Andrew Fellingham
- Company Name
- SMBC
- Position
- Former Managing Director, Head of Americas Division Enterprise Risk
- Biography
- Andrew Fellingham is an entrepreneurial financial services executive with 29 years of leadership experience across global systemically important banks (G-SIBs), who brings deep expertise in risk management, finance, portfolio management, and distressed asset workout. Andrew’s career highlights reflect a consistent ability to design and implement enterprise-wide operating frameworks that integrate financial, non-financial, and compliance risk disciplines to support resilient and sustainable business growth. He is known for shaping risk appetite, delivering forward-looking quantitative insights, and developing comprehensive stress-testing programs that inform Boards, Executive Committees, and U.S. regulators. Recognized as a collaborative, influential leader, Andrew excels at building trust with business heads and regulators while delivering measurable improvements to risk culture, governance, remediation activities, and financial performance. Most recently at SMBC, Andrew led large, multidisciplinary teams of more than 80 professionals with annual budgets exceeding $100M, while strengthening risk governance across diverse business lines including capital markets, broker/dealer, swap dealer, treasury, corporate and wholesale banking, leasing, online consumer banking, and international subsidiaries. Throughout his career, Andrew has driven high-impact transformation initiatives that enhanced institutional resilience and operational effectiveness. These include implementations of Enhanced Prudential Standards, major enterprise data and technology upgrades, capital and funding plan creation, and the development of new organizational structure operating models. Andrew is adept at identifying emerging risks early and addressing them through policy development, new control structures, enhanced risk analytics, and stress tests tailored to the size and complexity of the institution. Earlier in his career, Andrew managed crisis-era distressed credit portfolios at the Swiss National Bank’s Stabilization Fund, generating $5.3B in taxpayer profits, gained extensive front-office markets and securitized products experience across Credit Agricole, Koch Global Capital, and Commerzbank, and honed his origination, negotiation, and advisory skills at his eponymous consulting startup.
Speaker on
Building an Enterprise-Wide View of Risk
Panel discussion
Operational Risk
09/24/2026
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11:40 - 12:20
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Towns Room