Emre Balta
Chief Model Risk Officer, First Citizens
Emre Balta PhD is leading the global model risk management practice. Emre is a risk analytics leader with extensive experience in quantitative approaches risk management regulatory compliance and strategy in financial services. He is a subject matter expert in end-to-end risk analytics and methodologies from identifying business problems acquiring and managing data formulation calibration implementation documentation validation backtesting of models. Prior to Genpact he was a validation executive at U.S. Bank a principal at Oliver Wyman and a senior financial economist at the OCC.
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THE EVOLVING ROLE OF THE CHIEF MODEL RISK OFFICER – KEYNOTE PANEL
What the next five years will look like for the CMRO
Strategic leadership at the intersection of regulation, innovation, and enterprise risk
- Balancing regulatory expectations with enterprise-wide strategic impact
- Communicating model risk to executive leadership and the board
- Preparing for thematic reviews, cross-border divergence, and AI-specific oversight
- Building high-performing teams and attracting scarce quant/AI talent
- Leveraging digital tools and RegTech to enhance model risk management
- Embedding model risk into broader risk, resilience, and business decision-making