Phil Simons

Executive Director - Global Head of Sales & Marketing Clients & Markets
Eurex Clearing AG

Philip Simons has 30 years experience in the financial industry where he started life as a swaps trader before moving in to the clearing world, initially heading up the clearing business at UBS followed by Cargill. Philip later moved into the custody and collateral management space at J.P.Morgan before recently joining Eurex Clearing where is head of OTC Development

Philip is head of the Clearing Sales and Relationship Management Section within the Clients and Markets Department responsible for building strong relationships with our clients and attracting new clearing and buy side members and new clearing flow across all cleared asset classes.

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Day 2

Friday, March 11th, 2016

11:15 OXFORD-STYLE DEBATE : Will Central Clearing and CCP Margining Act As a Sufficient Buffer to Absorb Potential Credit Losses?

Chair: Kevin Milne, Director, Due Diligence Reports Ltd, Former Director of Post Trade, London Stock Exchange

• Will a monopolistic CCP landscape increase systemic risk and asset liability?
• Will regulatory constraints effectively safeguard the industry from emerging vulnerabilities?
• Will central clearing offer cost- benefits to the industry?
• Will central clearing and CCP margining fully mitigate operational and legal risks?

14:00 CASE STUDY REVOLUTION : Moving Towards Collateral Management Best Practice to Navigate the Operational Complexity of a Bifurcated Market Model

• Brainstorming best practice approaches to address collateral scarcity to meet collateral requirements
• Implementing and developing sophisticated collateral optimising tools to ensure sufficient collateral use
• Improving eligible collateral inventory management tracking
• Evaluating the impact of possible increased automation on collateral management to design an optimal system