III Annual Risk Conference · JAR 2025 · September 17, 18 and 19, 2025
Building a strategic view of risks in a disruptive global environment
Day 1
September 17, 20252:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Attendee Registration
3:00 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.
Welcome Address
- Carlos J. Rijo M.Founder / Current President of the CGRRD
Opening Keynotes
3:10 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Presentation
Banking facing the Fintech challenge: risks, regulation and supervision
Expert
- Juan Ernesto CurutchetSuperintendent of Financial and Exchange Entities at the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA)
3:50 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Presentation
Operational Resilience in the Peruvian financial system: Operational Risk outlook in the age of digitalization
Expert
- Oscar BassoDeputy Superintendent of Risk at the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFPs of Peru
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Break / Coffee Break / Networking
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Thematic Block: Economy, Markets and Sovereign Risk
- Presentation (Virtual / English):
- Sovereign credit profile of the Dominican Republic: Opportunities and challenges after the upgrade to Ba2
- Panel of Economists and Market Analysts:
- a) Monetary and financial expectations in LATAM and the Dominican Republic given US policy
- b) Exchange rates and interest rates, evolution and impact on the country’s productive activity
- c) Financial conditions, market volatility and fiscal outlook
- d) Considerations for risk management and impact on financial exposures
Speaker
- William FosterSenior Vice President, Sovereign Risk Group at Moody’s Ratings
- Economic and market outlook.Key aspects for risk management
Panelists
- Bernardo FuentesVice President of Economic Studies at Banco BHD
- Jesse RogersChief Economist for LATAM at Moody’s Analytics
- Richard MedinaPartner-Director at WCG
- Wayne CamardFounding Partner of The Wayne Camard Group
Moderator
- Stefan BoltaDirector of the Economic Studies Department at the Superintendency of Banks
6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Inaugural Cocktail / Networking
Day 2
September 18, 2025Thematic Block: Third-Party Risk Management
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Presentation
Third-party risk: Toward preventive and strategic management in line with business continuity
- Expert Panel:
- a) Tools to identify and classify critical suppliers, assess impact on the value chain and methods to prioritize controls.
- b) Initial assessment criteria (financial, operational, reputational), inclusion of ESG and cybersecurity clauses in selection processes.
- c) Establishing key risk indicators (KRIs), real-time monitoring systems and action plans for deviations.
- d) Integrating third-party disruption scenarios into continuity plans, joint stress tests and shared recovery mechanisms.
Speaker
- Carlos Suárez FernándezPartner in charge of the global third-party risk practice at Management Solutions
- Third-party management:Strategic interdependence and resilience with critical suppliers
Panelists
- Claudia Salas CuberoGeneral Director of Risk at Banco Nacional de Costa Rica
- Federico MullerCountry Manager, Microsoft Dominicana
- Diego LaverdeArea Vice President of Information Security at Banco Popular Dominicano
- Edwin Orrico M.Senior Manager, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Resilience practice leader at PwC Interaméricas
Moderator
- Carlos Suárez FernándezPartner in charge of the global third-party risk practice at Management Solutions
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Presentation
Business Continuity Management: Your best ally when mitigating the impact on your operations
Expert
- Mariana QuirósDirector of Business Continuity at Copa Airlines
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Break / Coffee Break / Networking
Thematic Block: Cybersecurity
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presentation
Cyber risk in payment systems and financial market infrastructures. Challenges and lessons learned
Speaker
- Eduardo Tejeda-DomínguezDeputy Manager of Assessment and Monitoring in the Payment Systems and Market Infrastructures Policy and Studies Directorate at Banco de México
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Presentation: Preparing for Cyberattacks with Crisis Simulations
Speaker
- Pavel Solís MontesSenior Economist, Financial Stability Directorate at Banco de México
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Presentation
Cyber risk considerations in financial information management
Speaker
- Fernando Ávila EmbrizDirector of Financial System Information at Banco de México
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch / Networking
Thematic Block: ESG / Climate Risks
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Presentation
Climate risk quantification and its impact on the financial system: Progress, challenges and applications for supervision.
Speaker
- Juan Carlos Salinas, CFA. FRMPrincipal Analyst, Economic Research Department, Superintendency of Banks of Peru (SBS)
Presentation: Assessment of exposure to physical climate risk and supervision of financial institutions. Brazil case.
Speaker
Fernando de Menezes Linardi, PhD - Advisor, Systemic Risk Division, Central Bank of Brazil
Expert Panel (English):
From quantification models to climate risk supervision frameworks. Strategies and expectations
a) Discussion of climate stress methodologies (physical and transition), choice of time horizons and macroeconomic assumptions.
b) Challenges in building reliable climate databases, use of proxies and progress in standardizing ESG metrics.
c) How to incorporate results of climate analyses into stress tests, regulatory capital and risk governance requirements.
d) Experiences from regulatory pilots, coordination among central banks, supervisors and financial institutions, and ways to strengthen continuous reporting and monitoring.
Panelists:
Juan Carlos Salinas, CFA. FRM - Principal Analyst, Economic Research Department, Superintendency of Banks of Peru (SBS)
Fernando de Menezes Linardi, PhD - Cross-cutting Intelligence for Sustainability, Central Bank of Brazil
Moderator:
Juan Quiñones Wu - Economist, Executive Secretariat of the Central American Monetary Council (SECMCA)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Presentation
How to make decisions in a VUCA environment: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.
Speaker
- Gustavo I. Méndez NarváezLead Partner of the Financial Services Industry at Deloitte Spanish Latin America and Leader of the Financial Transformation Area
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Break / Coffee Break / Networking
Thematic Block: Artificial Intelligence
4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Presentation
Portfolio optimization methodologies: Portfolio dynamics and causality, using automatic differentiation in neural networks.
Speaker
- Alejandro Rodríguez DomínguezDirector of Quantitative Analysis and Artificial Intelligence at Miralta Bank
4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Presentation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation and risk management: A new framework for innovation in the Financial System
Speaker
- Omar Bairán GarcíaSenior Vice President of Legal Advisory and Regulatory Compliance at Banco Santa Cruz
5:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Presentation
Multimodal Finance: A framework for cross-modal financial analysis and decision-making
Speaker
- Miquel Noguer AlonsoCo-Founder & Chief Science Officer, Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute – AIFI
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Closing / Networking
Day 3
September 19, 20259:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Keynote
Speaker
- Alejandro Fernández W.Superintendent of Banks of the Dominican Republic
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Presentation
Interest rate risk in the banking book: Challenges and opportunities for its management
Speaker
- Cristina PailhéConsultant specialized in banking regulation and supervision and financial inclusion
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Break / Coffee Break / Networking
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Presentation
Data analytics models in risk management. Impact on corporate strategy
Speaker
- Allan Calderón MoyaCorporate Vice President of the Cooperativa Nacional de Educadores COOPENAE
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Presentation
Relative and absolute risk management in a changing market. Market and liquidity risks
Speaker
- Andrés Felipe Manrique, FRMVice President of Risk LATAM at Skandia Colombia
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch / Networking
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Presentation
Artificial Intelligence in Collections solutions
- Samantha Manzo Villaseñor
- Business development director for pfsTech Dominican Republic and Mexico
Speaker
2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Regional Panel
CRO Agenda: Integrated risk management strategies in a changing and uncertain environment”.
- a) Risk outlook and how it impacts strategic objectives.
- b) Evolution of new emerging risks, their monitoring, supervision and regulation.
- c) Risk quantification, implementation of international standards and their viability in Latin American countries.
Panelists
- Alejandro TizzoniExecutive Vice President - Integrated Risk Management at Bladex
- Gabriel Chamo MolinaVP of Economic Intelligence at Banco Industrial
Moderator
- Gianni Landolfi MoyaSenior Vice President of Integrated Risk at Banco Múltiple Promerica de la República Dominicana
3:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Break / Coffee Break / Networking
Thematic Block: Market Risk (Valuation, quantification, portfolio management)
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Presentation
The price of risk, perspectives
Speaker
- Yann NetoFounder, Meridian Training Ltd - Expert in Cross-Asset Management and Risk Strategy
Expert Panel:
Implementation of fair value (mark to market) on investment portfolio instruments in the Dominican Republic. Opportunities and challenges for the Dominican financial sector
a) Availability of observable prices in the Dominican market, increasing use of unobservable inputs for public and private debt securities, and modeling techniques when market transactions are lacking.
b) Impact of fair value changes on equity and regulatory capital of banks and pension funds; recognition of changes in profit or loss versus equity, and their effect on sector solvency.
Panelists:
Yamileh García - Executive Director at Primma Advisors
Yann Neto - Founder, Meridian Training Ltd - Expert in Cross-Asset Management and Risk Strategy
Victor Reyes, CFA, CAIA - Capital Markets Expert Consultant
Manuel Martínez - Senior Vice President of Treasury and International Business at Banco Santa Cruz
Moderator:
Enmanuel Cedeño Brea, PhD - General Advisor / Technical Coordinator, Superintendency of Banks of the Dominican Republic
5:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Closing Cocktail / Networking
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