Who We Are: Secretariat Team

A long-term advocate for raising standards of conduct and ethics in financial markets, Myles McGuinness joined FMSB as CEO in June 2021. His career in investment banking spans 30 years across sales and structuring, deal origination, strategy development and the management of regulatory relationships. He has worked in the UK, the US and prior to joining FMSB, in the Netherlands, responsible for a pan European Capital Markets business.

Myles has chaired Reputational Risk Committees and held several Conduct and Risk committee roles, which included overseeing a Federal Reserve Board remediation programme.

He studied Economics and Geography at the National University of Ireland, Galway and received a MSc in Investment and Treasury from Dublin City University.

Chris is FMSB’s Director of Standards and General Counsel and has overall responsibility for all FMSB Working Groups and their publications. Since joining FMSB in April 2020 following a secondment from Linklaters, Chris has played a key role in delivering Standards, Statements of Good Practice and Spotlight Reviews on a broad range of topics including the execution of large trades, data sharing in a new issuance context, use of Term SONIA reference rates, LIBOR conduct risks and the development of risk management frameworks for hybrid working. He is also overseeing FMSB’s nascent and ongoing work on ESG, electronic trading and post-trade processes.

Prior to joining FMSB, Chris spent nine years at Linklaters in the Financial Regulation Group advising a wide range of investment banks, market infrastructure providers and buy-side institutions on numerous areas of UK and European financial regulation. In the fixed income, currencies and commodities space, he has worked on investigations into misconduct in FX businesses and subsequent remediation exercises. During his time at Linklaters, Chris undertook secondments at RBS, Deutsche Bank and BNP Paribas and has recently completed an Executive LLM in international financial law and regulation at the London School of Economics.

Mimi Yan joined FMSB in March 2022. Mimi has over a decade of experience in regulatory policy change across Capital Markets structuring, Risk, and Treasury functions.

Following her BA (Hons) in Law from Trinity College, Cambridge, Mimi began her career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch first in M&A financing, and then as a hybrid bond structurer in Debt Capital Markets, predominantly covering financial institution clients.

At Credit Suisse, Mimi served as acting head of EMEA Treasury Capital, before transferring to the Zurich office. There, she was global lead for Recovery Planning at Credit Suisse, working closely with Risk, global desk heads, chief operating officers and regulators, including FINMA, PRA, HKMA.
Mimi holds an LLM (Distinction) in Law and New Technologies from Birkbeck, University of London, with a focus on Regulation, Data Privacy and Intellectual Property.

Mimi works closely with Chris Rich, FMSB’s Director of Standards and General Counsel, on the development of the various FMSB publications, including supporting outputs from the Spreads, Rates, ESG and Post-Trade workstreams as well as the Legal Working Group.

Daniel joined FMSB in September 2025 as a Technical Director. Daniel has over 20 years of experience working in financial markets, including 18 years at BlackRock where he was latterly the Managing Director responsible for electronic trading and market structure across asset classes in Europe for seven years.

Prior to that he was BlackRock’s Global Head of Trading Research. He was a member of FMSB’s Standards Board for four years and also chaired its Electronic Trading and Technology Committee. He began his career at Barclays Global Investors in London as an Investment Researcher. Daniel has a PhD in Finance from the University of Cologne and is a qualified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).

Ted MacDonald joined FMSB in February 2022. He is a financial services practitioner having held senior roles in business origination, risk management, board-level governance, and more recently, regulation. He has helped transform banking teams and whole organisations and led major change initiatives for the UK Financial Conduct Authority. With a solid reputation for thought leadership and strategic thinking, he has also found time for mentoring staff at junior and middle management levels.

Following 35 years of intense industry responsibility, he joined the FCA in 2014 as an Advisor and stayed on as a Technical Specialist in Conduct & Culture. He published five thematic reviews and led their flagship ‘5 Conduct Questions’ program. This included the CEO Roundtable sessions on Leader Character, Corporate Purpose, Diversity & Inclusion and Psychological Safety. Most of his activity in conduct and culture has included elements of behavioural psychology.

Ted is a fully accredited Mediator and maintains strong links with academia including his favourite role as an unofficial ambassador for the Ivey Business School and the Leader Character Program. He relocated to London from Toronto in 1990.

Ted works closely with Chris Rich, FMSB’s Director of Standards and General Counsel, supporting the development of qualifications and thought leadership workstreams.

Sam joined FMSB in January 2020. Reporting to the Chief of Staff,  Sam provides operational support to the FMSB Secretariat, including membership and logistics.

Sam has experience supporting at board level, as Business Assistant & Company Secretarial Assistant. Prior to joining FMSB, Sam worked in the latent defects insurance sector for CRL Management Limited.

Carol joined FMSB in March 2020 and supports the Chair and Chief Executive Officer. She also assists the Chief of Staff and Secretariat with event planning and management, and special projects.
Carol has an extensive background in board and senior-level support and event management, most recently at Morgan Stanley.

She read Italian at the University of Reading.

Mitchell Wyatt is currently on secondment to FMSB from National Australia Bank Limited, with whom he has been employed since 2018 in Operational Risk & Compliance of the London branch.

Mitchell began his financial services career in 2004 at Invest Bank Plc, undertaking documentation and counterparty management. He then moved to the London branch of SEB in 2010, working as a Compliance Officer in the Bank’s Corporate & Institutional Banking division, before moving to NatWest Markets Plc in 2016 to undertake a Conduct & Compliance Officer role.