Dr Alexander Batchvarov is a managing director and Head of International Structured Finance research at Bank of America Global Research, and has held this role since he joined Merrill Lynch in 1998.

Based in London, his regular research publications include: European Structured Finance and Cross-Product Weekly, European Structured Finance – ABS, as well as the Annual Structured Finance and Covered Bond Market Reviews for Europe, Japan and Australia. His team often releases in-depth reports on sector and industry specific topics, and comments on salient regulatory issues for the SF & CB markets.

Batchvarov joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 1998 and in this time has also served as Head and co-Head of Global Mortgages and other Structured Finance between 2007 and 2010. Prior to this, Batchvarov worked in FIG at Citibank, New York and as a structured finance analyst and sovereign analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, New York.

Batchvarov has an MSc in Economics and International Economic Relations from the National Institute of Economics, Bulgaria, a PhD in Economics from the National Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, and an MBA from Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta, Canada. He is a CFA Charterholder and Member of AIMR and NYSSA. He speaks Bulgarian, Russian, French and Spanish.

Kevin has been a Partner at Clifford Chance since 1998 and is a member of the International Structured Debt Group. Since 1992 he has worked almost exclusively in structured finance especially securitisation. Kevin is identified in Legal 500 and Chambers as one of the leading practitioners in securitisation. He is on the board of directors of the Securitisation Division of AFME where he is a former vice chairman and is often engaged in discussions with regulators and quasi governmental advisory bodies on matters of industry importance. He is also a member of the Market Committee of Prime Collateralized Securities (PCS).

Paula is an Assistant Vice President - Analyst within Moody’s Investors Service Structured Finance Group, based in Madrid. Paula has more than 10 years of experience within structured finance and is currently a lead analyst in the EMEA consumer ABS new ratings team. 

Paula joined Moody’s in September 2013 in London where she was responsible for the monitoring of performance trends and publication of performance reports for a variety of structured finance asset classes within the EMEA and Latin America regions. She joined the EMEA consumer ABS new ratings team in February 2015, responsible for the assignment of new ratings to consumer ABS and RMBS transactions across all major European jurisdictions.

Prior to joining Moody’s Paula worked in a Forex and CFDs London based broker. Paula holds a MSc in Business Administration and a Masters in Banking, Finance and Insurance from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).

Antonio is a Vice President, Senior Credit Officer in Moody’s Structured Finance team in Madrid. Antonio’s responsibilities include the surveillance of EMEA RMBS and ABS, most particularly focusing on Spanish, Italian and South African jurisdictions. 

He has 15 years’ experience in credit rating analysis of European and South African ABS and RMBS, with special emphasis on securitization research. During his tenure at Moody’s, he has covered different asset classes (RMBS, SME ABS, Auto&Consumer ABS and NPLs) and jurisdictions across Europe. 

Antonio Tena joined Moody’s Investors Service in Madrid in 2005. Prior to joining Moody’s, Mr Tena worked as an Infrastructure Project Manager for a Spanish consultancy firm. Mr Tena holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a BA in Political Sciences