Steve Punch
Head of Financial Risk Management
KPMG in the Lower Gulf
Chartered accountant with 25 years’ experience in Australia, UK, Japan, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Worked for Citi, ANZ, UBS and Nomura. Before joining KPMG, Steve was a Director at UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong leading a regional ASPAC initiative covering 16 countries from Japan to India to Australia. He has also worked as an independent consultant to several other large global banks across Finance, Risk and Compliance initiatives Steve joined KPMG in 2011 in our Financial Risk Management practice. He is regular speaker at banking conferences and frequently contributes thought leadership to risk magazines, journals and newspapers. He has a particular interest in evolving banking regulation as a means to building stronger banking systems.