Manuel Lopez

Managing Director, Global Bank Surety Syndication Leader, Marsh

_{Manuel heads the Global Bank Surety Syndication desk; he structures innovative regulatory-compliant deals enabling banks to share risks with the specialist insurance markets thereby enhancing the banks’ risk appetite, obtaining limit and regulatory capital relief. Through these structures insurers obtain access to new real-economy deal flow, previously unavailable, while corporates diversify their financing sources. In addition, he advises banks on implementing insurance-related risk- distribution channels leveraging his specific technical expertise gained in his previous position as Global Head of Insurance Solutions, Syndication, WestLB AG (specialized in project and structured finance), London ranking at the time as one of the five largest buyers of risk insurance. Manuel spent several decades in international banking covering senior roles in Risk Management, Trade Finance, Corporate Banking, Financial Institutions at Deutsche Bank and WestLB. He speaks Spanish, German, Italian and English as he lived and worked in these countries. He represents Marsh at various bank associations and is a regular speaker in sector-specific conferences.}