SEO London Third Tuesdays: The Shifting Regulatory and Legal Technology Landscape

Deborah joined Bloomberg in 2016 to coordinate the launch of its Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), followed by managing the MiFID II programme for the market-leading Electronic Trading platform and then the build out of its Dutch MTF as part of Brexit readiness. She holds a BA from University College London and an MSc with Distinction from Queen Mary University of London.

Richard brings over 15 years experience in the software engineering space, and is currently working at Deutsche Bank. He has worked at leading investment banks and consultancies including Credit Suisse, UBS and GFT group, on technology solutions for different parts of the business. Richard studied his undergraduate degree in the Caribbean, at the University of West Indies, and then completed his masters in computer science at University of Illinois.

He has seen the good, bad, and the ugly, from change documentation that takes two days to prepare, to editing live trade messages by hand (don’t ask).  He has learned that the next big thing is sometimes repackaging basic techniques that are decades old and that most technology projects in business are primarily about people, teams, and communication, not just about the tech.

Majoring in Economics and further Econometrics studies, Sisieta’s 13yr long career spans across the spectrum of delivering business commercial objectives, to mitigating firms regulatory risk exposures. Beginning at HSBC Investment & Wealth Management analysing and advising on investment portfolios across the HNW client population for seven years, Sisieta  transitioned into Regulatory & Compliance Risk at Brewin Dolphin Asset Management, providing regulatory risk assurance on the investment management business and monitoring of the managed portfolios whilst also being a regional lead for a national regulatory change management project on portfolio Suitability.  Sisieta joined Bloomberg LP in 2016 where she developed and managed the EMEA Compliance Monitoring Programme across the EMEA regulated entities. She now leads a regional team in delivering the EMEA Compliance Monitoring Programme whilst currently extending the programme globally into U.S and APAC as part of a broader global initiative.

Sisieta Chair’s the Bloomberg Black Professional Community and an EMEA representative on the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion council.  She also sits as an ambassador on “The Diversity Project”, a charity organisation aimed at delivering diversity within the financial services industry for both clients & employees.

Ruchit Patel is an antitrust partner in the firm’s London office. Ruchit advises some of the largest companies in the world on matters before the European Commission, UK Competition and Markets Authority, UK sectoral regulators, UK High Court. He also has litigation experience before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Ruchit also has significant experience advising clients on antitrust law matters in Asia. His clients include technology, financial services, private equity, and healthcare companies, among others.

Ruchit has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal: Competition for two consecutive years as “a very experienced competition lawyer” who “focuses on strategy and results” and “is uniquely dedicated to ensuring his clients’ success.” Legal 500 also noted that Ruchit brings “an in-depth knowledge of Indian competition law.”

Ruchit is a visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London.

Darya joined Bloomberg in 2010 and has been leading a regional team of Legal Negotiators within EMEA Legal for the past 6 years. Darya’s team oversees client facing contractual negotiations across all Bloomberg products as well as strategic enhancements of Bloomberg contract management systems which provide efficient reporting solutions, with a special focus on integrating AI for contractual analysis. Darya is a graduate from Oxford University and holds a law degree from the University of Law.