Shifts. Shocks. Signals.
A Moody's credit read for global banking.
The forces reshaping global finance don't land the same way in every market. What does it mean for UK banks, the global banks operating from here and the regulators setting the rules?
The agenda:
- Geopolitics and macro shifts
- Pam Kaur, CFO of HSBC, on what's next for global banking
- AI as a credit factor
- David Bailey, Executive Director, Prudential Policy at the Bank of England, on capital and competition
Half a day. The whole picture.
Speakers
Stephen Long
Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Banking
Moody's Ratings
Simon Ainsworth
Associate Managing Director, Financial Institutions
Moody's Ratings
Edoardo Calandro
Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Financial Institutions
Moody's Ratings
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EC2V 7QR London
United Kingdom
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Stephen is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of banking. He is co-responsible for global bank ratings and is based in London where he primarily focuses on banks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
From 2022-2025 he was the Managing Director and Regional Head of EMEA, Stephen also served as the Country Manager for the United Kingdom for Moody’s Ratings. He was responsible for core business strategy, governance and oversight in the EMEA region.
Before relocating to London, Stephen held the position as Global Co-Head of Banking from 2010 to 2022, based in Hong Kong. In this role, he was responsible for global bank ratings with a primary focus on banks across the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Stephen worked at J.P. Morgan in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong in various senior credit, research and rating advisory positions. From 1990-1996 he was a bank analyst at S&P Global in London and Paris.
Stephen began his career as a banking regulator at the Bank of England. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Simon Ainsworth, who is based in London, is an Associate Managing Director responsible for the analytical teams maintaining ratings on Nordic and Baltic banks and on a range of European insurance companies.
Simon previously served as a Group Credit Officer. In that role he carried responsibility for monitoring ratings quality as well as assisting in the development and implementation of rating methodologies and practices applied to rated financial institutions within the EMEA region.
Simon joined Moody’s in March 2014 following sixteen years at the Bank of England.
At the Bank, he worked in a variety of roles primarily in its financial markets and banking operation divisions; as well as working on a variety of financial risk and crisis related issues. This included the resolution of failed banks, as well as responsibility for the risk management framework applied to collateral accepted in the Bank’s sterling market operations.Simon graduated from the University of Durham in 1998, having studied Economics and Politics. He is based in London.
Edoardo Calandro is a member of Moody’s EMEA Banking Team based in London, with lead responsibilities for a portfolio of banks headquartered in the UK.
Since joining Moody’s in 2008, Edoardo worked on banks’ ratings and research; prior to his current focus on UK banks, he held lead responsibilities for Italian and Turkish bank ratings.
Edoardo holds a bachelor’s degree in management and a master’s degree in finance and accounting from Bocconi University in Milan.