Manavinder Bains

Background

About Manavinder Bains

Focused on financial services transformation, market structure, prudential, payments and markets regulation, risk, controls and operations. Adept at anticipating and mitigating enterprise-wide risk. Currently serve as Director at Citi, leading a wide range of global first line risk and control functions, including prudential and payments regulation, Swap Dealer, Broker Dealer and FCM oversight, governance and supervision. Manage a wide range of regulatory, business and operational issues impacting banking, services and capital markets businesses. Prior to this role, served as Chief Compliance Officer of BNY Mellon's Swap Dealer. Before that, served as General Counsel and Chief Regulatory Officer of NFA registered Introducing Broker PeerIQ (Cross River Bank), advising the company and implementing regulatory compliance programs in connection with the development of derivative instruments and securitization strategy. Prior to that, served as Counsel and Chief Regulatory Officer to two CFTC registered Designated Contracts Markets (ELX Markets and Cantor Futures Exchange) focusing on foreign currency, precious metals and credit derivatives regulation while simultaneously serving as CCO of Cantor Clearinghouse (a CFTC registered Derivatives Clearing Organization). Also served as Chief Counsel with ICE/NYSE managing a wide range of legal and regulatory issues impacting the listing, trading, execution, clearing and settlement of equities, futures, derivatives, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products globally. Prior to that role, managed a wide range of transactional and regulatory issues with Merrill Lynch. Also served as Corporate Counsel to a trading technology firm and as an associate at a prominent law firm. Appeared on CNBC’s "On the Money". Often present at Continuing Legal Education seminars. Authored widely cited articles on the convergence of markets, law and technology published in the COLUMBIA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW and the STANFORD TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW. Cited in a judicial opinion issued by the 9th Circuit and an amicus curiae brief filed in a patent infringement case in US Supreme Court, as well as numerous references in legal scholarship.