Orlando Fernandez

Senior Technical Specialist, Governance & Remuneration Team, Prudential Policy Directorate at PRA / BANK OF ENGLAND

Speaker

Orlando Fernandez is a Senior Technical Specialist in the Governance & Remuneration team in the Bank of England/ PRA Prudential Policy Directorate. He joined the (at the time) FSA in 2011 and has been leading the development of the PRA’s Policy on the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) since its inception in 2013. He has also represented the PRA in the development of a range of European and international standards on governance and fitness and propriety at the BCBS, EBA and FSB and worked with financial overseas regulators in the implementation of accountability regimes inspired the UK SM&CR. More recently, Orlando has been focusing on outsourcing, in particular to the Cloud and the impact of technology on firms’ governance. He represented the PRA at the EBA expert group which developed the 2019 Outsourcing Guidelines. Orlando has a Master of Laws from the University of Nottingham in the UK