Policy Note on the same topic.

Rob was a founding partner of TwentyFour, where for 15 years he was a portfolio manager; managing the firm’s ABS business, its public ABS funds and institutional mandates, and was a member of the firm’s Asset Allocation Committee.

In late 2023 Rob retired from his full-time portfolio management role, but retains a consultant-advisory role within TwentyFour, focusing on industry outreach and advocacy, education and leadership.

Rob has traded ABS since their inception and is recognised as one of the market’s leading authorities on the asset class, receiving Global Capital’s Outstanding Contribution to Securitization award in 2021. He is also a pivotal member of several high level market initiatives and steering groups.

Beginning his career in 1986, Rob previously spent over 20 years at Barclays Capital (formerly BZW) in London as a fixed income trader covering a broad range of instruments, where he established and managed the floating rate credit trading unit and was Managing Director and Head of European ABS Trading.

After 10 years in the construction & manufacturing sectors, she joined banking to develop a modern risk management framework for the bank’s global lending, investment & trading books. This gradually included governance, risk appetite, risk and performance analytics, stress testing, credit trading, as well as capital & liquidity management solutions for retail, mortgages and corporate portfolios.

Tamar also served on EBA’ Consultative Panel in 2010, and as Board Member at the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM) from 2006 to 2011. She left banking mid-2011 to focus on her academic pursuits in enterprise risk and in credit portfolio management, as well as on senior risk advisory work to bank, insurance, asset management and fintech companies. She recently took an independent Board Member position at the Board of Directors of a bank in orderly resolution.

Tamar has authored many articles, and is a regular speaker at conferences in the US and Europe.

Rob Koning has been working for 40 years in the banking industry. Since 1994 he has been actively involved in securitisation, both in Europe and the US. As a Managing Director in Structured Finance at ABN AMRO Bank, Rob was responsible for the Dutch market as well as the global ABCP business line of the bank.

Shaun is Managing Director, Securitisation at AFME. Before that, he was MD, Head of European ABS at Santander CIB. He had several roles covering origination, structuring for funding and capital management. Before that he spent ten years at Fitch Ratings analysing Structured Credit, CDO Asset Managers and Performance Analytics. He began his career in HM Forces as a Captain in the Royal Armoured Corps. Shaun holds an MBA from Cranfield, attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and has a BA Joint Hons from Exeter University.

Leanne specialises in structured finance and derivatives with a particular focus on repackagings and credit-linked products. She has acted for investors and originators across multiple jurisdictions, advising on a wide range of repackagings and structured notes linked to a variety of asset classes, including loans, commodities and funds, as well as advising on many innovative and bespoke synthetic risk transfer structures. More recently, Leanne has been focussing on sustainable products, especially carbon, and credit-linked products, particularly synthetic securitisations and risk transfer transactions in all formats. She has a special interest in sustainable finance and its impact on capital relief transactions and securitised products more widely. Leanne has been engaged in a number of innovative initiatives, including holding the pen on the market documentation for the trading of verified carbon credits (VCC) for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), advising ISDA on sustainability-linked derivatives, establishing market leading carbon-linked SPV note issuance platforms and advising on bespoke carbon structured finance products. Based in the firm’s London office, Leanne has also been seconded at different times to the firm’s Dubai and Abu Dhabi offices.

Eirini Kanoni is a policy expert at the European Banking Authority (EBA). In her current role she focuses on securitisation related topics. Prior to joining the EBA, Eirini has held positions in the financial services industry mainly in the areas of securitisation and reporting.

Worked for CACIB securitization since 2018, was previously Deputy head of capital management at Credit Agricole s.a., in charge of pillar 2 methods and capital planning for 9 years, and previously at CACIB as responsible of pillar 2 methods for another 8 years. Beside the modeling and the management of capital requirements, he has been involved in discussions with regulatory authorities since Basel 2 reform on both capital treatments and securitization risk. Deeply involved in the Danish compromise for insurance subsidiaries in the 10’s, he is now involved in discussions around the new Danish compromise for securitization and hope to improve regulatory treatment of securitisation and develop European markets.