ASIC Rewrite Essentials: Key Changes & EMIR Refit Lessons

Alex Orgaz-Barnier

Senior Manager, Market Infrastructure

ASIC

Alex is a Senior Manager in the Market Infrastructure team at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). He leads the unit responsible for of overseeing the Australian futures markets and OTC trading and reporting infrastructure, including licensing and supervising Trade Repositories and administering the Australian Derivatives Transaction Reporting Rules.

Rachael Hutchins

Product Manager, Regulatory Reporting

Bloomberg L.P.

Rachael Hutchins joined Bloomberg in 2016 after working in sell-side compliance for almost 20 years.

Rachael is Product Manager for Bloomberg’s regulatory reporting products in RHUB. In 2017, Bloomberg created RHUB, a global, multi-asset class regulatory reporting suite that addresses MiFID II trade and transaction reporting via a single reporting platform. Having started her compliance career at the Australian Stock Exchange, Rachael has since performed a variety of compliance and operational risk roles both in Australia and the United Kingdom, across retail and wholesale sell-side firms. Rachael has previously held Chief Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer roles in the United Kingdom.

Rachael received a Master of Law from the University of Melbourne in 2010.

Onkar Jotkar

Multi-Asset Risk & Valuations Sales

Bloomberg

Onkar Jotkar leads Bloomberg’s Multi-Asset Risk & OTC Valuations business for ANZ, ASEAN and India. In this role, Onkar works with corporations, asset managers and asset owners on their derivatives pricing and risk workflows. He is based in Singapore but works with risk managers, treasurers, portfolio managers and traders across Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Onkar managed FactSet’s Portfolio, Quant and Risk Analytics team in ASEAN and India.

Jeroen Rodenberg

Electronic Trading & Post-Trade Compliance Solutions

Bloomberg

Jeroen Rodenberg started his early career as trader and portfolio manager at Robeco. He continued into institutional equity & algo sales positions at Fortis and Instinet. Jeroen has been working for Bloomberg for 12 years. After several years in London, Jeroen moved to Australia 7 years ago as TCA product specialist. Currently, Jeroen is responsible for Bloomberg’s Electronic Trading and Post-Trade Compliance solutions in Australia and New Zealand.

Michael Soviner

Enterprise Data Solutions, Australia & New Zealand

Bloomberg

Michael Soviner consults the buyside and regional clients in Australia and New Zealand on Bloomberg Enterprise Data and Technology solutions. Michael has spent 19 years with Bloomberg in various roles and capacity from research analyst in Bloomberg Intelligence to managing Australia/New Zealand and Southeast Asia’s Equity and ESG data products.

Ben Pool

Head of Sales, Australia & New Zealand

Bloomberg

Ben Pool is the Head of Sales for Australia and New Zealand at Bloomberg. Ben oversees and guides the firm’s Australia and New Zealand strategy and works with clients as they manage the challenges of an evolving market landscape, using Bloomberg’s market-leading technology and data. Ben has more than years of experience in supporting both the buy and sell-side clients in optimizing their operational efficiency and facilitated clients with their firm-wide data transformation journey. Throughout his career at Bloomberg, Ben has taken various leadership roles, most recently as Head of Hong Kong and China Buyside Sales teams. Prior roles include the Head of Buyside Enterprise Relationship Management team, Head of Hong Kong Asset Managers and Insurers, and Head of Hong Kong Banks and Brokers following his move from London to Hong Kong in 2014. Ben started his career at Bloomberg’s London office covering various Analytics and Sales roles in the City and Europe covering a variety of clients including Asset Managers, Hedge Funds and Pension Funds. Ben is an active member of the Bloomberg B-ABLE, a male ally for the Bloomberg Women’s Committee and a member of the Bloomberg Australia Office Committee. Ben holds a bachelor’s degree in Financial and Business Economics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is a keen runner and footballer.