IFRS Academy
IFRS for Banks

Guido Ravoet European Banking Federation	Since January 2005, Guido Ravoet has been Secretary General of the European Banking Federation, following his 10 years office at the helm of the Association of Belgian Banks, currently called Febelfin (Belgian Finance Federation). Previously, he was Secretary General of the European Association of Cooperative Banks and, throughout his career, he has remained focused on European affairs, e.g. as former member of the European Economic and Social Committee. Guido Ravoet can rely on more than 10 years of banking experience, working with Cera bank (now KBC) first as Head of Research Department, then as Regional Director. Guido has a PhD in Law and a Master's Degree in business economics. Guido Ravoet is a member of the Supervisory Board of EFRAG, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group.  This body gives European input into the IASB activities and gives advice to the European Commission on the acceptance into EU law of IFRS.
Enrico Bernardi European Banking Federation	Enrico Bernardi is adviser in the Accounting, Supervisory and Tax Issues Department at European Banking Federation (EBF). He performed graduate work at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and participated in the executive program on the implementation of IFRS by the Italian Banking sector, namely through collaborations with the Italian Banking Association (ABI) and the Italian Standard Setter (Organismo Italiano di Contabilità – OIC). In 2005, he joined ABI as adviser on IFRS. He spread his interest to banking supervision when in 2006 the new European directive on capital requirements (Capital Requirements Directive – CRD) allowed the use of accounts calculated adopting IFRS as basis of the supervisory reports.
Roger Kaiser European Banking Federation	Roger Kaiser is Senior Adviser for Tax & Accounting Issues at the European Banking Federation (EBF, Brussels), adviser to the Accounting Working Group of the International Banking Federation (IBFed, London) and adviser to the Supervisory Board of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG, Brussels). He is regularly charged with expert missions by European Union Bodies and Institutions. He has contributed many articles on international tax and accounting as well as conferences across Europe and worldwide. Roger studied Business Engineering. In 1999, he also received a Master’s Degree in Taxation (ESSF, Brussels) and an International Degree in European Tax Lax (from the ESSF and the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France). In addition he graduated from the 54th International Banking Summer School which was hosted in 2001 in La Jolla, California, by the American Bankers Association (USA). He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Tax Advisers in Belgium, and the International Fiscal Association (The Hague, Netherlands).
Suttharug Panya Deloitte	Suttharug Panya is a project leader for IAS 39 implementation, for two large scale Thai banks. Implementation adheres to upcoming Thai Accounting Standards announced by FAP. Prior to joining Deloitte, she was Senior Vice President at DBS Thai Danu Bank, where she was in charge of Finance and Accounting, Corporate Planning and MIS. In addition, she managed regulatory issues for all banks in Thailand. Surrathug Panya was appointed bank representative in the Thai Bankers Association.
Chris Puype FinArch	Chris Puype is the co-founder of Financial Arcitects (FinArch). Chris has a deep understanding of the technical and financial mechanics of banking and finance technology. He initially worked as a Senior Auditor for three years at Ernst & Young. In 1991 he joined Dun & Bradstreet Software as Senior Consultant, focusing on the installation of general ledger systems. Two years later he became a Consulting Manager at FICS Group, a software provider for financial institutions, where he led the implementations of Financial Client Server Systems internationally. Today, Chris is COO and Director of Asia for FinArch, which he co-founded in 1997.
Marcus Peeraer IFRS Expert	Marcus Peeraer is an international consultant, trainer and expert in bank accounting and disclosure matters. He is founder of the Belgian Bank Accounting training cycle, and of the Banking IAS/IFRS cycle.   Prior to consulting and training, Marcus Peeraer worked in the banking industry. He started his career at a Belgian bank holding as expert consolidation, where he soon became responsible for the re-engeneering of the bank’s foreign currency and derivatives administration, including accounting and disclosure processing.   Marcus’ consulting and training services include a.o. bank accounting and prudential reporting based on local GAAP and European GAAP, the implementation and training of the Basel I requirements related to credit and market risks, and the implementation of EU bank accounting and consolidation directives in several EU transition countries.   Since 2000, Marcus has specialised in US GAAP and IAS (later IFRS), in a first instance on a general level,  later on implementation issues related to financial instruments (IAS 18, 21, 32, 39, IFRS 7) and hedge accounting (IAS 39).
Patrick Jacobs IFRS Expert	Patrick Jacobs is a highly acclaimed speaker, trainer and consultant in bank accounting and management. Patrick started +20 years of experience in the banking world, where he mainly focused on developing and implementing accounting schemes, procedures and methodologies for IAS/IFRS standards as. Patrick has taught on the subject of bank accounting and performance management, and IAS/IFRS in Belgium, Luxembourg, Kosovo, Poland, Vietnam and China. Patrick holds a Master in Accounting and Finance, and in Translation.
Jeroen Van Doorsselaere FinArch	Jeroen van Doorsselaere is a young professional with a strong background in finance and accounting. As IAS/IFRS Subject matter Expert at Financial Architects (FinArch), Jeroen has an indepth knowledge of the IAS/IFRS rules and compliance requirements. Jeroen obtained a degree in Applied Economics and holds a Master in Banking and Finance. After a traineeship at Deloitte, he joined FinArch to implement the company’s IAS/IFRS solutions and European Regulatory Reporting Requirement solutions in numerous banks throughout Europe, the US and Asia. Being Team Lead at FinArch, Jeroen is responsible for coaching and training in different IAS/IFRS related topics such as IAS 39 implementation guidance, event based accounting. In his role, Jeroen is conducting research on and monitoring closely a.o. the amendments published by the IASB, local regulatory reporting and issues by the CEBS (Committee of European Banking supervisors).
Benny Verhelst FinArch	Benny Verhelst is a senior IFRS specialist working for the Accounting and MIS group of Finarch. He is involved in projects on collective impairment, the implementation of IAS 39 hedge accounting and the follow-up of future changes to the IFRS standards. Before joining Financial Architects, he worked for Fortis Group and for the audit department of Ernst & Young Belgium. He started his career at Ernst & Young Benny and quickly became specialised in the audit of dealing room activities of several banking clients in Belgium. While at Ernst & Young he was a trainer for their Belgian Banking Group. Afterwards, he joined the internal audit department of Fortis Group where he was involved in the Basel 2 project audit. After a brief period in internal audit, he took on a position ensuring the IFRS compliance of the Foreign Branches of Fortis Bank. In this position he was responsible for the IFRS compliance of the  branches in North America, Europe and Asia. He then joined the policies department of Fortis Group where he made several contributions to the group accounting manual on derivatives, provisions, impairment and intangibles. He was in charge of the gap-analysis for new standards such as IFRS 8. In this position he was also active as a trainer for the Fortis Finance Faculty for which he gave IFRS overview seminars worldwide. He was in charge of developing an advanced IFRS training on derivatives and hedge accounting. Benny studied mathematics at the University of Ghent, Applied Economics with a specialisation in Finance at the Catholic University of Leuven, Clinical Psychology at the University of Brussels and  is a  Certified Internal Auditor.