About Robert McWilliam

Robert is Founder & CEO of Kynec Ltd, a FinTech platform connecting firms to CCPs and Financial Markets Infrastructure enabling them to clear derivatives directly, and to offer client clearing services.
Robert has over 30 years banking experience at major European wholesale banks. He developed the Kynec platform working within the ING Innovation Lab. In 2010 he joined ING Bank to set up the CVA desk which under his leadership grew to cover the full suite of ‘XVAs’ including funding, liquidity, collateral optimisation and derivatives clearing.
Specialties include: CVA, DVA, FVA, MVA, XVA, Wrong-way risk, Collateral Management, SIMM, ISDA Documentation, Central Counterparties CCP, Clearing, Custody, Funding, Liquidity, LCR, Treasury, Regulatory Capital, Economic Capital, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Portfolio Management, Counterparty Risk.
Robert serves pro-bono as Chairman, PRMIA Global Board (Professional Risk Managers’ International Association) a 50,000+ member-led organization. He is author of the Counterparty Risk chapter of the Professional Risk Managers (PRM) Handbook.