This page sets out information about our member firms, our decision-making forums, and our central team.
Our membership is designed to be representative of the global wholesale financial markets.
Member firms

Full Members
abrdn
AstraZeneca
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited
BAE Systems
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Barclays
BHP
BlackRock
Bloomberg
BNP Paribas
BNY Mellon
BP
Citigroup Global Markets Limited
Full Members
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Crédit Agricole CIB
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
DTCC Europe Limited
Goldman Sachs
HSBC
Invesco
J.P. Morgan
Linklaters (Legal Advisor)
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets plc
Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc
Full Members
National Australia Bank
NatWest Markets
Nomura
Refinitiv
Rio Tinto
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Mail Group
Santander CIB
Shell plc
Société Générale
Standard Chartered
UBS
Vodafone
Westpac Banking Corporation

Associate Members
Mizuho International plc
Tradition
XTX Markets

Partner Members
Association of Corporate Treasurers
Financial Services Culture Board
KPMG
Oliver Wyman
Standards Board for Alternative Investments
World Gold Council
There are four levels of FMSB membership: Full, Associate, Corporate, and Partner.
Adherence
Our Members are expected to adopt FMSB Standards in their businesses (where relevant) and to evidence this through an annual Statement of Commitment.
Advisory Council
Name | Company Name |
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Gareth Murphy | abrdn |
Paul Moore | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited |
Jonathan Slade | AstraZeneca |
Raj Patara | BAE Systems |
Filippo Zorzoli | Barclays |
Stewart Cox | BHP |
Jatin Vara | BlackRock |
Hubert De Lambilly | BNP Paribas |
Paul Matherne | BNY Mellon |
Zack Starbird | BP |
James Bardrick | Citigroup Global Markets Limited |
Chris Mclachlan | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
Walid Assaf | Crédit Agricole CIB |
Nick Lovett | Credit Suisse |
David Wayne | Deutsche Bank |
Patrick Street | Goldman Sachs |
Kathleen J. Yoh | Independent Member |
Guy America | J.P. Morgan |
Michael Kent | Linklaters (Legal Advisor) |
Nick Hughes | Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets plc |
Clare Woodman | Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc |
Donal Quaid | NatWest Group |
John Goff | Nomura |
Neill Penny | Refinitiv |
Maurita Sutedja | Rio Tinto |
David Thomas | Royal Bank of Canada |
Peter Millington | Santander CIB |
Sam Critchlow | Shell plc |
Mohamed Braham | Société Générale |
Bruno Lettich | Standard Chartered |
Christophe Patricot | UBS |
Nell Hutton | Westpac Banking Corporation |
Partner Members
Name | Company Name |
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Karim Haji | KPMG |
Christian Edelmann | Oliver Wyman |
Luke Ellis | Standards Board for Alternative Investments |
Standards Board
Name | Company name |
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Louise Drummond | abrdn |
Paul Moore | Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited |
Mauricio Sada-Paz | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Matthew Coupe | Barclays |
Stewart Cox | BHP |
Daniel Mayston | BlackRock |
Mark Flatman | Bloomberg |
Alex Benech | BNP Paribas |
Rosie Murphy Williams | BNY Mellon |
Mark Meredith | Citigroup Global Markets Limited |
Mark Baillie | Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
Daniel Morley | Deutsche Bank |
James Kemp | Global Financial Markets Association |
Nikhil Choraria | Goldman Sachs |
Chris Dickens | HSBC |
Karim Awenat | Invesco |
Charles Bristow | J.P. Morgan |
Michael Kent | Linklaters (Legal Advisor) |
Rob Hale | Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets plc |
David Bateman | National Australia Bank |
Jonathan Peberdy | NatWest Markets |
Olek Gajowniczek | Nomura |
Maurita Sutedja | Rio Tinto |
Christophe Coutte | Royal Bank of Canada |
Jan Lundstrom | Santander CIB |
Bruno Lettich | Standard Chartered |
Hannah Falth | UBS |
Emma Norman | Westpac Banking Corporation |
Partner Members
Name | Company name |
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James Winterton | Association of Corporate Treasurers |
Alison Cottrell | Financial Services Culture Board |
Peter Rothwell | KPMG |
Catherine Brown | Oliver Wyman |
Thomas Deinet | Standards Board for Alternative Investments |
David Tait | World Gold Council |
Committees & Working Groups
Market Practices
Market Practices Committee
Precious Metals Working Group – David Tait, Chair
Conduct & Ethics
Conduct & Ethics Committee – Tracey McDermott CBE, Chair
Three Lines of Defence Working Group – Alan Leigh, Chair
Electronic Trading & Technology
ETTC Committee
Algo Model Risk Working Group – Ciara Quinlan, Chair
ESG
ESG Committee – Caroline Haas, Chair
Post-Trade
Post Trade Committee – David Hudson, Chair
Client Onboarding Working Group – Siobhan Clark, Chair
Non-Economic Trade Data Working Group – Tim Mcleod, Chair
Uncleared Margin Working Group – Philip Glackin, Chair
Legal Working Group
Michael Kent, Chair
Pro bono support
Many thanks to those who have provided invaluable pro bono support to FMSB and have been instrumental in the production of our Standards, Statements of Good Practice, and Spotlight Reviews.
KPMG
Roger Acton – Member of the Conduct & Ethics Sub-Committee, including a number of the associated working groups, and former FMSB Secretariat Secondee.
Karim Haji – Partner Member of the FMSB Advisory Council.
James Lewis – Member of the IBOR Transition Working Group.
Lucas Ocelewicz – Member of the Electronic Trading and Technology Committee, and the Conduct & Ethics Sub-Committee.
Peter Rothwell – Partner Member of the FMSB Standards Board.
Oliver Wyman
Catherine Brown – Partner Member of the FMSB Standards Board.
Christian Edelmann – Partner Member of the FMSB Advisory Council.
Serge Gwynne – Member of the IBOR Transition Working Group.
Hiten Patel – Member of the Electronic Trading and Technology Committee.
Olivia Richards – Member of the Conduct & Ethics Sub-Committee.
Financial Markets Standards Board Limited
FMSB is formally governed by way of a legal entity, Financial Markets Standards Board Limited.
Financial Markets Standards Board Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (registered number 09732893) with the registered office c/o Hackwood Secretaries Limited, One Silk Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2Y 8HQ. The auditors to Financial Markets Standards Board Limited are BDO LLP. Financial Markets Standards Board Limited is a not-for-profit organisation funded by member subscriptions. The company changed its name from FICC Markets Standards Board Limited in April 2022.

Jonathan Moulds, CBE
Chair & Director
Jonathan joined Financial Market Standards Board (“FMSB”) in June 2023 as Chair and Director of FMSB Limited and Chair of the FMSB Advisory Council.
Having worked in the UK, US and Asia during his 25+ year executive career, Jonathan spent the majority of his career at Bank of America where he became head of Bank of America’s international businesses and subsequently European President of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the CEO of Merrill Lynch International following the merger of the two companies in 2009.
Until December 2016, Jonathan was Group Chief Operating Officer at Barclays Plc. Since then, he has assumed a number of non-executive roles and is the Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Risk Committee at IG Group, the listed global leveraged trading platform, Chair of Citi’s International Broker Dealer CGML and Chair of Litigation Capital Management, a listed litigation finance provider focused on global commercial disputes.
During his executive career, Jonathan has been active in numerous industry bodies including as Chair of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), an inaugural Board member of the Association of Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and a Board member of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). He was the founding Chair of OTCDerivNet (the online clearing initiative for OTC products).
Jonathan has a long-standing commitment to music education, both from his experience as a player and benefactor. Among his many charitable interests, Jonathan is Chair of the Advisory and Development Boards of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).
In 2015, he received a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for his philanthropic work for various charities including the LSO. He holds a first-class honours degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Philippa Foster Back CBE
Senior Independent Director
Philippa Foster Back CBE has been the Senior Independent Director of Financial Markets Standards Board Limited since 1 January 2022 and has been a Director since June 2020.
Until April 2020 she was a Director of the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), a role she has held since 2001. The IBE’s work is focused on promoting high standards of business behaviour based on ethical values.
Philippa was previously Group Treasurer at EMI Group, Group Finance Director at DC Gardner Group and Group Treasurer at Bowater. Philippa has also held a number of trustee, major review committee and non-executive roles throughout her career. She is a past President of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) and is currently a BEIS/FRC Wates Coalition Group member, a member of the ACT and Finance Leasing Association (FLA) Advisory Panels, and was a non-executive director of the CISI Board as well as a member of its Integrity Forum until July 2020.

Charles Nichols
Director & Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee
Charles has been a Director of Financial Markets Standards Board Limited since January 2017 and was the Senior Independent Director until 31 December 2021.
Charles spent 31 years at Unilever where he held various financial and general management roles, including the senior management positions of Group Treasurer, Group Controller and Executive Vice President respectively. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Unilever UK Pension Fund and chairs the Investment and Funding Committee of this Pension Fund. Charles is also a Director of Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC and Chair of its Audit Committee.

Niki Beattie
Director & Chair of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee
Niki Beattie has been a Director of Financial Markets Standards Board Limited since June 2020. Niki has extensive corporate governance experience on the boards of both listed and private companies in financial markets, as well as serving on two European regulatory committees.
Niki is a non-executive director of IRESS, a listed Australian financial technology company, and Kepler Cheuvreux International, the French brokerage company. She was the Chair of Aquis Exchange PLC, a pan-European MTF, until 31 December 2021 and the Chair of XTX Markets Limited, a quantitative-driven electronic market-maker, until 30th September 2022.
Niki is also the CEO and Founder of Market Structure Partners, an independent consulting firm providing strategic advice on financial market structure issues to global exchanges, clearing houses, technology firms, market participants and government bodies. She is a member of ESMA’s Secondary Markets Advisory Committee, and was also a member of the FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee for 6 years. Prior to setting up Market Structure Partners, Niki spent 14 years at Merrill Lynch across a number of roles, including EMEA Head of Market Structure.

Michael Cole-Fontayn
Director
Michael has been a Director of Financial Markets Standards Board Limited since March 2019.
Michael is a Director of JP Morgan Securities PLC and the Chair of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI). CISI is the largest professional body for the securities and investment profession in the UK. He was the Chair of the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) from September 2015 until June 2021.
Michael was previously EMEA Chair of BNY Mellon, responsible for governance, culture and strategy development across the region.
Before taking up the EMEA Chair of BNY Mellon, he spent 25 years in various roles at both BNY Mellon and Bank of New York in London, Hong Kong and New York.

Myles McGuinness
Chief Executive Officer & Director
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.

Edward Ocampo
Director
Edward became a Director of Financial Markets Standard Board Limited in March 2019.
Edward is a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Board Risk Committee at J.P. Morgan Securities plc. He is also an Independent Member of the ICE Swap Rate & Term Reference Rate Oversight Committee and an Affiliate of Rutter Associates LLC.
From 2018 to 2022 he was an Advisory Director at Quantile Technologies Limited and from 2014 to 2018 he was a Senior Advisor at the Bank of England. Previously at Morgan Stanley for 24 years where he held a number of senior roles and most recently was Head of Fixed Income Risk Management for EMEA and a Director of Morgan Stanley’s UK bank.
Edward received his MBA degree from Stanford University in 1983 and his AB degree in Economics from Princeton University in 1979.

Stephen O’Connor
Director
Stephen has been a Director of Financial Markets Standards Board Limited since December 2018.
Stephen is the Chair and founder of Quantile Technologies Limited, which provides portfolio risk management services for derivative markets. He is the Chair of HSBC Bank plc and was a Non-Executive Director of London Stock Exchange Group plc until August 2021.
He was a Non-Executive Director of GE Capital International Holdings Ltd between 2015 and 2017 and of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) between 2009 and 2014 including three years as Chair. He was also the Chair of OTC Deriv Ltd between 2001 and 2011. Stephen was at Morgan Stanley for 25 years where he was a Managing Director and Member of the Fixed Income Division Management Committee. Stephen is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Our team – the FMSB Secretariat
The FMSB team is made up of dedicated personnel with many years of experience in the financial world.

Alison Parker
Chief of Staff
Alison joined FMSB in November 2018. As Chief of Staff, she manages the day-to-day operations of the Secretariat and the business of Financial Markets Standards Board Limited, and provides support to the various FMSB governance fora. Alison read Law at Edinburgh University and then qualified as a Chartered Accountant while at Coopers and Lybrand, before moving to Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) where she became the Global Head of Compensation and Executive Compensation. After leaving CSFB, she undertook various freelance compensation consultancy roles, ran various private property businesses and was a partner in her family farming business.

Carol Boag
Business Assistant
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 Rich
General Counsel and Head of Standards
Chris is FMSB’s General Counsel and Head of Standards 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
Senior Technical Specialist
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 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.

Samantha Smith
Secretariat Support
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.

Ted MacDonald
Senior Technical Specialist
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 General Counsel, supporting the development of qualifications and thought leadership workstreams.

Vic Silverman
Head of Communications
A Reuters-trained journalist, Vic joined FMSB in February 2022 having worked across the media and financial sectors for more than 15 years, including at Deloitte, ITV, Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv and London Stock Exchange Group.
A former director in Thomson Reuters’ Innovation group, Vic moved to support Refinitiv’s CEO and leadership team ahead of its acquisition by the London Stock Exchange Group in February 2021.
She has a master’s degree in criminology from Wolfson College, Cambridge University, and is an advisor to the charity Urban Synergy.

Rosie Garwood
EY Secondee
Rosie joined FMSB in May 2023 on secondment from Ernst & Young (EY).
Rosie initially joined EY as a business consultant in September 2022 working on a variety of projects within Sustainable Finance at EY.
Rosie has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics with Spanish from Exeter University.