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The interactions between risk management and technology

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May 09, 2008

Interactions between Risk Management and Technology

Dilip Krishna is the director of Teradata's Enterprise Risk Management and Capital Markets practice in the Americas. He and his team support Teradata's financial customers including banks, insurance companies and investment banks.

Krishna joined Teradata in 2004. Prior to Teradata, he had 15 years of experience in technology and business consulting, especially in the securities business. He also brings a significant experience in the successful management of large-scale projects.

At Teradata, he and his team have consulted on risk management initiatives with several large financial corporations in the Americas and Europe. In addition, they have been involved with numerous implementations of risk management programs to meet the Basel II Accord requirements for banks.

Immediately before joining Teradata, he held the role of chief architect of the Basel II program at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Krishna has been responsible for several implementations of risk management and trading solutions across a variety of banks, dealing with for diverse financial products including fixed income instruments, interest rate derivatives and funding products for major global institutions as well as internet-based trading platforms for fixed-income products.

Krishna has authored numerous articles and whitepapers on risk data architecture, implementations and information management. He is also a contributing author to Frontiers in Risk Management. He has also spoken on this topic in a range of professional associations dealing with risk management. Krishna has an extensive and varied educational background including Chartered Financial Analyst designations, as well as graduate and post-graduate engineering degrees from the Ohio State University and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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