19 November 2024
9am – 6pm
Auditorium of the National Bank of Belgium
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19 November 2024
9am – 6pm
Auditorium of the National Bank of Belgium
This year, the ECSDA Conference will take place on Tuesday, 19 November, 09:00 to 18:00 CET at the Auditorium of the Belgian National Bank.
The ECSDA Conference will capitalise upon the achievements of the WFC Meeting organised by ECSDA and CSD Prague in May 2023. It will bring together the CSD ecosystem thought leaders and visionaries, participants and most advanced technological suppliers helping the community in building the European and global financial markets. We will concert the views with the leading European policy-makers and regulators and advise them on the post-trade priorities for building a true single European capital market.
The topics of settlement efficiency and shortening of the settlement cycle, new CMU priorities, FMI interoperability on settlement of Digital Assets and others will be under the attention of the Conference speakers and participants.
ECSDA will also hold a Senior CSD Industry Council the day after the conference.
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Javier Hernani took up his role of Head of the Securities Services business unit and he is member of the Executive Board of Six Group, since January 2021, after the takeover of BME by SIX. He is also CEO of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Sociedad Holding de Mercados y Sistemas Financieros, SA, since April 2017. He served as General Manager of BME from December 2012 to April 2017, with the specific role of coordinating the action of business units and corporate areas. Chairman of the Risk and Security Committees as well as Member of the board of several subsidiaries. Previously, he joined BME as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Executive Committee, assuming the role of conducting the integration process of the newly created group and leading the IPO process which took the company public as of 14th July 2006.
Prior to its incorporation to Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, Mr. Hernani was Deputy General Manager of the Bilbao Stock Exchange (until 2003), CFO of Norbolsa, S.V.B. (until 1998) and Consultant in Coopers & Lybrand Brussels (until 1989).
Mr. Hernani earned a Degree in Economics and Business by University of Deusto in 1986, a Master’s Degree in European Economic Studies, specialising in Economics, by The College of Europe in Brussels in 1988 and a Master’s Degree in Advanced Management by University of Deusto in 1997.
Ulrich Bindseil is Director General Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank (ECB), a post he has held since November 2019. Previously, he was Director General Market Operations (from May 2012 to October 2019) and head of the Risk Management Division (between 2005 and 2008). He first entered central banking in 1994, when he joined the Economics Department of the Deutsche Bundesbank, having studied economics. His publications include, among others, Monetary Policy Operations and the Financial System, OUP, 2014; Central Banking before 1800 – A Rehabilitation, OUP, 2019; Introduction to Central Banking (with A. Fotia), Springer, 2021; Introduction to Payments and Financial Market Infrastructures (with G. Pantelopoulos), Springer, 2023.
Samuel Riley is a member of the Executive Board and CEO of Clearstream Holding AG, Clearstream Securities Services. Sam joined Clearstream in 2019 and became Head of Investor Services & Financing in 2020.
Previously, he had a long-standing career at Citigroup, where he most recently served as Global Head of Custody Operations. His earlier responsibilities there included leading the EMEA Service Centres & Shared Services organisation and being an Executive Board Member of Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG.
Samuel Riley holds a degree in Business Management from Wolverhampton University.
Olga Jordão is the CEO of Euronext Securities Porto and the Head of Client Service of Euronext Securities, the unified network of Euronext CSDs.
While ensuring a continued strong presence of the Central Securities Depository in Portugal, Olga also oversees the pan-European client service teams to deliver service excellence to local and international clients.
Olga joined Euronext at a pivotal moment in 2021, when the group that operates the third largest CSD network in Europe combined its four CSDs into a new umbrella brand and launched its “Growth for Impact 2024” strategy. She has close to 30 years of professional experience in the post-trade sector and has held multiple roles in Luxembourg and in France heading up middle and back-office operations at a major global custodian, serving sophisticated global asset managers and leading strategic transformation projects. Olga is the former branch manager of State Street Bank International, Paris and also has vast experience in key account management, leading global teams and driving cross-functional initiatives.
Olga is a keen supporter of diversity, inclusion and sustainability initiatives. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English & German) from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and an Executive Masters of Business Administration from TRIUM (HEC, NYU, LSE).
Holger Neuhaus is Head of the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) Market Innovation and Integration Division in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. His Division develops the ECB/Eurosystem’s approach in relation to innovation and integration in the field of payments and post-trade services. In this context he coordinates the Eurosystem internal work and chairs a market contact group on settling wholesale financial transactions in central bank money in the presence of new technologies like DLT.
Until November 2019 he headed the Money Market and Liquidity Division which provides market analysis of euro area money markets and ensures the execution of monetary policy through the Eurosystem’s open market operations and liquidity management. It also had a lead role in developing and transitioning to a new reference interest rate for the money market. He has also worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Deutsche Bundesbank and in the private sector.
Ilse Peeters, Director, is the Head of Government Relations and Public Affairs at Euroclear SA/NV. Government Relations was part of the Euroclear Corporate Strategy Division until 2017. It is now part of the Compliance, Regulatory Management and Public Affairs Division.
Ms Peeters works closely with key EU public policy stakeholders on relevant industry issues, while ensuring the effective external communication of Euroclear’s strategy. Over the last ten years, she has been involved in the main regulatory initiatives that have shaped the post-trade industry. Her recent focus is on technological innovations such as Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and ICOs and their regulatory and legal challenges.
Mark Gem has been with Clearstream for over 20 years and a board member since 2007, focusing on network management, primary markets activity and compliance. He was responsible for Clearstream’s T2S strategy. He currently chairs Clearstream’s Risk Committee, amongst many other things oversaw the post-Brexit organisation of Clearstream’s UK business and Clearstream’s overall response to the COVID-19 crisis and to the war in Ukraine. He represents Luxembourg on the board of SWIFT. He has been on the board of ECSDA since 2002 and served as Vice-Chairman under Joël Mérère until 2013. In May 2024, Mark was re-elected ECSDA Chair.
Mark has a first class degree from Oxford University in Modern History.
Andrea Gentilini has been Head of Financial Market Infrastructures division of the
Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) since February 2017. He is also ESMA Internal Coordinator within the CSSF and represents the CSSF in several ESMA Standing Committees (MSC, RSC, CCP PC). Since March 2023, he has been appointed Chair of the ESMA Post Trading Working Group and co-Chair of the T2S Cooperative Arrangement. In May 2023 he joined the ESMA Board of Supervisor as Alternate Member for the CSSF.
Andrea Gentilini has been Chair of the CEMA EMIR Task Force, responsible for the
development of EMIR risk indicators, to promote data driven supervision and supervisory convergence, as well as knowledge sharing and peer learning.
Andrea Gentilini joined the CSSF in 2014 and has been working in the Financial Market Infrastructure Division ever since, contributing to the development of the CSSF’s authorisation process for CSDs under CSDR and support the work of the CSSF in the policy activity related to CSDR, EMIR and SFTR. Before joining the CSSF in 2014, he worked 15 years in the financial sector in Luxembourg (Senior Manager at PwC Luxembourg, portfolio manager in a Luxembourg based management company) and in China (Head of international business in a Chinese fund management company, based in Shenzhen).
Andrea Gentilini was born in Milan, Italy and studied economics at Bocconi University, where he obtained also a Master’s degree in economics. He is Lecturer at the IAE Nancy School of Management on post-trading and market infrastructures.
Andrea is married with 1 child. He holds Italian and Luxembourgish nationality
Jesús Sánchez has over 30 years in the industry in different positions, but mainly in the areas of Settlement and Custody.
He chairs the Settlement Working Group of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA), where the ECSDA CSDR Penalties Framework was agreed and with settlement efficiency being one of the key issues, and the Market Settlement Efficiency (MSE) workshop of T2S, where relevant issues regarding efficiency are assessed and support further discussions in national communities. He is also member of various market committees and expert groups at national and international level such as the T2S CSDs Steering Group (CSG), the Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo), the Spanish National Stakeholder Group (NSG).
Prior to joining Iberclear in 2006, he worked at Citibank for 14 years, being the head of respective Equities and Fixed Income Settlement departments.
He has a degree in Economics and Business by Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and an Executive Master of Business Administration.
Verena Ross is the Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She took up the role on 1 November 2021 and is responsible for representing the Authority as well as preparing the work of and chairing its Board of Supervisors and Management Board.
Between 2011 and 2021 Verena Ross served as ESMA’s first Executive Director, when she was responsible for building up the organisation and overseeing its day to day running.
Prior to this, Verena held a number of senior posts in the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and was a member of the FSA’s Executive Committee. Verena joined the FSA in 1998 to run the Executive Chairman’s office during the regulator’s start-up phase and was briefly a seconded advisor to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in 2000. She held various positions in the FSA’s Markets Division and was Director of Strategy & Risk Division before becoming Director of the International Division.
Verena is a German national. Following studies in Sinology and Economics in Hamburg, Taipei and London (SOAS) she began her career at the Bank of England in 1994, where she worked as an economist and banking supervisor.
Jens Hachmeister, Managing Director at Clearstream Holding AG is Head of New Digital Markets, Data & Issuer Solutions and a member of the Clearstream Management Board. After completing a banking apprenticeship and a degree in business administration, he began his career as a management consultant at KPMG before joining Xetra Market Development at Deutsche Börse AG in June 2000. Jens was Head of Operations and Infrastructure Development and part of the Management Committee Xetra until January 2009. From mid-April 2010 to December 2015, he was the Chief HR Officer of Deutsche Börse AG and in mid-August 2015, he assumed the newly created role of Chief of Staff and Head of Strategic Execution to the Group’s CEO. In April 2018, Jens created the New Digital Markets Area as one of the key pillars of Deutsche Börse’s DLT and blockchain strategy before taking on additional responsibility as Clearstream’s Head of Issuer Services in February 2020 and Data & Connectivity as of October 2022. In his current role he is driving the digitization of the company, its markets solutions, products and services.
Jesús Sánchez has over 30 years in the industry in different positions, but mainly in the areas of Settlement and Custody.
He chairs the Settlement Working Group of the European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA), where the ECSDA CSDR Penalties Framework was agreed and with settlement efficiency being one of the key issues, and the Market Settlement Efficiency (MSE) workshop of T2S, where relevant issues regarding efficiency are assessed and support further discussions in national communities. He is also member of various market committees and expert groups at national and international level such as the T2S CSDs Steering Group (CSG), the Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo), the Spanish National Stakeholder Group (NSG).
Prior to joining Iberclear in 2006, he worked at Citibank for 14 years, being the head of respective Equities and Fixed Income Settlement departments.
He has a degree in Economics and Business by Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and an Executive Master of Business Administration.
Note: All session timings below are in Central European Time (CET) and are subject to amendments
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Auditorium of the National Bank of Belgium, Rue Montagne aux Herbes Potagères 61, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
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SIX SIX provides and operates stable and efficient infrastructure for the Swiss and Spanish financial centers, thus ensuring access to the capital markets and the flow of information and money between financial market players. As a global provider of financial information, SIX delivers high-quality reference, pricing, corporate actions, and ESG data and provides regulatory services and indices to clients around the world. The company is owned by its users (more than 120 banks) with a workforce of 4,160 employees and a presence in 19 countries.
Euronext Securities Euronext Securities is the Euronext CSD network connecting European economies to global capital markets. We provide secure and resilient settlement and custody solutions and a portfolio of services to support our clients along the entire value chain. At the heart of the market infrastructure, we offer market participants an improved experience by streamlining operations and processes across our CSDs, supported by our continuously evolving technology. We ensure that we meet our clients’ needs by combining our global reach with multi-local, European expertise.
R3 R3 is a leading provider of enterprise technology and services that enable direct, digital collaboration in regulated industries where trust is critical. Multi-party solutions developed on our platforms harness the “Power of 3”— R3’s trust technology, connected networks and regulated markets expertise—to drive market innovation and improve processes in banking, international trade and capital markets.
As one of the first companies to deliver both a private, distributed ledger technology (DLT) application platform and confidential computing technology, R3 empowers institutions to realize the full potential of direct digital collaboration.
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