Webinar: Illuminating MiFIR

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.

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.

Marcus has spent 20 years working within the software firms servicing clients in the financial services industry, operating throughout a variety of roles from implementation, consultancy and product management. Marcus started his career at Accurate Software, before moving to Checkfree and then Fiserv, where he held a variety of global responsibilities culminating in Presales covering the EMEA region. Upon joining the LSEG in 2007, Marcus’ global software experience quickly helped him to establish a pivotal role heading up the UnaVista Pre-Sales function. Acting as a conduit between the business development and product teams, Marcus’ experience in reconciliation, matching and regulations assisted the organisation in expanding out the UnaVista offering through enhanced reconciliation capabilities, MiFID transaction reporting and now EMIR, and acting as a “voice of the customer” internally, he ensures that UnaVista solutions are designed and configured to meet market demands.