Jeremy Venables

In charge of strategy and implementation of electronic market products across FICC. MTF and OTF oversight. Fully electronic repo trading platform. Auction and risk mitigation solutions. Focus on delivery of innovation to the company - Led the strategy and implementation of a regulated wholesale digital assets venue. Targeting the trading of cryptocurrencies and other tokenized assets, leveraging traditional protocols and custodians, alongside blockchain rails.

Global responsibility for the strategy and implementation of Tullett's hybrid and fully electronic trading systems. This included management of the global product and business development teams, as well as the day-to-day management of the customer platform operational support teams.

Overall responsibility for EMEA Broking eCommerce strategy, product development, implementation, sales & marketing. Delivery of full e-trading & Hybrid trading solutions for the division across multiple asset classes. CLOB, Auction based, semi dark and dark pool solutions, Volume matching, continuous matching solutions, RFQ, scrapbook odd-lot matching. Implemented from idea to delivery the strategic vision for ICAP’s Fusion Platform. An Omni-channelled web based trading and information portal that allows instant global delivery of ICAP’s services to clients in one leading designed place. Managed Sales/marketing, Product Management and CX design for the division.

CIO and deputy CIO many years experience managing overall technology business & budget. Led 120+ personnel on the demand side of IT. Focusing on implementing full end-to-end delivery of trading systems, back office solutions and STP, as well as providing overall project/programme delivery for the firm. Represented technology on various operation, executive and management committees. Including regulatory, internal and external audit and business continuity functions. Strong track record of staff retention, motivation and delivery. Overall leadership of Development, PMO, QA, Design and App Support. Initiated the simplification of architecture and normalisation of IT services. Implemented governance standards and PMO framework. Given combined responibility of eCommerce in 2013.

Various roles throughout this time. From Business Manager, Project Manager to Head of PMO and Product management division. Managed the delivery of many initiatives throughout the company both front, middle and back-office. Acquisitions, regulatory, STP and harding systems. Headed the PMO for 3 years. Prince2 practitioner. Designed & implemented ICAP’s Project and Programme management process. Presented at Gartner Programme Management Symposium. Topic ‘Good Governance not Bureaucracy’. Led the design, development and implementation of ICAP Credit Application – Voted trading system of the year 2008. Business & Project Manager, overall in charge of STP strategy and programme. Implemented ICAP’s trade notification accept/reject system and protocol. Now widely used across the industry and eventually implementated by the SwapsWire (MarkitWire) offering. ICAP was key early adopter helped design MW’s overall approach & operational model. Business manager Repo desk. Upon acquisition of BrokerTec integrated the BrokerTec Repo system into the voice. This was the first truly hybrid trading platform at ICAP. Promoted to Deputy CIO EMEA 2008

Based in Sydney. Improved the overall margining approach used by the SFE. Set specific standard and analytics for intraday monitoring of margins. In charge of setting all margin rates on the exchange. Strong client facing focus with the need to conduct regular client risk profiling and credit risk management visits. Regulation - Regular clearing house/exchange meetings with regulatory authorities to discuss market risks, systemic risks and overall SFE margining approach/methodology. Conducted various reviews of operation risk management within the firm. New inititiatives - Implemented the first offshore margining approach for clearing members without local operational presence. Led the product development, marketing and implementation of a new Bond and Repo Clearing system.

•In charge of setting and monitoring the margins on all LCH products across multiple products, financial futures & options, base metals, soft commodities, equities and interest rate swaps for all the London exchanges including LIFFE that had their cleared through LCH as the CCP. Strong understanding of Clearing House margining techniques and SPAN margining approach. Understanding VaR models. VBA/spreadsheet modeling. Management of RepoClear margining. Provided industry-training presentations for LCH member firms on SPAN Margining. Led LCH and designed the SwapClear Risk management from idea to launch. SwapClear is now the most successful IRS clearing product globally. Designed from scratch the Risk protocol and overall risk system for SwapClear. At the time was the first CCP risk manager to provide margining and x-margining solution of IRS vs. Futures products. Oversaw LCH’s Zero curve construction methodology, which was formerly ratified with industry leaders and practitioners. LIFFE Operations manager – Prior to moving to the Risk Management role spent 18mths working at LIFFE for LCH. Involved in monitoring exercise of options trading on the open outrcry pit. Conducted pit observer course. Day to day operation of the LIFFE clearing system. Helped in the management and physical delivery of Bund & Gilt Futures contracts.

Graduate trainee at Canada Life Assurance Company. Strong focus on sales, best practice, regulation, customer communication & role plays.