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Financial Markets Electronic Trading and Digitisation Specialist
Declan Clements
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London, United Kingdom
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Expert on Foreign Exchange, fascinated by Fintech, broad skills from a long career in the Financial Markets and excited by new technology and innovation
Markets
United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
French
Good
Available
My experience
2019 - ?
freelance
Fintech Consultant
FinFX Consulting Ltd.
Finance, Strategy, Funding, Lean startup, Project Management, Business development, Business strategy
2010 - 2019
job
Head of Financial Markets eCommerce Africa & Middle East
Standard Chartered Bank.
Led 8-year project to digitise SCB Financial Markets electronic pricing, trading, risk-management and compliance
Operating like a start-up inside a large organisation, my team transformed Standard Chartered's Financial Markets trading
function, digitising pricing, trade capture, analysis, risk management and trade processing, and opened up the banks cross-border and mobile payments capabilities globally.
Responsible for business strategy, design, implementation and product ownership of SCB's Straight2Bank exchange (S2BX)
electronic trading platform, from inception. Electronic FX trades self-originated by clients reached over 80% of all client FX
trades in 2017, from 9% in 2009 (2017 6 million trades, $8 trillion volume, $500 million P/L). Developed associated compliance
systems to manage and report MIFID II Best Execution obligations globally for the bank.
Alongside this global product management role, was responsible for all regional requirements across Africa, MENAP and South
Asia, (29 presence countries) including ensuring system resilience, compliance and client service quality.
➢ Partner with Global and Regional FM eCommerce Heads and Financial Markets Senior Management to develop platform
and SaaS strategy. Work closely with Trading Heads to develop the pricing strategy, and with Sales Heads and specialist
Salespeople to develop the distribution strategy and ensure alignment of the development road map to all needs
➢ Part of Global governance team for FX to ensure compliance with Global strategy and product/region/country needs.
➢ Work with other internal stakeholders including Transaction Banking and Wealth Management teams to ensure delivered
system matched the needs of payments, custody, cash and asset management
➢ Work closely with developers to ensure alignment of technology and business, agree the development approach, validate
functional requirements, test and feedback across multiple release phases of the product. Attend scrums and manage
backlogs and user stories. Good understanding and experience of the software development lifecycle
➢ Manage regional requirement gathering across Middle East, Africa and South Asia working with Sales, Trading, Clients,
Operations, Legal, Compliance and Admin teams to capture and prioritise all needs across multiple asset classes
➢ Partner with key stakeholders in Legal and Compliance to develop robust platform agreements and ensure all local regulatory
and compliance approvals are in place to allow us to deliver the platform to clients in all presence countries. Also ensured
governance for the product across myriad jurisdictional compliance regimes
Operating like a start-up inside a large organisation, my team transformed Standard Chartered's Financial Markets trading
function, digitising pricing, trade capture, analysis, risk management and trade processing, and opened up the banks cross-border and mobile payments capabilities globally.
Responsible for business strategy, design, implementation and product ownership of SCB's Straight2Bank exchange (S2BX)
electronic trading platform, from inception. Electronic FX trades self-originated by clients reached over 80% of all client FX
trades in 2017, from 9% in 2009 (2017 6 million trades, $8 trillion volume, $500 million P/L). Developed associated compliance
systems to manage and report MIFID II Best Execution obligations globally for the bank.
Alongside this global product management role, was responsible for all regional requirements across Africa, MENAP and South
Asia, (29 presence countries) including ensuring system resilience, compliance and client service quality.
➢ Partner with Global and Regional FM eCommerce Heads and Financial Markets Senior Management to develop platform
and SaaS strategy. Work closely with Trading Heads to develop the pricing strategy, and with Sales Heads and specialist
Salespeople to develop the distribution strategy and ensure alignment of the development road map to all needs
➢ Part of Global governance team for FX to ensure compliance with Global strategy and product/region/country needs.
➢ Work with other internal stakeholders including Transaction Banking and Wealth Management teams to ensure delivered
system matched the needs of payments, custody, cash and asset management
➢ Work closely with developers to ensure alignment of technology and business, agree the development approach, validate
functional requirements, test and feedback across multiple release phases of the product. Attend scrums and manage
backlogs and user stories. Good understanding and experience of the software development lifecycle
➢ Manage regional requirement gathering across Middle East, Africa and South Asia working with Sales, Trading, Clients,
Operations, Legal, Compliance and Admin teams to capture and prioritise all needs across multiple asset classes
➢ Partner with key stakeholders in Legal and Compliance to develop robust platform agreements and ensure all local regulatory
and compliance approvals are in place to allow us to deliver the platform to clients in all presence countries. Also ensured
governance for the product across myriad jurisdictional compliance regimes
Service, Asia, LED, UP, MiFID, Processing, Organization, Regulatory, Software, Development, Implementation, Banking, Compliance, Technology, Design, Asset Management, Sales, Test, Management, User stories, Risk Management, Saas, Exchange, Software development, Operations, Product Management, Ecommerce, Business strategy
2006 - 2007
job
Regional Head of Institutional Sales, Middle East
Saxo Bank.
Sales
1992 - 2005
job
Head of FM Sales
National Bank of Kuwait.
Sales
1991 - 1992
job
Head of FX trading
Caisse Nationale de Credit Agricole.
1989 - 1991
job
Head of Spot FX
Republic National Bank of New York.
1983 - 1989
job
FX Trader
Lloyds Bank International.
My education
2018
University of Oxford/Said Business School
N/a, N/a
N/a, N/a
1999
-
2001
Birkbeck College University of London
MSc, ECommerce
MSc, ECommerce
1980
-
1983
University College of Wales
BSc, Accountancy & Computer Science
BSc, Accountancy & Computer Science
1973
-
1980
Dulwich College
A-Levels, Mathematics, French, Economics
A-Levels, Mathematics, French, Economics
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