Kayvaun Rowshankish
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Kayvaun Rowshankish is a partner in McKinsey’s New York office and a leader in both Digital McKinsey and McKinsey’s Risk practice, where he serves all types of financial services firms, including universal banks, investment banks, securities firms, regional banks, asset managers, and financial-market infrastructure players on a broad range of digital risk, finance, data, technology, and operations-related issues. Kayvaun, along with his data transformation teams, has had tremendous impact helping financial services firms realize new revenue opportunities, achieve far-reaching regulatory requirements (including GDPR), and enhance efficiency and effectiveness, accomplished through large-scale transformations that establish strategies and drive execution of initiatives to both address regulatory mandates and also surpass competitors with advanced risk and data capabilities. Such capabilities include the automation of CCAR, operations risk, compliance (for example, BSA/AML, KYC), and credit processes as well as designing and implementing data governance, data use cases, and data architecture at a rapid pace with groundbreaking levels of adoption and impact. He convenes leading forums on risk data and technology and leads much of McKinsey’s preeminent knowledge efforts on these topics, including annual benchmarking that spans over 100 banks globally. Kayvaun speaks regularly at industry forums, publishes, and is quoted in leading journals on these topics.