International Collateral Management Forum

Head of Collateral Trading and FXCollateral Trading at Deka Bank encompasses Fixed Income Repo, Securities Lending, Equity Finance

Structured Collateralised Solutions and FX. He joined DekaBank from RBS London, where he was global Co-Head of Short Term Markets and Financing responsible for Repo, collateralised Funding, FX and Interest Rate Prime and ETD. Before RBS, Michael was Head of Credit Financing and Collateral Trading (CFCT) at Dresdner Bank in London focusing on Emerging Market Repo, Equity Finance, Tri-Party Repo and synthetic financing in fixed income and credit markets. He started his career at Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt as a Business Manager. Michael has a wealth of experience in the short term money-, repo- and securities lending and financing markets as well as in treasury operations. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Hamburg.

Managing Director, Chief Risk Officer

• Evaluation, monitoring and management of all risks, in particular credit risks, liquidity risks and operational risks
• Implementation of solid risk management framework taking into account all regulatory requirements as well as industry best practices
• Definition of criteria for admission of new market members and default management procedures
• Definition of Margin Calculation Methodology and Collateral Policy including concentration limits
• Definition of CCP.A‘s Investment Policy
• Implementation of Internal Control System
• Contact person for regulatory bodies (FMA, OeNB, ESMA) in all risk management related matters and on-site audits of the company
• Customer Relationship Management
• Accounting & Controlling

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• since 2010 – Member of the supervisory board at CISMO Clearing Integrated Services and Market Operations GmbH
• 2011-2017 – Member of the supervisory board at APCS Power Clearing and Settlement AG
• since 2007 – Member of the Risk Committee of EACH (European Association of CCP Clearing Houses)
• since 2007 – Trainer at WIFI as part of the Wiener Börse Academy

Senior Business Consultant at targit GmbH

He has long practice in Banking, Financial Markets and Regulatory reporting.

Vice President – Business Development, banking, Funding & Finance

José works in business development for the Banking, Funding & Financing division of Clearstream Banking Luxembourg with a focus on triparty repo and banking services. He returned to the company headquarters in Luxembourg in 2018 after having spent five years in the New York office leading Clearstream’s collateral management product and business development in the Americas.

Prior to joining Clearstream in 2010, José’s previous professional experience also includes various positions in collateral management and custody with The Bank of New York-Mellon and Brown Brothers Harriman.

José holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve and a MBA in Banking from the University of London..

Senior Regulatory Reporting Specialist for SFTR

Jonathan is an expert in a number of regulatory regimes in the transaction reporting, trade reporting, liquidity reporting and prudential supervisory space and spearheads Kaizen’s SFTR service offering.

He has 20 years of front-to-back investment banking experience including 11 years at JP Morgan. Jonathan’s focus over the past five years has been on the emergence of new regulations covering securities financing, money market reporting and collateral reuse. In this capacity, he has been closely engaged with the FSB, ESMA, ECB and Bank of England and has been at the forefront of educational and advocacy efforts in the forthcoming Securities Financing Transaction Reporting (SFTR) regime.  Jonathan is a former chair of both the ICMA ERCC SFTR Taskforce and AFME Primary Dealers Reporting group.

www.kaizenreporting.com

Business Manager

Neil joined TriOptima in early 2016 to help them develop and launch their new margining service, triResolve Margin. With a long history in collateral, combining the perspectives of both practitioner and software provider, he is well placed to advise on ways to achieve regulatory compliance and operational excellence.  Over the years he has worked with a large number of buy & sell-side firms, as well as service providers, to help them implement more robust processes around collateral.  Neil has previously worked at Algorithmics, IBM, SmartStream and ABN Amro in a number of Collateral and Middle Office roles.

Head of OTC Clearing

As Head of OTC Clearing, Alexander is responsible for identifying, creating and selling OTC Clearing Services. The OTC Clearing Service of ABN AMRO Clearing, fully facilitates Alternative Investors, Financial Institutions, Hedge Funds and Prof. Trading firms in all aspects of OTC and Exchange trading and Clearing

Head of Fixed Income Clearing Solutions and Function Owner OTC Clearing SGCIB and NEWEDGE

Director, Corporate Bank Securities Services | Market Advocacy

Since October 2010, Britta has been part of the Market Advocacy team within Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division, now Corporate Bank. In this role, she is responsible for several EU regulatory initiatives regarding the financial market infrastructure (e.g. MIFID, SFTR, BMR and IBOR transition), T2S and their impact on the GTB securities business. Britta is a member of several European infrastructure groups, e.g. ECB Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo), AMI-SeCo Harmonisation Steering Group, T2S Change Review Group etc.

Britta joined Deutsche Bank in December 2008, before that she worked almost 14 years as a consultant in the financial industry focusing on strategic projects in the post-trade industry. Britta Woernle studied Business Administration at Frankfurt University and holds a degree as “Diplom-Kauffrau”.

Relationship Management Austria, Swiss, Liechtenstein, CEE & CIS

Ana joined our team in 2017 as a Relationship Manager with responsibility for Switzerland, Benelux, Austria and Eastern Europe. Her focus is on supporting our financial customers and corporates with reporting obligations under EMIR, Finfrag and SFTR. Ana has a background in financial sales, relationship management and product development and design. She joined Clearstream as an Income Specialist in 2010, later taking a leading role in the bank’s Collateral Management team. Ana speaks seven languages and has a Master’s degree in linguistics from the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic

Derivatives and Collateral, Wealth and Markets Operation

Head of Derivatives and Collateral Management in Wealth Management Operations. Been in Derivatives Operations since 2014. Main focus areas has been Collateral Management incl. operational setup for cleared OTC and the new Initial Margin rules.

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Senior Project Manager in Collateral Management

Mark has more than 25 years of experience with the financial industry, of which the latest 12 years has focussed on Collateral Management. Previously head of collateral in Denmarks largest Mortgage Bank and now responsible for projects within Collateral in Denmarks largest Bank.

Secretary General at European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH)

Trade association executive and government affairs professional with over 17 years experience in the financial services industry. Currently heading the European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH). Invited lecturer on CCP Clearing at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Free University of Brussels (ULB). Editorial Board member of the Journal of Securities Operations & Custody. Chosen three times as one of the Financial News ’40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Trading and Technology’. Frequent speaker at conferences and contributor to news articles

Director, EMEA Market Policy and Strategy

Experienced Director Of Market Strategy with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry, with focus in post-trade securities services. Strong community and social services professional skilled in Financial Institutions, Banking, Foreign Exchange (FX) Options, Asset Management, and Securities.

Head of Unit of Financial Markets Infrastructure in the European Commission’s Financial Stability

He previously headed the Resolution and Crisis management teams and was responsible for the Financial Services Action Plan. Before joining the European Commission in 1987, Patrick Pearson worked for the legal service and the foreign financial market affairs divisions in Dutch Finance Ministry in The Hague. He has a law degree from Leiden University in the Netherlands