Rodney Sunada-Wong Leaders
An experienced Risk Manager, expert in setting up governance for Digital Assets, Banking and Trading activities to help achieve profitability objectives, optimize risk-taking, and manage regulatory expectations.
DIGITAL ASSETS:
- DeFi, CeFi, Institutional Lending, Retail Lending
TRADING:
- Broker Dealers, Swap Dealers
- Equity, Fixed Income and Commodity Derivatives
BANKING:
- Start-up Banks and Industrial Loan Company ("ILC")
- Asset Liability Management, Deposit Pricing, Investment Portfolios -- MBS, ABS
- Wealth Management Products - Jumbo & Conforming Whole Loan Mortgages, Asset-Based Lending
I enter into new situations to help businesses achieve profitability objectives while optimizing risk-taking, and managing regulators’ expectations.
I was brought as CRO in to a digital asset startup with significant troubles to transform governance; worked with CEO to create new functional groups, bring in key senior personnel, establish governance committees and working groups to implement urgent projects.
As CRO, I recruited and trained the team that implemented risk governance for Morgan Stanley's Broker Dealer / Futures Commission Merchant / Derivatives Swap Dealers. Working closely with businesses and functional groups, we reduced peak regulatory risk capital requirements by >25% for a $300+Bn Broker Dealer without impacting profitability targets.
In the past, I created new risk governance to enable Morgan Stanley's Wealth Management Division to roll out new products, and partnered with Treasury to create the Deposit Pricing model for $100+Bn FDIC-insured Banks ("ILC"). We transformed the balance sheet, increased ROA >1% AND reduced Interest Rate Risk of the Banking Book.
At Merrill Lynch, I created the market risk framework for its start-up banks ("ILC") to meet regulatory expectations, and enable converting $80bn of client brokerage cash into bank deposits.
I enjoy teaching Master’s level Finance classes at both Columbia University and at NYU, and serving on the Advisory Boards for GARP's New York Chapter, and for Risk USA. I also help guide asset allocation for the Endowment Fund for the Alumni Foundation of the Bronx High School of Science.
