Nancy Allen is at State Street within the Financing Solutions Business Development team. She is responsible for business generation across the financing solutions products which include secured financing, prime services, and agency lending. She joined State Street late last year from UBS where she worked within the prime brokerage team.

Working in the London derivatives and structured finance practice, Michael specialises in structures involving a variety of securities financing transactions, OTC derivatives and bespoke collateral arrangements. Michael also advises on a range of related regulatory issues, including OTC margin requirements.

Bob Currie is editor of Securities Finance Times. He has over 25 years of research and publishing experience, with a background spanning securities finance, asset servicing, financial technology and regulation. Bob was previously co-founder and editorial director of Financial Services Research and research director at Funds Europe. He is author of a Global Securities Operations (GSO) manual for the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI), which was used as the course handbook for its GSO module from 2005 to 2016. He was also a member of the CISI examinations committee for this subject area. For much of the 1990s, Bob was lecturer and researcher in the UK university sector, specialising in international political economy and development strategy for emerging markets. He has a PhD in International Political Economy and has been studying part-time for an MSc in Computer Science.

Richard has been involved with repo for over 20 years and is a well-known figure in the market. During that time, he has been an adviser to the ICMA’s European Repo and Collateral Council (ERCC), among other things, conducting its authoritative semi-annual survey of the European repo market since 2001 and authoring its Guide to Best Practice in the European Repo Market, which is the most comprehensive code of conduct in the financial markets.

His Repo FAQs page on the ICMA website is its most actively consulted published resource on repo. More recently, Richard has supported the ERCC’s SFTR Task Force and authors its authoritative Recommendations for Reporting Repos under SFTR and other guidance. Richard is ICMA’s Director of Education on repo and has trained many of those currently working in the European repo market (including staff at the ECB and FRBNY). He has also been retained by the IMF, World Bank, Asian Development Bank and market development foundation, Frontclear, to advise on the creation of new repo markets in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.

Richard is a commentator on all things repo, recently posting articles on the interpretation of SFTR public data, the impact of SFTR on reporting firms, green repo, the taxonomy of repo trading technology, CCP clearing of repo, the legal character of repo and the difference between repos, securities lending and derivatives.

Richard has more than 25 years of financial services experience. He began his career at Northern Trust in 1990, where he later took a lead role in the development and implementation of the firm’s new proprietary stock lending trading and operations platform, which elevated Northern Trust’s ability to service their clients and increase their product diversification in the market.

Since becoming independent, Richard has worked for a number of the industry’s leading companies including Aviva Investors, Barclays Bank, HSBC, eSecLending and Clearstream. Richard set up Consolo in 2015 to establish a company of dedicated industry professionals to service this corner of finance. He specialises in business start-ups and transformation, project management and delivery change management. He is considered a product specialist and an operational risk expert.

Consolo is a consultancy that provides specialised business process and change management services within securities finance. During his time at the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) in 2020, he led a team implementing industry best-practice for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) financial legislation, collaborated with several of the tier-1 banks and service providers to make sense of the regulatory technical standards (RTS), and acted as a conduit to regulators such as the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Since leaving ISLA, Richard has onboarded this regulatory best practice in no less than five industry practitioners across all service providers.

Now working with industry leaders EquiLend, he continues this work with the award winning EquiLend Spire trading and operations platform.

Darren Crowther is the General Manager for Broadridge’s Securities Finance and Collateral Management (SFCM) division. His entrepreneurial attitude to seeking innovative solutions for market problems has Darren continually spearheading new approaches to streamline the Securities Finance industry. Darren has over 20 years’ experience in the Securities Finance and software business and has been with Broadridge since the acquisition of 4sight in 2016. From 4sights beginning in 2003 Darren has served in a number of leadership roles, including Vice President of Solution Delivery. He is a business champion for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion facilitating various initiatives across Broadridge.

Wassel Dammak is the Head of collateral solutions product strategy at Vermeg where he is responsible for bridging collateral management business and technology to help financial firms transform their legacy IT stack into a service based and componentized architecture and thus reaching a ‘by-nature’ transformative model of strategic readiness to market opportunities and threats.

Previously, he held multiple positions in the fintech industry focusing on product management, Go to Market strategy and revenues generation at world class leading fintech companies serving globally the capital markets.

Mr. Dammak earned a Bachelor of Accounting and Finance from the Carthage High Commercial Studies Institute of Tunis.

Grant Davies is Head of Sales EMEA for EquiLend, the global technology company for the securities finance, collateral and swaps industries. Grant has more than 25 years of experience in the finance industry, primarily focused on securities finance markets including securities lending, repo and collateral across equities and fixed income. Prior to leading EMEA sales at EquiLend, Grant held sales, relationship management and trading roles at firms including Goldman Sachs, BNY Mellon, HSBC, J.P. Morgan and iShares, as well as consultancy CORE Collateral and trading platform MatchBox. Grant is the founder and board member of the Securities Finance Charity Ball and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers.

Darren is the Head of Securities Lending Product Development at Brown Brothers Harriman. He is responsible for the introduction of new product capabilities that generate additional revenue, improve overall client experience, and adapt the business to new regulation. Before assuming his present position, Darren was responsible for Brown Brothers Harriman’s agency lending algorithmic execution and digital platform product strategy.

During his 15-year career at Brown Brothers Harriman, Darren has held multiple agency lending trading and product development roles in both London and Hong Kong.

Erica recently joined HQLA^X as a Solutions Architect, working to develop products and deliver solutions for clients to transact on the HQLA^X platform across their multiple product offerings.

Katie is responsible for agency securities finance and collateral management sales EMEA, based in London.

Katie joined J.P. Morgan in 2004 and has worked in various roles across the Securities Services business. Her product and market responsibilities expanded thereafter, culminating in her taking on leadership for Agency Securities Finance Sales in 2018. Her role is to ensure that the team utilises the full Trading Services product suite to support the funding, financing and optimisation needs of our client base which includes pension funds, asset managers, and insurance companies..

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Katie worked in various roles for Swiss Re Asset Management, both in Zurich and London. She holds a B.A. (Honours) in International Relations from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Sabine Farhat is Head of Securities Finance Product Management at Murex. She leads the MX.3 product evolution for Repo, SBL, and the full synthetics offering. Her recent work has focused on preparing the securities finance solution for physical and synthetics to the new market demands by enhancing the whole value chain front to back to risk for high-volume Straight-through Processing offering and continuously focusing on regulations. Sabine holds a master’s degree in management of Financial Institutions from Université Paris Dauphine.

Ruth is responsible for MUFG global client coverage focusing primarily on Rates, Repo and Securities Lending. Prior to joining MUFG in 2012, Ruth worked in various roles across the global markets business at Goldman Sachs International and Citigroup London. Having worked in London and Amsterdam, Ruth is expected to relocate to Tokyo in early 2024 as part of an exciting global Rates initiative within the broader MUFG Group.

She is an active member of the MUFG Employee Alliance Networks with a strong focus on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, Social Mobility, Mentoring and Sponsorship. She is a board Culture representative and spokesperson for the wider MUFG Group.

Externally, she is involved with various ICMA Networks, Women in Security Finance, 100 Women in Finance as well as being an active contributing member of the LCH Collateral Advisory Group and the ICMA Bond Market Liquidity Taskforce.

Outside banking, she is a Trustee and the Treasurer for a London based charity that works with young people and adults with learning differences providing mentoring, development programmes, career advice and counselling. She is also a member of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and the Confrérie du Sabre d’Or

In her spare time, she is a qualified British Skydiving senior formation skydiving discipline judge and has judged skydiving and wind tunnel competitions worldwide for over 13 years.

Gabriele has over 25 years’ experience in market infrastructure for fixed income and collateral management, a significant amount of which he has spent brilliantly moderating panels and chairing conferences all over the universe and beyond much to the annoyance and envy of Bill Foley.

Gabriele has extensive repo and securities lending experience, having previously worked at Mts/LSEG, Euroclear and Eurex. When he started Godfried de Vidts and Richard Comotto were children. He currently is Head of European Expansion for BondCliq, the central market system for the corporate bond market, which recently opened its capital to LSEG/Refinitiv, Aflac Ventures, SEI®️, Vanguard and Jane Street.

Philip is Tonic’s Collateral Ninja, formally known as our Head of Collateral Practice. Philip is a highly experienced Senior Consultant and Collateral SME, with over 25 -years in leadership roles across OTC Clearing, Margin and Collateral. Philip has experienced first-hand all major collateral trends in that time, such as increasing collateral regulatory and business maturity, alongside an array of high-profile market events.

Philip also has a track record of successful transformation delivery across Collateral and Clearing functions both at investment banks and global consultancies including RBS, Citi and Sapient.

Richard works closely with clients to address post-trade pain points and helping them to achieve greater efficiency in collateral and liquidity management. Prior to joining HQLAx, he spent nearly 17 years at Clearstream, most recently serving as Head of Collateral Management in the firm’s banking, funding and financing division, as well as the General Manager of Clearstream Banking S.A’s London branch. He has also held previous roles at BGC Partners in London and Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt.

Jan Grauls is a Product Manager for Euroclear’s collateral management services looking after product development and strategy, a role he has held since 2014.

Jan is responsible for a broad range of strategic initiatives and projects enhancing Euroclear’s services including collateral optimisation, inventory management and the mobilisation of collateral for monetary policy operations.

Jan joined Euroclear’s collateral operations in 2008 and has over 15 years’ experience working on collateral and securities financing in various roles.

Jan holds a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, in Belgium.

Gavin Howard is technology lead for the 1Source Initiative at EquiLend, the global technology company for the securities finance, collateral and swaps industries. Gavin has more than 17 years of experience in technology with the last 12 in the Securities Finance domain building and designing the firms API infrastructure and analytics capabilities. Prior to his position at EquiLend Gavin held technology roles at firms including Goldman Sachs and Rolls-Royce.

Andy has been at Citi since 1989. During his career at Citi Andy has held various management positions in custody operations including agency lending operations, was a trader on the Citi agency lending desk and spent five years in Product Risk Management where he obtained Credit Officer status.

Prior to Citi Andy was at RBS for three years. Since mid-2006 Andy has worked in Citi’s Agency Securities Lending department. Andy is currently responsible for Agency Securities Lending global product development and was previously the Chairman of the International Securities Lending Association board.

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 quality assurance services.

He has 20 years of front-to-back investment banking experience including 11 years at JP Morgan. Jonathan’s focus over the past seven 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 for the Securities Financing Transaction Reporting (SFTR) reporting regime.

Iain joined EquiLend in 2014 from the Royal Bank of Scotland, where most recently he was Global Head of Network Management. Before that, he was the European Head of Securities Operations at the firm, overseeing operations for cash equities, equity finance, fixed income and equity derivatives products. Prior to RBS, Iain was the European Department Manager for Prime Services at Deutsche Bank, Section Head for Finance Operations at Citigroup International and Securities Lending Collateral Manager at Nomura. He has more than 25 years of experience in the securities finance industry.

Camille McKelvey is the Head of Business Development STP, for MarketAxess Post-Trade. Camille actively works with the industry to improve Post-Trade automation across the cash and repo markets, as well as looking for new, innovative ways to address client’s workflow challenges. Since joining MarketAxess is 2014, Camille has developed the Match Post-Trade platform and significantly grown the market share. Prior to joining MarketAxess she spent 10 years in investment banking. Camille actively participates in promoting diversity and inclusivity within financial services as a founding steering committee member of the International Capital Markets Association Women’s Network.

Until 2011, Sarah was the Global Director of Securities Finance at Aviva Investors, one of the biggest insurer and in-house agent lenders in Europe. In this role Sarah managed the development of business in Europe, US and Asia, incorporating all elements of securities financing, collateral management and post trade process giving her a detailed knowledge of securities financing well as other structured products from a front office and post trade perspective.

Sarah was also a board member of the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) for 12 years, helping to shape industry documentation and address regulatory issues, and also worked directly with ISLA as a consultant for 9 years specialising in regulatory change and post trade developments.

Sarah now drives the thought leadership and training business for Consolo as well as contributing to business analysis and development projects.

Tom Pikett is Vice President, Product Development in Trading Services at J.P. Morgan. Trading Services is comprised of Agency Securities Financing and Collateral Services businesses, which sit in the Securities Services division of the CIB.

Tom is currently responsible for digital initiatives, ranging from the use of DLT to achieve zero break processing in Agency Securities Financing, through to digital and tokenized assets to be used as collateral. Tom is also leading the development of the Tokenized Collateral Network, an application which sits on the Onyx Blockchain.

Prior to focusing on digital strategy, Tom was responsible for delivery of the SFTR reporting solution within Agency Securities Financing.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Tom held roles across product, sales and operations at MarketAxess, Natwest and Euroclear.

Stuart Power, Director of Integration Intelligence at Coliance, boasts over two decades of experience working with industry giants like Symantec, BMC, and IBM. His career has been dedicated to assisting clients in data protection, transformation, and visualization. Stuart is known for spearheading the introduction of new tech products into unexplored markets, creating global opportunities. For 20 years, he has been at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge solutions tailored to the specific requirements of retail, investment, and wholesale banking, as well as digital trading. His specialization lies in file-based, electronic, and real-time payment processing, contributing significantly to the financial technology landscape. Stuart Power is a respected figure in the industry, with a profound impact on tech innovation and integration intelligence.

Annabelle leads Business Development at S&P Global Market Intelligence across their Data, Valuations & Analytics business, and specialises in S&P Global’s proprietary Securities Finance data, analytics and solutions with which she has worked for 15 years.

During Annabelle’s 11-year tenure at S&P Global she previously led Equity Sales in EMEA, having joined as a sales specialist in Securities Finance with Markit’s acquisition of Data Explorers in 2012, where she expanded the business into the Buy Side across UK and European Hedge Funds.

Annabelle started her career in 2001 leading Hedge Fund sales at Reuters, and holds a first-class honours degree in French from the University of Exeter.

Sadaf is a dedicated Legal Assistant, having transitioned to the legal team after holding a fintech project management role at Sharegain.

Mr. Tsang oversees Business Development for S&P Global Market Intelligence, Cappitech in Europe and is responsible for leading the expansion of our regulatory reporting capabilities. Mr. Tsang has over 15 years’ experience covering collateral management, trade support and regulatory reporting. Most recently he managed the Cappitech client services team globally and helped clients navigate and onboard successfully onto our SFTR platform. Prior to joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Mr. Tsang spent 5 years at CME Group, with his last role being the Business and Product Development Manager of the European Trade Repository.

Martin Walker is the Head of Product Management for Broadridge’s Securities Finance and Collateral Management division. Former roles include Global Head of Securities Finance and Treasury IT at Dresdner Kleinwort and Global Head of Prime Brokerage Technology at RBS Markets. He has also worked as a consultant and researcher in capital markets with several papers published. He contributed to the new book, Evidence-Based Management – How to Use Evidence to Make Better Organizational Decisions, and his first book on Capital Markets infrastructure will be published later in the year. He has an MSc in Computing Science from Imperial College, London and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.