MiFID II: Ask the Experts Webinar

Leonard Ng is Co-head of the EU Financial Services Regulatory Group at Sidley Austin LLP in London. He advises a wide range of financial institutions on the ongoing changes to the UK and EU regulatory landscape. Leonard is a past board member of, and advisor to, the Managed Funds Association (MFA), the global trade association for hedge funds. Leonard also works closely with Sidley’s global regulatory team in advising clients on cross-border regulatory reform, in particular clients affected by overlapping US and EU regulations. Leonard spends a significant portion of his time advising clients on UK FCA complex compliance issues, the implementation of MiFID II, MAR, AIFMD, PRIIPs, EMIR, REMIT, Short Selling Regulation, Basel III/CRD IV, Solvency II and related regulatory initiatives. Leonard is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Daniel Shepherd has more than 20 years of multi-asset class experience in London, Hong Kong, and Japan across prime brokerages, electronic trading, low latency infrastructure, and financial regulation. Currently head of sales for TRADEcho, the real time trade reporting solution for the London stock exchange, Daniel has spent the past year and a half working with a team of industry, regulatory, and technical experts focused solely on providing solutions for the incoming MiFID II regulation.

David Nowell is Head of Industry Relations and Regulatory Compliance for UnaVista at the London Stock Exchange. He has over 20 years financial services experience on both sides of the regulatory fence, having worked previously for the FSA, Reuters and Credit Suisse. At Credit Suisse, he was Transaction Reporting Manager, responsible for ensuring compliance across all aspects of the reporting process and advising on new regulatory requirements. Prior to this, David was a Technical Specialist within the Transaction Monitoring Unit at the FSA, where he was responsible for shaping the transaction reporting rules and providing guidance to UK firms. David was the FSA’s representative on transaction reporting in Europe for a number of years where he was intimately engaged in policy negotiations with other regulators, giving him a unique insight into the policy making process and the regulators’ expectations of the industry. David is the Compliance Officer and lead subject matter expert for the UnaVista Trade Repository, both helping customers with the reporting of all derivatives asset classes and ensuring UnaVista Trade Repository complies with the EMIR requirements. David has also introduced industry accredited training courses on the subjects of both MiFID transaction reporting and EMIR trade reporting to help the industry improve the quality of reporting standards.

Hannah Meakin is a lawyer in the financial services team in London. She advises clients, mostly on the wholesale side of the industry, on a wide range of regulatory matters. Hannah has particular expertise in investment management, custody, brokerage, clearing and outsourcing related issues. Hannah also has particular experience of advising clients on perimeter issues, compliance with FSA Rules and implementation of European legislation (the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and the Capital Requirements Directive). She also advises on regulatory structuring issues involving fund set ups and transfers of business. She has also provided clients with training on various regulatory topics and provided regulatory audits for FSA authorised clients.

Manmeet Rana is a Director within Risk Advisory and has more than 10 years of regulatory consulting experience, covering MiFID, conflicts of interest and market abuse. Her areas of expertise include providing senior briefings, compliance effectiveness reviews, as well as tailored regulatory change implementation projects to a range of firms. Manmeet leads Deloitte’s UK MiFID II proposition, which includes client implementation work as well as industry liaison. She has published a number of articles in respect of MiFID II. Her MiFID II work includes review, analysis, business requirements definition and implementation planning. Manmeet also chairs the Deloitte Buy Side/ Sell Side MiFID II Forum.

Tom is in charge of product strategy for LSEG’s UnaVista post trade regulatory services, including MiFIR ARM and EMIR TR. Tom’s responsibilities include guiding the direction of UnaVista’s solutions and keeping LSEG post trade offerings at the forefront of regulatory, market and technology developments. Prior to joining LSEG, Tom headed financial services solutions at NexJ, led workforce planning and business intelligence products at Workbrain Inc., and worked in Product Management and Business Development at Siebel Systems. Tom holds an engineering degree from University of Waterloo and an MBA from Queen's School of Business.