Operational resilience towards a global alignment

Author's Biography

Alda Bida is the Operational Resilience Manager for BGC Group, GFI Group and Cantor Fitzgerald Europe. She is responsible for designing, embedding and maintaining a robust enterprise risk and resilience framework across the group, in order to deliver the effective assessment, monitoring and reporting of risks and resilience. Her responsibilities include but are not limited to ensuring that risks relating to resilience, outsourcing, business continuity management, ICT and information security, are identified and tracked, and that the resulting remediation is implemented effectively. Alda has more than ten years’ experience across enterprise risk, operational risk, credit and market risk in the financial services industry.

Rupesh Nathoo is the Business Risk and Controls Manager at BGC Group, where he is responsible for implementing and maintaining a robust risk control framework across the entire organisation. He oversees the risk control self-assessment, risk event management and controls assurance processes. He maintains a consistent operations resilience framework by closely monitoring and reporting on the firm’s important business services, associated risks and operational effectiveness. Rupesh has gained extensive experience over the past 20 years working at leading global banking firms.