The Future of Clearing & Settlement

Diana Chan

Chief Executive Officer, EuroCCP

Biography

Diana Chan is Chief Executive Officer of EuroCCP.  She most recently served with Citi as Managing Director for Market Strategy, and global head of Market Policy for Securities and Fund Services.  She has worked for 15 years in the securities services industry in Europe.

Diana represents EuroCCP in the major clearing and settlement policy groups, including the European Commission’s CESAME, the European Central Bank’s TARGET2 Securities Advisory Group and COGESI (Contact Group for Euro Securities Infrastructures).

Diana is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong and the Harvard Business School.

Tomas Kindler

Managing Director, Link Up Markets

Biography

Tomas Kindler is Managing Director of Link Up Markets, a Madrid based company founded by seven Central Securities Depositories in April 2008 to improve efficiency and reduce costs of post-trade processing of cross-border securities transactions in Europe. Tomas Kindler joined Link Up Markets from Clearstream, the settlement and custody division at Deutsche Börse Group, where he was inter alia responsible for Clearstream's strategic projects and represented Clearstream in a number of industry discussions on topics such as TARGET2 Securities and the European Code of Conduct for Clearing and Settlement. He has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Technical University of Hamburg/Germany, and holds an MBA from Duke University, North Carolina.

For further information please contact: media@linkupmarkets.com

Patrick Pearson

Head of Unit, Financial Infrastructure, European Commission

Biography

Robert Barnes

Managing Director, Equities, UBS Investment Bank

Biography

BA Harvard, PhD Cambridge. Joined the proprietary trading team at Swiss Bank Corporation in 1994, gained experience 'downstairs' on the LIFFE derivatives floor as a yellow jacket and 'upstairs' trading special situations via brokers across most western markets. Currently Managing Director, Equities responsible for Market Structures at UBS Investment Bank, Chairman of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association, a member of user advisory groups for a number of Stock Exchanges and pro-competitive initiatives, the FSA's Capital Markets Sector Senior Practitioner Committee, Euroclear's UK Market Advisory Committee, a Fellow of the Securities & Investment Institute sitting on its Membership Committee, the UBS high level representative by invitation to the European Commission's CESAME and now CESAME2 Group, and a member of the FTSE Country Classification Committee.

Helmut Wacket

Head of Section, Target 2 Securities Team, European Central Bank

Biography

Helmut Wacket has a degree in Business Administration and has a broad background in central banking. From 1983 – 1999 he worked in different functions for the Deutsche Bundesbank, inter alia in the payment systems department, European department, economics department and as Assistant Representative in the Representative Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in New York.

Having joined the ECB in 1999 he has worked on payment system oversight issues and is now Head of the External Stakeholder Management Section in the T2S Division. He is the Secretary of the T2S Advisory Group. In previous assignments at the ECB, he worked in the Back Office Division and the Market Operations Analysis Division of the Directorate General Market Operations. He represented the ECB in the CPSS Working Group on Retail Payment Systems and the CPSS Task Force on Payment System Principles and Practices, drafting the “Core Principles” report. He also was a member of the CPSS Sub-Group on FX settlement risk, the forum to perform the co-operative central bank oversight of CLS.

Alan Cameron

Head of Clearing, Settlement and Custody Client Solutions, BNP Paribas Securities Services

Biography

Alan joined BNP Paribas in 2008 and his current role is to lead our clearing, settlement and custody business on a global basis. He is a member of the BNP Paribas Securities Services Management Comex. Alan has over 25 years experience in Financial Services, in various senior management positions, primarily within the securities services environment.

Prior to joining BNP Paribas Alan worked for Citi's Global Transaction Banking division, undertaking a number of different management roles in sales, relationship management and product management.

He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.