Saiyan joined Ortec Finance in 2023 from HSBC, where he led several model development initiatives including the validation of the Moody’s Analytics model: PFaroe, and the bank’s first internal climate stress test exercise for its 70+ pension plans. With over a decade of experience, he commenced his career at Willis Towers Watson advising large asset owners, predominantly sovereign wealth funds and insurers, on asset-liability modelling and investment strategy. In 2015, he moved into banking advisory at NatWest (formerly Royal Bank of Scotland), and subsequently HSBC, where he focused on economic capital modelling and stress-testing for regulators including the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), and European Banking Authority (EBA).
Saiyan is a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science from the University of Kent.