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Summary
With T+1 settlement increasing the need for speed and accuracy, organizations are rethinking callback authentication processes. Join our webinar where we'll be exploring current challenges, compare authentication approaches, and discuss the role of federated models in improving both compliance and operational efficiency.
Discussion points:
- Challenges with the current callback process, particularly with respect to T1 transition.
- Different authentication methods, and balancing practicality against compliance risk.
- Federated/communal approaches to authentication.
Speakers
Mimi Yan
Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB)
Technical Director
Mimi Yan is a Technical Director at the Financial Markets Standards Board, with responsibility for the Market Infrastructure and Operations Committee. This group’s remit includes topics such as the standardisation of SSIs, client onboarding, and digital identity. She also sits on the SteerCo and co-leads the Operational Issues working group for the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce.
Mimi has extensive experience in regulatory policy change across Capital Markets structuring, Risk, and Treasury functions, beginning her career in M&A financing, and then as a hybrid bond structurer in Debt Capital Markets, predominantly covering financial institution clients. Subsequent roles have included acting head of EMEA Treasury Capital and global lead for Recovery Planning, where she worked closely with Risk, global desk heads, chief operating officers and regulators, including FINMA, PRA, HKMA.
Mimi holds a BA (Hons) in Law from Trinity College, Cambridge and an LLM (Distinction) in Law and New Technologies from Birkbeck, University of London, focused on Regulation, Data Privacy and Intellectual Property.
Marc Roy
Citi
SVP, Reference Data Operations
Marc is a financial services professional with over 35 years of banking experience, specializing in reference data, operations, and technology processes. He currently serves as Senior Vice President within Accounts and SSI Operations at Citi, where he leads the Standard Settlement Control Unit. In this role, Marc directs a global department servicing multiple business lines under a follow-the-sun model, managing a team of 29 across Poland, The Philippines, and Argentina dedicated to the authentication of high-risk and cash settlement instructions.
Since joining Citi in 2010, Marc has held several leadership positions. As the head of the Business Reporting team (2021–2024), he managed reporting operations and implemented robust ACG-level controls across Buffalo and Olsztyn. Prior to this, as the lead for the SSI Data Quality team (2016–2021), Marc successfully managed the retirement of the TradePlus vendor platform, brought the Standard Settlement Instruction (SSI) process for Alert in-house, and migrated over one million high-risk FX SSIs into the central repository. He has also served as VP of Business Planning and Analysis (2013–2016) and AVP within the Accounts Control Group (2010–2012).
Prior to his tenure at Citi, Marc built an extensive career at other major global financial institutions. He worked as a Business Analyst in Reference Data Tech (IT) at Nomura International Plc (2008–2010) and spent eight years at Lehman Brothers International Europe (2000–2008) in several capacities, including Business Analyst for Enterprise Data Services (IT), Project Manager, and Supervisor for Customer Accounts Services. He began his career with foundational roles at Banque Nationale de Paris in Static Data (1997–2000) and at National Westminster Bank Plc (1990–1997), where he supervised the Fraud Liaison team for the North London service centre.
Marc's expertise in operational risk management, data quality governance, reference data, and leading large-scale cross-functional global teams makes him a distinguished voice in financial operations and controls.
SSImple
Bill Meenaghan
CEO & Founder
A dedicated and respected experienced Financial Services executive with an excellent knowledge of all operations functions including trade processing, onboarding, reconciliations, valuations, accounting, performance and risk control across multiple asset types. Excellent analytical skills across trade lifecycle activities ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of daily processes. A proven track record of successfully delivering large projects from idea to completion. An inspirational leader with an ability to develop high performing individuals and teams and a skilled influencer who can find mutually satisfactory solutions to conflicting stakeholder requirements and develop strategy to deliver operational transformation.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Dougie McClumpha
Head of Strategy & Innovation, Client Lifecycle & Regulatory Solutions
Dougie is part of the Commercial leadership group for Regulatory & Compliance Solutions, and is responsible for advancing and executing strategic initiatives.
Since joining S&P Global in 2015, he has developed extensive expertise supporting financial institutions in the transformation their client lifecycle management operating models. Dougie has served in a number of functions stretching across multiple domains including KYC, Onboarding and Lifecycle Management. During his time with the organisation, he has been responsible for implementing technology-based and data-driven regulatory & compliance solutions to global investment banks and asset managers, most recently executing the delivery of our flagship CLM Pro solution.
Dougie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry from the University of Durham.
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