John A Morrison

John A Morrison is a Solution Architect in Risk Management. He is Director, Solution Partnerships of Union Legend SA (Asymptotix) and an advisor to REvolution Computing. 

John has worked for IBM UK and SAP UK. He has advised, amongst others; HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland, Anglo Irish Bank, Prebon Marshall Yamane, UBS Warburg and Bank Vontobel. He trained at Deloitte and KPMG.

John's academic background is in Monetary Econometrics.

John has led one implementation of Oracle Financials 11i in a large Financial Services organization and provided strategic or architectural advice on another two. He has implemented SAP Bank Analyzer 5.0 once and again provided architectural advice on a further two implementations. John has integrated predictive solutions with the "Industry Models" set from IBM and has been involved with Inphosphere strategic thinking. Arguably John invented the concept of Predictive Model integration capability for SAP Bank Analyzer. He recently provided Product Data Model enrichment advice to another software vendor looking to add 'veritable' IFRS7 / IFRS9 capability. This year John has been architecting a Copula Object set to support Risk Aggregation in a consolidated financial group, in addition to his well received Literature Survey on Credit Risk. John speaks with some of the movers & shakers in Risk Management in the UK and Europe on a regular basis; including the supervisors, related public agencies and Central Banks. John was involved in the development of an impaired asset valuation solution for the European Commission DG Competition this year. He enjoys participation in the European summer conference circuit which facilitate being bleeding edge up to date!