About
Dr Coskun Tarkocin, CFA, FRM
Where I started
I trained as an industrial engineer before I studied economics, and I still look at a bank the way an engineer looks at a system: what goes in, what comes out, and what breaks first under strain.
Inside the bank
I started in risk management in 2006 and worked my way across the balance sheet to Group Treasury, which I joined in 2020. Since 2022 I have worked at director level in the Global Liquidity team, playing a lead part in three of the Group's strategic Treasury programmes. Each move showed me the same decisions from a different side, and taught me that most hard problems in a bank sit where those sides meet.
Asking why
Practice kept raising questions I wanted to answer properly, so I went back to research: a PhD in Economics built on machine learning papers, then two years as a Visiting Research Fellow at King's Business School.
Teaching what I practise
Teaching grew alongside the work, from liquidity training for Europe's banking supervisors to thousands of bankers inside the bank. I keep coming back to the same lesson: teaching is the best form of learning.
What drives me
Better-managed banks serve the economy and society better; that conviction is behind my research and my teaching. My other passion is technology, and learning by doing is my thing, so lately I have been experimenting with new technologies.
Outside work
Away from the balance sheet I am usually on a tennis court, where I am also Treasurer of my lawn tennis club in London, or on the water sailing and windsurfing. In winter it is skiing, and I also enjoy horse riding. I also care about widening access to education, including for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Education & qualifications
- PhD Economics
- Thesis built on machine learning papers, defended August 2023
- MA Economics
- BSc Industrial Engineering
- CFA Charterholder
- Financial Risk Manager (FRM)
- Leading Businesses and Functions
- Executive programme for directors
Short bio
Dr Coskun Tarkocin has worked in the Group Treasury of a global bank in London since 2020, and since 2022 at director level in the Global Liquidity team, where he has played a lead part in three Group programmes: the internal liquidity model, global liquidity optimisation and liquidity transfer pricing. His twenty-year career runs from risk management through markets and investment bank Treasury.
He holds a PhD in Economics and has published peer-reviewed papers, including research applying machine learning to early warning of liquidity stress. He speaks regularly at industry conferences such as Risk Live Europe, Risk Evolve and CeFPro, teaches regulators as part of the European Supervisor Education (ESE) initiative, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at King's Business School from 2022 to 2024. He is a CFA Charterholder and FRM.
Languages
English (fluent), Turkish (native)