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.

Ana Victoria Anderson Martinez is currently on secondment to FMSB from EY, where she works in the Conduct and Non Financial Risk team within the Wealth and Asset Management practice.

Ana V began her career in financial services during her placement year at EY and she returned to the firm in 2025 after completing her degree in Law with International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, and has since focused on supporting firms with conduct risk, governance, and broader non financial risk management.

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.

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 sustainable finance, 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.

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).

Javier joined FMSB in April 2026 as Technical Director. Javier is a dual-qualified European lawyer and English solicitor with over 20 years of experience in legal, regulatory compliance and conduct across capital markets, investment banking and sales and trading.

Javier has held senior global leadership roles in risk and compliance within major international banking institutions, including most recently serving as Chief Compliance Officer EMEA for Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, where he was also responsible for leading Global Conduct, Reputational Risk and ESG compliance initiatives.

Javier studied law at the University of Navarre, Spain, where he also serves as an Associate Professor of Business Ethics teaching on the Master’s in Banking and Financial Regulation.

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, Sustainable Finance and Market Infrastructure and Operations workstreams as well as the Legal Working Group.

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.

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.