FCA and Bank appoint members to their Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Harmonisation Taskforce

The taskforce will inform our long-term approach to harmonising transaction and post-trade reporting requirements across UK Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (UK MiFIR), UK European Market Infrastructure Regulation (UK EMIR) and UK Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (UK SFTR).

The taskforce comprises 3 separate working groups: a main Policy working group, supported by a Strategy working group and an Architecture working group. The objectives of the working groups were set out in the terms of reference.

The Policy working group is chaired by Helen Packard (head of market oversight data & intelligence at FCA) and Julia Giese (head of financial markets infrastructure analytics at the Bank). The members of the Policy working group are:

• Giulia Pecce (head of secondary capital markets & wholesale investor protection at AFME) 
• Adam Jacobs-Dean (managing director, global head of markets, governance and innovation at AIMA) 
• Andy Leonard (regulatory reporting lead SME at Barclays Bank PLC) 
• Hussain Abdullah (director, data & regulatory operations at Citigroup) 
• Karen Stretch (partner at Dechert LLP) 
• Emma Kalliomaki (managing director at ANNA & DSB) 
• Paul Sedgwick (head of DDRL at DTCC) 
• John Graham (senior director of regulation at Futures Industry Association) 
• Greg Stevens (reporting operations director at ICE Futures Europe) 
• Andrew Bayley (senior director, regulatory reporting transformation at ISDA) 
• Tony Holland (director of market practice & regulatory reporting at ISLA) 
• Stuart Cosgrave (operations director at J.P. Morgan Chase) 
• Tim Hartley (global head of SME team & director, EMIR reporting at Kaizen Reporting Ltd) 
• Zach Johnson (director at Kroll) 
• Mark Burnal (managing director, head of fund regulatory reporting and infrastructure at Man Group) 
• Ayo Fashina (executive director, shared services compliance at Morgan Stanley) 
• Rav Saidha (director at Retail Derivative Forum) 
• Will Williams (director, regulatory services at RBC Capital Markets) 
• Rajan Mawkin (senior manager, compliance advisory, credit & equities at TP ICAP Group) 
• James Southwick (trade & transaction reporting senior specialist at Vanguard Asset Management Ltd) 
• Richard Young (industry affairs, regulation and symbology strategist at Bloomberg LP)

The Strategy working group is chaired by Dominic Holland (director, enforcement & market oversight and wholesale sell side at FCA) and Nicholas Butt (head of market based finance at the Bank). The members of the Strategy working group are: 

• Adam Conn (director, head of trading at Baillie Gifford Overseas Ltd) 
• Alison Vickers (global head of trade and transaction reporting at BlackRock) 
• Michelle Bedwin (group chief compliance officer at Capula Investment Management) 
• Tanuja Sharma (chief compliance officer, EMEA at Citadel & Citadel Securities) 
• Dawd Haque (market initiatives, regulatory transformation and strategy at Deutsche Bank) 
• Mike Hsu (advisor, speaker, former acting comptroller of the currency at Independent) 
• Luke Taylor (managing director, global banking and markets head of regulatory reporting at Goldman Sachs International) 
• Suzanne Calcagno (global head of regulatory response and oversight, MSS operations at HSBC Bank Plc) 
• Jonathan Armitage (head of regulatory reporting at LCH) 
• Susan Heinrich (EMEA head of non-financial regulatory reporting at Macquarie Group Ltd) 
• Gary Chia-Hsing Li (head of regulatory affairs, EMEA & APAC at MarketAxess) 
• Sana Houari (head of UK compliance, technology and operations at Societe Generale) 
• Dan Chambers (head of regulatory operations at Standard Chartered) 
• Uwe Hillnhütter (regulatory affairs at Tradeweb Europe) 
• Karen Miles (head of non-core legacy regulatory services at UBS)

The Architecture working group is chaired by Richard Cutress (manager, data engineering & technology at FCA), Khalid Ledgister (manager, regulatory, business, enterprise & technical architecture team at FCA) and John Aveson (senior data scientist, financial market infrastructure data team at Bank). The members of the Architecture working group are: 

• Andy Hughes (head of technical services at Derivatives Service Bureau) 
• Mihir Trivedi (head of global regulatory change at Deutsche Bank) 
• Alexander McDonald (CEO at EVIA) 
• Eric Odotei (group head of regulatory reporting at Finalto Group) 
• Stephen Mogie (director, business intelligence & regulatory reporting at ICE Clear Europe) 
• Zeynep Shields (global regulatory reporting product owner at J.P. Morgan Asset Management) 
• Michelle Zak (founder & CEO at Qomply) 
• Christopher Hall (head of operations, technology AI strategy at Morgan Stanley) 
• Miguel Munoz Royo (domain architect at SIX Group) 
• Ashish Karandikar (director, regulatory change management at CIBC Capital Markets) 
• Sumeet Agarwal (global lead of trade and transaction reporting technology at Citadel Securities) 
• Pierre Khemdoudi (CEO & co-founder at Gentek AI) 
• Catherine Ahnoff (product director, LSEG regulatory reporting at London Stock Exchange Group) 
• Leo Labeis (founder & CEO at REGnosys)

The working groups are supported by the Transaction & Position Reporting Team at the FCA and the Financial Market Infrastructure Data Team at the Bank.

Members have been appointed in a personal capacity. Some of the firms listed above are authorised and/or regulated by the Bank, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and/or the FCA. Please see the Financial Services Register for further details.