Marco Fischer
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Marco Fischer

Leading German Mortgage Bank

Head of ALM and Markets

About the expert

Marco Fischer is a senior treasury and financial markets executive with over 20 years of banking experience and more than 16 years of international leadership, managing teams across New York, Singapore, London, and Luxembourg.

He currently serves as Head of ALM and Markets at one of Germany’s leading mortgage banks, overseeing strategic liquidity management, balance sheet structure, and market operations.

Previously, Marco led the operational Treasury as Head of ALM at Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB), where he was responsible for short-term funding strategy, interest rate and FX risk management, cover pool and HQLA portfolio management, as well as regulatory KPI optimization. Before that, he held several senior roles at HSH Nordbank, including Head of ALM & Capital, Head of Bank Book Management & Funding, and Head of Portfolio Management, overseeing credit investment portfolios, banks capital position, and funding structure optimization.

Earlier in his career, he worked at WestLB, Raiffeisenlandesbank NOE/Wien & Tirol, Toronto Dominion Securities (London), and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, specializing in structured interest rate and FX derivatives, capital markets strategy, and long-term funding.

Marco Fischer combines analytical expertise with international leadership and strategic vision, contributing to treasury transformation and ALM excellence across global banking markets.

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When the problem isn’t rates, but dates: where banks quietly lose money
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When the problem isn’t rates, but dates: where banks quietly lose money

Treasury. Interest rate risk (IRR). FTP. BP01. NII and NIM. Cost of Funds (CoF). Refixing risk (rate reset dates). P/L and Risk Limits. Swaps and shift fixings. Balance sheet management.

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