Dr. Torsten Schmidt

Within Group Risk Control (GRC), responsible for Operational Risk (OR)/ Counterparty Crisis Management (CCM) total team of 9 RC & Data Analytics specialists. In OR Management - OR Framework implementation, oversight of control deficiencies (CD) , risk appetite statement, RC self-assessments. Latest project: Firm-wide Tableau(c) based OR reporting & analytics solution. Firm-wide coordination of counterparty failures or country crisis - latest project: financial message screening environment review.

Business & Change Management for the Operations Risk Group (ORG) in UBS Investment Bank globally. Management of the (1) change portfolio for all risk measurement and management platforms (2) off-shored support team. Management of the annual self certification (SOX) for IB Operations.

Manage, maintain, review & improve current BCM framework across business streams – encompassing plans & procedures, communication channels, recovery site arrangements. - Continuously reinforce governance, awareness & preparedness through exercises & training. Initiate, plan and execute BCM tests, assess the results and mitigate risks according to BCM strategy & governance requirements. - Manage FED “out-of-region recovery ” programme, developed problem & credit crisis management framework

On-boarding of large mulitnational banks or corporates in Switzerland, Germany and Austria to UBS´ ETD offering including - client legal documentation process management - business process analysis and design from trading to clearing & settlement. Lead of the technical implementation projects connecting Front Office / Operations systems & reporting tools to client’s position management or settlement systems. Client relationship management - run common project organisation and steering

- Business strategy, project and budget planning for the online securities trading services within the online retail brokerage offering. - Product management, i.e. product development, planning and execution of marketing activities. - Contract management with trading partners for retail derivatives (securitized products). - Project manager for the delivery of an internalization trading platform for cash equities.

Analysis of the current / design of the future Operations business architecture for Equities and Investment Funds for maxblue Germany, Spain, Italy and UK.

Managing a team of five project managers defining the provision of financial services to B2B marketplaces. - vendor management, i.e. the setup of technology co-operations with B2B marketplace software providers (Oracle, Ariba). - product strategy development and definition for the setup of financial services in B2B marketplaces.

Global electronic trading infrastructure set-up including - centralized order management and middle-/back-ofice links (GL Trade / ClearVision ). - network, firewall and trading server design/sizing including system fault tolerance and BCM planning - conceptual design of internal & external global client access - team & project management for the implementation team

Support of the DTB/Eurex electronic trading systems and middle & back office feeds. - Implementation & support of the Xetra Equities electronic trading system and migration of the trading infrastructure to London. -Implementation of a position keeping system for the Frankfurt Liquidity desk and transfer of the DM Repo book from London to Frankfurt. - Support of a position keeping system for Fixed Income, Interest Rate Management & Liquidity. Management.

High energy synchrotron radiation triple crystal diffractometrie - Calculation of resolution functions, thermal diffuse scattering patterns and diffuse scattering patterns from dislocation loops and stacking faults in perfect silicon crystals and in-situ observation of defect growth