James Upton Email & Phone Number

Epsom, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

COO for the Repo Clearing and Collateral/Liquidity businesses at LCH Ltd in LSEG’s Post Trade division

London, United Kingdom

I manage relationships with agent banks, ICSDs and CSDs. I am responsible for shaping and implementing strategy for the LCH Repo and Equity Clearing business. I maintain and develop relations with banks and post trade providers including exchanges and MTFs. I am responsible for driving the production of strategy documents including board papers and presentations to central banks and regulators. Internally, I lead a pillar of an employee initiative that focuses on Executive Ctte engagement and was responsible for increasing LCH mentoring participation by >80% in 2018.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

- Responsibility for developing and enhancing Secured Funding products and services that are used by global investment banks on a daily basis- Product and Operating model lead for Global initiatives where LCH seeks to expand geographical footprint: I lead a team that is designing and building consensus with 10 global investment banks and several global investment managers on the design and operating model for a new fixed income clearing offering.- Tangible working knowledge of the current key challenges impacting the Secured Funding environment, for example: the Basel III capital and liquidity framework- Strong and current working knowledge of the bilateral and Triparty settlement environments gained from trusted working partnerships with both ICSDs and Triparty agents.

Emea

Global Head Of Funding / Repo Trade Management Operations:- Responsibility for 40 staff globally from analyst to Vice President level (Americas, EMEA, Asia)- Department covers all aspects of secured and unsecured funding trade management:- Middle Office support for multiple business units- Control, payments, confirmations and reconciliations- Risk assessments and submissions- Response to industry and regulatory mandates - Broad experience in Liquidity Management, specifically structured liquidity management solutions including those in new / Emerging Markets, partnering with Corporate Treasury and Liquidity / Repo Trading Desks.- Strong experience of the Triparty Repo product- Experience in OTC Collateral Rehypothecation- Experience in OTC Optimization- Spearheaded a team of 7 regionally elected Operations 'Industrialists' - a specialist Executive Director / Vice President group charged with enabling a culture of process improvement across the organisation. - Personally organised and hosted a project for a group of 30 Operations interns to investigate the industrialization topic and present back findings in group presentations.

London, United Kingdom

- Managing a team of 5 SME’s and project managers in EMEA focusing on Funding projects and product development- Team delivered multiple strategic and product initiatives enabling the firms Repo and Global Liquidity Product desks to increase revenue and the term nature of the Funding book- Personally focused to provide global thought leadership to replace the suite of front to back Repo trade booking and processing systems- Contributed to various corporate governance processes including new activities committees and interactions with global regulators- Participation in industry working groups to promote greater harmonization of Funding and Repo processes across the industry

London, United Kingdom

- Supported Salespeople in the post execution handling of fixed income and derivative products- Produced performance metrics that were used in ‘broker reviews’ with clients- Assisted with development of client confirmation platforms and industry systems - Represented Goldman Sachs on industry ‘Inter-broker’ forum- Helped to develop GS infrastructure in new Bangalore, Dubai and Moscow offices- Last 18 months of role were spent managing a team of 7

London, United Kingdom

- Responsible for all aspects of Euroclear settlement processing and problem solving.

London, United Kingdom

- One of the first employees of young firm that was set up to perform operations and risk functions for multi strategy hedge funds- Personally managed the operations functions for up to 3 hedge funds at once- Responsibilities included liaison with prime brokers and counterparts, settlement, funding and cash Management, collateral Management, revaluation, cash injections and disbursements, profit and loss analysis and training of other analysts

Kingswood, Surrey, United Kingdom

Analyst role working to sell ISA products to retail investors

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Economics And Politics

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