ShapingFX / Leaders in FX summit
At our inaugural Leaders in FX summit event, we explored how FX is navigating change and how technological developments are helping prepare it for the future. Leaders from across the public and private sectors gathered to network and share collective insights and ask: how prepared is the FX ecosystem for a rapidly evolving global financial landscape?
Keynote address:
Emmanuelle Assouan Director General Financial Stability and Operations – Banque de France
Director General Financial Stability and Operations
Banque de France
Emmanuelle Assouan has been Director General Financial Stability and Operations at the Banque de France since January 2023. She also chairs the Banque de France Climate Change Centre. Read full bio.
Panel 1: How global trends are moving toward shorter settlement cycles. The shorter the better?
Adrian Boehler / Global Head of Macro Sales / UBS
Lisa Danino-Lewis / Chief Growth Officer / CLS
James Kemp / Managing Director / GFMA
Lizzie Wilson / Global Head of Securities Services FX / J.P. Morgan
Panel 2: The role of digital currency in FX. Need a token? What is broken?
Dirk Bullmann / Managing Director, Policy, Innovation and Strategy / CLS
Thomas Dugauquier / Head of Digital Assets Product / Swift
Claudine Hurman / Director Innovation and Market Infrastructures / Banque de France
Scott Lucas / Managing Director / J.P. Morgan
Ousmène Jacques Mandeng / Senior Advisor / Accenture
Chief Growth Officer
Panel 1: Lisa is responsible for growing CLS’s client base globally, as well as the adoption of CLS’s broader portfolio of products focusing on three business lines – settlement, processing and data. She oversees the global client engagement team in Hong Kong, London, New York and Tokyo. Read full bio.
Global Head of Macro Sales
UBS
Panel 1: Adrian has over 30 years of industry expertise. Prior to joining UBS, he held a variety of senior FX roles at BNP Paribas, HSBC and Goldman Sachs. Adrian is Chair of the Board of GFXD – the Global FX Division of GFMA. Read full bio.
Managing Director
GFMA
Panel 1: James established the GFMA’s Global FX Division (GFXD) in 2010. The GFXD works with key regulators and supervisors on policy and regulatory developments, seeking to ensure harmonized regimes that enable an effective global FX market for all participants. Read full bio.
Global Head of Securities Services FX
J.P. Morgan
Panel 1: Lizzie is responsible for driving the strategy and delivery of first-class FX capabilities to our Securities Services clients. Lizzie partners with the Markets division to provide clients with fully integrated, transparent, efficient and flexible solutions for their FX needs. Read full bio.
Managing Director, Policy, Innovation and Strategy
CLS
Panel 2: Dirk represents CLS on all aspects of policymaker engagement and leads CLS’s innovation-related research activities. He joined CLS from the European Central Bank where he led the innovation team and the innovation lab in the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments. Read full bio.
Head of Digital Assets Product
Swift
Panel 2: Thomas is leading Swift’s product definition for Digital Assets. Prior to this, he held various positions at Swift in product definition, supporting the ISO20022 adoption and Swift solutions for Market Infrastructures. Read full bio.
Director Innovation and Market Infrastructures
Banque de France
Panel 2: Claudine’s Directorate is in charge of operating the French component of the Eurosystem Target Services, of financial market infrastructures, of resilience – including cyber resilience and exercising. Her Directorate is also in charge of experiments on wholesale central bank digital currencies. Read fill bio.
Shareholder Director
J.P. Morgan
Panel 2: In his current role, Mr. Lucas focuses on developing markets trading products driven off emerging DLT market capabilities that complement JP Morgan’s existing footprint and support client needs. Read full bio.
Senior Advisor
Accenture
Panel 2: Ousmène specializes in the economics of digital monies and the digital transformation of finance. He has advised on major central bank digital currency projects and has worked for more than 20 years in senior positions in financial markets and the International Monetary Fund. Read full bio.
Opening ADDRESS:
Chief Executive Officer
CLS
Marc has more than three decades in market infrastructure roles, positioning him well to lead CLS through the next phase of its evolution as it continues to strengthen its resilience, control functions and infrastructure as well as drive the uptake of its products. Read full bio.
Closing address:
Chair of the Board and Independent/Outside Director
Gottfried was the CEO of Swift from 2012 to 2019. Prior to this, he held several roles within Swift, including Head of Marketing, Head of Standards and Director of Strategy and Business Development. Before joining Swift, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company where he focused on financial institutions, specifically payments and transactions. Read full bio.
