Mark is a Regulatory Change Manager in HSBC’s Global Banking and Markets division, responsible for implementing regulatory change affecting the investment bank in Europe. Mark’s experience includes implementing the central aspects of OTC derivatives reform under the Dodd Frank Act and EMIR as well as bank and market structure reform under the ‘Volcker’ rule and, latterly, MiFID II/MAR.

Mark has led regulatory engagement and lobbying work on EMIR and MiFID II/MAR, both at a domestic and European level, and is currently the deputy-chair of the BBA’s EMIR Working Group.

Tim is a financial services technology executive with more than 20 years domestic and international experience in the securities industry. He joined Thomson Reuters in 2010 as the Global Head of Strategy for Enterprise Content. He is responsible for driving continued growth in the firm’s content business related to reference data, risk, and regulatory solutions. Tim focuses on leveraging internal and external partnerships to provide business priorities and guidance for executive decisions. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Tim was Managing Director at Omgeo where he led global strategy and marketing for the firm. Other positions include Senior Vice President, product management and strategy at GoldenSource Corporation, Director of Securities and Investments at TowerGroup and product management and strategy roles at SWIFT, Brown Brothers Harriman and Dean Witter Reynolds.

Alexander Dorfmann is responsible for Risk and Regulation and currently working on projects focusing on Investor Protection and Sanctions Monitoring. Over the last 20 years, Alexander has worked for financial institutions, consulting firms and vendors, including Erste Bank, Raiffeisen, Thomson Reuters and SAS. His risk and technology experience covers a broad range of risk and compliance challenges such as Dodd-Frank, credit, market and liquidity risk or regulatory tasks focusing on governance and compliance. His recent experience is related to establishing a MiFID II solution as well as looking at the new regulatory requirements globally.