Chief Executive Officer, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
Scott O’Malia is Chief Executive Officer of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), a position he has held since August 2014. At ISDA, Scott has led the Association’s drive to promote safe and efficient markets and develop industry standards and legal documentation. This includes a push to develop common standards to enable greater technology applications, bringing greater innovation through scalable fintech and regtech solutions.
ISDA is a global derivatives association that represents all derivatives users on key industry issues, including trading, clearing, reporting, margin, capital and legal standards. During Scott’s tenure, Scott has brought greater focus on market infrastructure issues – in particular, the cross-border harmonization of global central counterparty regulation, trade execution and data rules.
Prior to joining ISDA, Scott served as Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). While at the CFTC, between October 2009 and August 2014, Scott revived the Technology Advisory Committee, and led an active agenda investigating data standardization, highlighting trade execution rules and developing a better understanding of how algorithmic trading operates in regulated markets.
Summit Stage, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
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Asset tokenization and shared ledger technology are demonstrating the potential to enhance liquidity and improve efficiencies in financial markets globally. This is no longer conceptual, with increased real world deployment of these technologies. Despite good progress made, the absence of globally accepted taxonomy and standards in relation to digital assets increase the cost of adoption as financial institutions would need to invest and support different types of technologies. This panel discusses development of frameworks for asset tokenization and efforts to harmonise market standards to accelerate industry adoption.
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Hall 3, Singapore EXPO
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This Project Guardian session showcases the commercial case studies within the foreign exchange (FX) market. Explore the various treasury and cash management developments looking to redefining how the industry manages cash and digital money.
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