Danny is a senior manager with over 35 years’ experience of wholesale markets derivatives as a London based CEO, MD and Director, leading teams in the repo, debt, derivatives trading, clearing and broking industries of the UK, EU and Eurasia.
He has extensive international in-depth development experience having worked locally in the repo, debt and derivatives markets of Moscow, Sydney, Tokyo and others. Whilst at ED&F Capital Markets (MD, CEO of subsidiary), CME ETR (CEO), ICAP (MD), ING & NatWest Markets, he built & managed new businesses in different parts of the value chain and to a wide cross section of investors. Danny co-led the development of the market infrastructure for Gilt Repo, central clearing of repos (LCH’s groundbreaking ‘RepoClear’ 1999, SFE’s ‘Bond & Repo Clear’ 2000-03) and trade reporting (CME 2012-2016 including cloud capabilities for data storage & access).
He has extensive working relationships with EU, UK and other regulators e.g. ESMA for EMIR and SFTR, BOE for repos (a former member of the Bank of England’s Money Market Liaison Group), CBR for derivatives. He has sat on various central bank committees. He was seconded to LCH Clearnet as part of industry wide response to the default of Lehman Brothers to lead the close-out of the repo books. Danny is a Trustee and Board member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and chairs its International Committee.