Meet the Team

The team combines the 3 key perspectives and areas of expertise to optimise how a client should best think about XVA.  1) Client side perspective (Jasper) 2) Sellside impact (Andrew)  3) Product & Regulatory expertise (Stephen)

Andrew French

Executive Director

ex-JPMorgan

Experienced Fixed Income Derivative Professional

  • Covered Supranationals
  • Frequent borrowers
  • Fixed Income specilaist
Jasper Livingsmith

ex EBRD

  • Highly experienced derivatives and XVA practitioner with a strong background at leading global investment banks.
  • Extensive hands-on experience in counterparty credit risk and valuation adjustment methodologies, including CVA and FVA.
  • Worked closely with trading desks, quantitative teams and risk functions to embed XVA into pricing, risk management and portfolio optimisation.
  • Deep practical understanding of OTC derivatives across rates, FX and structured products.
  • Significant experience with model development, validation, governance and regulatory engagement.
  • Proven ability to translate complex quantitative concepts into robust, implementable frameworks within large banking environments.
  • Well regarded for rigorous analysis, sound judgement and pragmatic delivery in high-stakes risk settings.
Stephen Nurse

Executive Director

ex JPMorgan

  • Highly experienced derivatives risk manager with extensive experience trading large, complex derivative portfolios, combined with unrivalled expertise in managing contingent derivative risks (XVA) within the industry’s largest derivatives franchise.
  • Deep practical experience leading the re-engineering of a global derivatives business to compute, price and risk-manage CVA, FVA and KVA.
  • Played a central role in responding to post-crisis regulatory change affecting capital, liquidity, margining and mandatory clearing.
  • Former global head of first-line risk and capital covering OTC clearing, futures & options and FX prime brokerage at a tier-one investment bank.
  • Widely recognised industry expert on counterparty credit risk, funding risk and derivative valuation methodologies.
  • Active participant in global industry forums including ISDA, FIA and CCP risk committees.
  • Extensive experience advising on clearing membership risk, exchange participation, and the evolving regulatory landscape.