Financial Stability Institute

and the

Committee of Banking Supervisors of West and Central Africa

Risk-focused Supervision, Problem Bank Resolution, and Corporate Governance

Khartoum, Sudan, 8 - 12 April 2002

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS

Jean-Philippe Svoronos

Member of the Secretariat

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Mr Jean-Philippe Svoronos is the secretary for three different working groups. They include one of the working groups for revising the Capital Accord in charge of the Standardised Approach, the Electronic Banking Group and the Joint Forum’s working group that focused on comparing risk management and capital frameworks between the insurance, the banking and the securities sector. Mr Svoronos has been with the Secretariat since February 2000 and is on secondment from the Bank of France.

Mr Svoronos joined the Bank of France in February 1990 and has worked in the banking supervision area (Commission Bancaire) as a field officer for investment banks, as deputy head of large international banks Division and as head of Foreign Banks Division. He also worked for one of the largest international French banks from 1996 to 1998 as a financial engineer before returning to Bank of France as head of research and banking supervision of one of its main branches.

Mr Svoronos has a degree in law from the University of Paris-Nanterre and has graduated from the Political Science Institute of Paris (Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris).

Mike Trigg

Group Head of Investigations

Standard Chartered Bank

 Mr Trigg is the Group Head of Investigations for Standard Chartered Bank (SCB).  He also acts as the Bank’s Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer under the FSA’s Approved Persons regime, and manages reputational risk issues and relationships with regulators.  SCB has some 30,000 employees and operates in over fifty countries offering a full range of financial services. 

Mr Trigg has over twenty years experience in government and the private sector managing complex fraud, money laundering, regulatory, and corporate governance related projects. 

He joined SCB from the forensic accounting practice of Deloitte and Touche, before which he was a Senior Investigation Officer with the UK government and a founder member of the UK’s National Criminal Intelligence Service. 

Mike holds a Masters degree in Financial Services Regulation and is a Certified Fraud Examiner.

W. Jason George

Senior Financial Sector Specialist

Financial Stability Institute

Mr. Jason George joined the Financial Stability Institute (FSI) as a Senior Financial Sector Specialist in August 2001. With broad experience in banking supervision issues, Mr. George is primarily responsible for disseminating guidance on sound practices for effective banking supervision, providing first-hand knowledge and experience on banking and banking supervision practices, market developments, and risk management processes through the various FSI courses and seminars.

Mr. George joined the FSI from Thailand, where, in the wake of the Asian crisis, he served as an IMF advisor to the Bank of Thailand. He worked at the Bank of Thailand, helping to develop and implement sound policies, procedures, and practices covering all facets of banking supervision. In particular, he assisted in the development of – and worked on issues relating to a new banking law and regulations, accounting rules, an examiner training school, risk-focused onsite and offsite examination procedures, and the capital accord and capital-related instruments. Prior to his time in Thailand and in response to the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, Mr. George spent several years at the National Bank of Croatia assisting in the development of their supervisory function.

Mr. George’s regulatory background is from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the U.S. where he supervised a large portfolio of financial institutions in California. In addition, he played an important role in the resolution of 4 out of the 5 largest bank failures in U.S. history and directed capital markets supervisory activities in the western U.S.