DTCC Names Andrew Douglas as Head of Public Affairs, Europe
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Andrew Douglas, a respected industry veteran, to lead its public affairs efforts in Europe.
In this position, Douglas will represent DTCC’s public policy positions to officials of the European Union (EU) and Member States. He will also represent DTCC in dealings with other European organisations, such as regulators, central banks and industry associations.
Douglas will be responsible for communicating DTCC’s European policy agenda and for building upon existing relationships with key individuals and groups in the public policy-making process. In addition, Douglas will represent DTCC at relevant forums, advise senior management on pending legislation and policy issues and provide input to DTCC line business managers about European issues relevant to their products.
He will be based in London and will report locally to Diana Chan, chief executive officer (CEO) of EuroCCP, in her capacity as head of the DTCC London Operating Committee. He will report functionally to Larry Thompson, DTCC General Counsel, in New York.
Douglas is joining DTCC from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), where he most recently served as head of that Belgium-based co-operative’s securities research and development team.
During his tenure at SWIFT, Douglas was instrumental in developing the ‘Giovannini protocol’, which harmonised communication standards among equity post-trade infrastructures in Europe. He was also responsible for the research and development of new business solutions for diverse sectors of the finance services industry, including insurance, Islamic banking and carbon trading.
Prior to joining SWIFT in 1999, Douglas spent two years as head of the middle office and client service teams for fixed income and money market products at Deutsche Bank’s investment bank, where he led initiatives aimed at eliminating the traditional investment banking vertical product focus. He began his financial services career in 1988 at Citibank, where he worked in the clearing and custody business and created and ran a team that sold Citibank’s South American sub-custody services to European banks. He was also in charge of the client service that supported Citibank’s European global custody and clearing businesses and its UK domestic custody operation.
Douglas is a highly regarded industry commentator on key European integration issues such as interoperability. He contributed to the work of the European Commission’s Clearing and Settlement Advisory and Monitoring Expert (CESAME) group and is a member of that group’s successor organisation, CESAME2.
He has an MBA from Manchester Business School and a BSc degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Surrey.