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[1].

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[2] for further details.