Elena Foley

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ABOUT ELENA FOLEY

Seasoned risk professional with an expertise in financial institutions, capital markets, and counterparty risk. Strong understanding of traded products, including OTC and cleared derivatives, securities lending, repo financing, and prime brokerage. Comfortable using market risk factors to understand credit exposure and make decisions in regards to the appropriateness of a given transaction. Key Skills & Competencies:* Financial institutions: banks, broker-dealers, CCPs, financial market utilities, hedge funds* Financial analysis and modeling* Equity, FX, metals, interest rate, and credit derivatives * Standard industry trading documentation (ISDA, GMSLA, and GMRA)* Risk Management* International Capital MarketsCollaborative decision-maker, vested with ad persona credit authority. Understands how to work with first line business partners in regards to structuring and reviewing transactions while retaining appropriate risk mitigation.Actively participated in new business review and associated working groups and committees. Coordinated with the various risk verticals (including Market Risk Control, Methodology, and Treasury Risk) to assess new business initiatives and review adequacy of existing and proposed PD and LGD models and credit exposure measurement methodologies.Formally credit trained, with a deep understanding of fundamental credit analysis. Active participant in the development of internal PD models for banks, broker-dealers, and retail aggregators. Participated in actual and simulated crisis scenarios involving counterparty default.