Nishit Shah

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Nishit Shah is the Global Lead, AI in Risk Solutions at SAS, where he helps financial institutions apply artificial intelligence to transform risk management, stress testing, provisioning, capital planning, and balance sheet optimisation. With more than 15 years of experience across banking, analytics, and consulting, Nishit specialises in combining advanced risk analytics with AI to deliver faster, more transparent, and governance-ready decision-making. He previously led portfolio risk analytics team at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), delivering enterprise-wide insights and played a key role in embedding data-driven decision-making across business banking. Earlier, at Macquarie Bank, he contributed to the development of credit risk and capital models supporting IRB and regulatory initiatives. His current focus is on accelerating risk and treasury transformation through agentic AI, scenario generation, and integrated balance sheet analytics—linking macroeconomic drivers to credit portfolio dynamics to deliver forward-looking insights for stress testing, capital planning, and strategic decision-making.