Managing Director, Head of Bank Advisory, Corporate & Institutional Banking
Adrian Docherty leads the Bank Advisory team, which provides key relationship bank clients with technical sector expertise and help on strategic financial issues relating to balance sheet management, resilience and performance.
In practice, this means advising on capital structures, risk management, regulatory developments (especially Basel IV), funding/liquidity/ALM strategies, credit portfolio management, risk transfer approaches, value management frameworks and innovative ways of financing growth.
Adrian has 33 years’ experience in advising financial institutions, initially as a strategy consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. After nine years at Booz Allen, Adrian was hired by one of his clients, Barclays, to help run the rapidly growing investment banking business line. Adrian spent three years as COO of Investment Banking, before moving to run the balance sheet advisory team in Barclays Capital’s Financial Institutions Group. He moved to BNP Paribas to set up Bank Advisory in 2006.
Adrian has a Master’s from Cambridge University. His book “Better Banking: Understanding and Addressing the Failures in Risk Management, Governance and Regulation” was published by Wiley in 2014