OTC Derivatives Summit

Godfried De Vidts

Director of European Affairs, ICAP

Biography

Godfried De Vidts was appointed as Director of European Affairs for ICAP plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, on 23 January 2006.

He advises on European financial and political issues and is involved in ICAP’s business with the European Commission and Parliament. In addition he maintains regular contact with all of the European Central Banks and Treasuries. He works closely with ICAP’s electronic and voice broking businesses on marketing and product development across Europe.

Godfried De Vidts takes an active role in the development of the European financial services industry, including:

• Chairman of “The European Repo Council”  under the auspices of the
  International Capital Markets Association (www.icma-group.org)
• President of Euribor ACI (www.aciforex.com)
• Member of the Cesame group 2 of the European Commission
• Member of the Code of Conduct Monitoring Group (MOG) of the European Commission
• Member of the ECB Contact Group on Euro Securities Infrastructures (Cogesi)
• Member of the Giovannini working group

• Mr De Vidts is honorary President of ACI, The Financial Markets Association and also honorary President of ACI Belgium.

From 1972 Mr De Vidts has worked in the financial markets involving FRAs, futures, options, money markets, forward FX, Euronotes and C.P. In 1995 he became involved in the development of the international and triparty repo markets. In 1999 he became product manager for the short end of the market, moving forward into netting and trading systems, emerging markets repo and equity triparty repo. Prior to joining ICAP he was in charge of global liquidity and collateral management at a major European bank.

Mr De Vidts is a regular speaker at conferences and frequently contributes articles related to the development of financial products and innovation in the financial markets.

Dan Marcus

MD, Strategy & Business Development, Tradition

Biography

Daniel Marcus is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic initiatives on a global basis, including planning for global regulatory change. Most recently he was responsible for the development and roll-out of Tradition’s hybrid OTC trading platform Trad-X. He is a qualified lawyer and joined Tradition in 2007 as General Counsel. Prior to joining Tradition, Daniel Marcus was Senior Counsel at the London Stock Exchange where he was responsible for regulatory, IT, corporate and commercial legal work. In particular he worked on the LSE’s successful defences against hostile bids from Deutsche Bourse, Nasdaq and Macquarie, as well as the acquisitions of Proquote, EDX and Borsa Italiana.

Giles Ward

Senior Policy Officer, MiFID & Short-Selling, European Commission

Biography

Giles Ward is a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission with responsibility for the Mifid, Market Abuse and Short Selling proposals. Prior to this he worked at Financial Services Authority in the areas of Financial Stability, Operational Risk and Conduct Policy. He has extensive experience working in both the public and private sectors as a qualified lawyer and economist and holds degrees from University of Cambridge and University of Sydney.

Barry King

Senior Associate, OTC Derivatives & Post-Trade, Financial Services Authority

Biography

Barry King is a Senior Associate in OTC Derivatives and Post Trade Policy at the Financial Services Authority, where his responsibilities include policy in relation to central counterparties, trade repositories, settlement and payment systems. He also leads the FSA's input to the EU legislation on OTC derivatives transactions, central counterparties and trade repositories and represents the FSA internationally at CPSS-IOSCO. He has held this role since April 2008. Previously to this Barry held posts at the FSA with responsibilities for policy development with respect to acquisitions, reinsurance, regulatory reporting and conduct of business standards. Barry has also worked at HM Treasury, including the negotiation of the EU regime for banks capital adequacy. He graduated from Southampton University in 2002 with a BSc in Economics.

Terence Nahar

Investment Director, Scottish Widows Investment Partners

Biography

As Investment Director within the Financial Solutions team Terence helps SWIP’s (Scottish Widows Investment Partnership) institutional clients meet the promises they've made to pensioners and policy holders in the most effective way through the development and management of (primarily) derivative and quantitative based solutions.

Terence joined SWIP from Royal London Asset Management where he was Head of Derivatives with responsibility for driving the company’s derivatives strategy. Before this, Terence was at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Co. He is a veteran financial market professional, seasoned in creating and managing derivatives solutions across the UK and continental Europe.

Natan Tiefenbrun

Commercial Director, LSE Baikal Global

Biography

Natan previously worked at Instinet where he was latterly President of International Division, responsible for DMA, portfolio trading, equity and FX Crossing, algorithmic trading businesses and for development of the firm's Execution Management Systems.