Meet Your Expert Programme Director

Martin Davies is a Principal Consultant – Risk Based Banking SMEs and a Managing Partner within the business solutions competency at Causal Capital. He specialises in designing risk measurement and management systems with a particular focus on regulatory capital frameworks. He has more than 10 years experience developing bespoke knowledge/workflow and scorecard solutions for financial institutions in both strategic and processing areas of the business.

At the Commonwealth Bank of Australia he contributed to the risk programme by running the demarcation project for measuring arbitrage between credit and operational risk and a recent engagement saw him with group risk at Suncorp Metway, where he was pioneering the design of the AMA capital framework. Currently he specialises in developing risk solutions and works with loss data, control assessments, indicator systems and scenario analysis, with a particular focus on banking processes, systems and products.

Martin heads up the company as the Managing Director and he is also the lead designer for the Causal Capital risk product suite which involves the delivery and alignment of risk solutions to the local banking community across South East Asia. His current ongoing project is running a capital market feasibility study for a stock exchange in an Islamic country, assisting the exchange construct a new energy risk instrument. The project will take in the full end-to-end cap and trade cycle as well as the economic factors that affect the market as a whole. This is an exciting piece of work which touches many diverse facets of merchant banking, lending and government based policy. It is a big credit to Martin’s dedicated ongoing research in capital markets, risk and the banking community as a whole.