Anna Bruce Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for supporting the Front Office in executing daily functions such as trade reconciliation, reporting, corporate actions and trade settlement. Conducts regular reconciliations of portfolios. Provides cash management analyses to support asset allocation decisions. Manages relationships with custodians and third-party administrators in identifying and resolving issues.

Remote

*Duties: Proxy voting and administration, collateral processing, FX confirmation and query resolution, procedure review and improvement*Subject Matter Expert, providing training on: Corporate Action processing, CTM Archive, ISS Proxy Exchange*Independent Project work: ALERTGC Custodian on-boarding and testing, *Collaborative Project work: Member of Trade Flow + Corporate Action Change Working Groups*Platforms:FailStation, DTCC: CTM Archive, CTM, Connect, ALERT, FXALL Settlements Center, IHS Markit thinkFoilo, SimCorp Dimension, Bloomberg, BBH Infomediary- Data Manager, InfoMonitor, InfoFX Live,ISS ProxyExchange, Northern Trust Passport,CitiDirect for Securities,CitiDirect BE, BBH Worldview, J.P.Morgan Markets,State Street CApTAIN, BNY Mellon NEXEN, BNP Paribas NeoLink, Mitsubishi UFJ Globeview

New York, New York, United States

*Primary point of contact for local internal escalation, custodian relationship management, vendor and client trade queries for the USA*Working with management on local team objectives, task allocations, training needs and performance reviews. *Representing Ashmore in DTCC Fixed Income Forum and vendor update meetings *Evaluating new vendor offerings (Bloomberg STP/ DTCC Benchmarks and Data Feeds) for suitability at Ashmore and presenting findings to management*Reviewing Operating Memorandums, custodian on-boarding questionnaires, participating in client calls *Administrator for custodian websites, BBH Infomediary products, DTCC ALERT/CTM/Connect*Reviewer and approver of Corporate Actions, cash payments and FX (CitiDirect)

Arlington, Virginia (2014-2016) New York, New York (2016-2018) United States

* Trade flow, confirmation and settlement monitoring of emerging market equities (ADR/GDR/Common Stock/ IPOs), LATAM fixed income, bilateral IRS and third-Party FX (BRL, COP, CLP) *Central role establishing global trade support model for Transaction Processing teams. Supporting and training colleagues in London and Singapore, building out hand- over processes and universal standards.*Corporate Actions (Mandatory/Voluntary/Stock Conversions): Reviewing custodian notifications and consolidating for portfolio managers, instructing custodians and reflecting entitlements in SimCorp Dimension. Assisting legal team and damages analyst on class action Claims. Periodically reviewing controls and new vendor offerings for presentation to management *Proxy voting via ISS ProxyExchange, monthly reporting and new account set up. Analysis of portfolio and ballot quota for annual contract negotiation*Leading departmental vendor upgrade testing (SimcorpDimension. BBH Infomediary, thinkFolio)*New Broker and Client on-boarding. New portfolio operational set up and custodian transitions *Developing new client work flows and presenting business cases to increase control and mitigate risk *Presenting to external Auditors and internal Compliance teams (ISAE 3402 and SEC)Projects*Project lead for ALERTGC onboarding: planning, testing and executing successful SSI transitions for 4 Custodians. *Project Lead for implementation of Bloomberg Failstation: 13 Custodians *Regional Project Subject Matter Expert (SME): FX Cover flow. Deployment of FX Cover tagging (thinkFolio- SimcorpDimension - BBH Infomediary – DTCC Connect) User Acceptance Testing, documenting procedures and training coworkers*As Transaction Processing SME for SWIFT messages, worked with IT team and custodians to successfully test and implement MT502, MT509 and MT515 for inter-fund dealing

London, England, United Kingdom

*Ensuring timely and accurate trade confirmation and settlement (DTCC CTM/ Connect) Focusing on corporate and local government debt.Working closely with traders, custodians and counterparties. Investigating and resolving failing trades and payments. Representing Ashmore at DTCC client forums and assisting in Custodian and Broker service reviews *Running the FX confirmation and netting process including exception management (FXALL and NDF long forms)*Collateral Management (SimCorp Dimension) – Reviewing, validating and agreeing margin calls, processing payment and receipt instructions to Custodians and investigating non receipts*Fixed Deposit, Commercial Paper, Certificate of Deposit and Repo query resolution*Processing IRS and TRS positions: fee and cash flow agreement, payment and term sheet processing *Initiating and investigating Interest claims due to late payments and overdrafts Projects:*Insourcing of the fixed income and equity confirmation processWorking with business analysts to define and then refine the new work flow. Building static and maintaining coding for trade flow control and enrichment. Testing and documenting new work flows, creating procedures, inboxes and training co-workers on the new process * Collateral management- streamlining methods of custodian instruction, testing new Collateral module and providing feedback to Simcorp

London, England, United Kingdom

*Providing daily servicing for Investment Outsourcing Operations investment manager clients*Managing trade matching and settlements - both emerging and developed markets *Working with the client, executing brokers, custodians, and interested third parties to resolve trade capture, confirmation, settlement and ad hoc queries

Surrey, England, United Kingdom

*Managing Clearstream settlements for German and English speaking clients (CreationOnline)*Processing retail client subscription and redemption requests, loading and matching instructions*Investigating and resolving failed trades with German speaking brokers