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Operations Committee and Working Groups

Operations Committee

  • North America Co-Chair: Garth Barker-Goldie (JP Morgan Chase)
  • European Co-Chair: Kathy Wallis (Royal Bank of Scotland)
  • Japan Co-Chair: (See Japan Committee)
  • Asia Pacific co-chair (North Asia): Mandy Chan, Senior Manager, Structured Rates, Credit and FX Derivatives Operations, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
  • Asia Pacific co-chair (South East Asia): Sheila Thangavelu, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia (Singapore) Pte
  • Global Staff Contact: Caroline Gadsby (cgadsby@isda.org)
  • Asia Pacific Staff Contact: Way Yee Bay (wybay@isda.org)
  • North America Staff Contact: Karel Engelen (kengelen@isda.org)

Operations Working Groups

Operations Credit Derivatives Working Group
This group looks at the development of standards and the advancement of automation in credit derivatives operations.

Chair: Tara Kruse, Bear Stearns
Staff contact: Karel Engelen, kengelen@isda.org

Operations Equity Working Group
This Group promotes and measures the advance of automation into equity derivatives processing, it also keeps under review the array of Master Confirmations with a view to potential additions to the range.
Chair: Valentino Wotton, Citigroup
Staff Contact: Caroline Gadsby (cgadsby@isda.org)

Operations Interest Rates Products Working Group
This Group is responsible for the maintenance of the Cash Settlement matrix and will consider standalone policy issues such as the usage of early termination options. It also drives standardization in respect of more detailed rates products characteristics and elections.

Chair: Jamie Brigstock, Citigroup
Global Staff Contact: Carmen Neumann (cneumann@isda.org)

Commodities Operations Working Group

This Group covers familiar OTC derivatives operations issues such as standardization of confirmations; promotion of automation, metrics etc.
Chair: Graeme McEvoy, Goldman Sachs
Staff contact: Johanna Schwab (jschwab@isda.org)

Settlements Working Group
Staff contact: Karel Engelen, kengelen@isda.org

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