Montis Announces Advisory Council to Accelerate Digital CSD

Written by Montis Group | Jan 15, 2024 8:07:32 AM

London and Luxembourg, 15 January 2024 – Montis Group today announced the Founding Members of its Advisory Council, in response to the rapid pace of digital transformation across global financial markets. The Advisory Council will help steer Montis on its journey as it launches its revolutionary digital Central Securities Depositary (CSD) service later this year, which provides the market infrastructure that is needed for regulated tokenised assets, in the form of digital securities, to achieve their full potential.

The Advisory Council comprises industry leaders and opinion formers who are perfectly placed to provide strategic advice, guidance, and expertise to the Montis leadership and management, as well as exchange views on legal, technical (DLT), tokenisation and related infrastructure matters.

The Founding Members of the Montis Group Advisory Council bring a wealth of experience from across the industry, including exchanges, investment banking, post-trade, legal, consulting, regulators, blockchain and industry bodies:

Member	Experience
Professor Monica Singer	First CEO of South Africa's CSD (STRATE) Vice Chair of GLEIF & Consensys senior strategist
Marco Strimer	Chair of LME Clear & CEO of SIX x-clear SIX Group, Securities Services Division, Executive Board
Kathleen Tyson	Former central banker and markets supervisor Serial global infrastructure innovator, i.e. Triparty Repo
Andrew Simpson	Former regulator & Head of Post Trade at Euronext Group Strategy and M&A advisor for BME
Lawrence Wintermeyer	Chair of Global Digital Finance & CEO of Innovate Finance UK OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board
Dr. Pinar Emirdag	Global Head of Digital Services/Product at JP Morgan and State Street Hyperledger and R3 Advisory Boards
Lodewijk van Setten	Director and General Counsel at Trilitech (core protocol and layer 2) Senior Counsel, Finance Institutions, Funds, and DLT at Walkers
Dr. David Doyle	EU regulatory policy expert Cross-EU parliamentary body, The Kangaroo Group Board Member
Mark Berman	Member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar & the New York State Bar (ret.) Former lawyer with the Division of Market Regulation of the SEC
Olaf Ransome	The Bankers' Plumber specialising on liquidity CSD Function Head at SDX & Industry Solutions Advisor at Fnality
Shareen Qureshi	Senior partner for Astel Ventures Spearheaded wins for the first FinTech accelerator at Rise London
Alan Philpot	Chief Product Officer DLT Solutions at Delta Capita DLS Head of Market Infrastructure and Custody Solutions at SETL
Terry Gibson	DEX Executive Lead in UAE & Asia Pacific CSD Association Lead Head of Post Trade solutions at LSEG & SVP, Head of Product at SGX
Martin Bartlam	Global Head of Fintech and Blockchain Practice at DLA Piper Advisory Counsel Chair at GDF & FCA Digital Sandbox Mentor
David Gest	Investor CSD solutions architect for Clearstream Former Head of Product at Montis
Padmini Krishnan	Co-founder at CUVC and crypto/blockchain specialist CSDR and MiFID II Regulations Compliance at Montis and Goldman Sachs

Martin Watkins, CEO at Montis Group , comments:

“With our regulation in Luxembourg expected to be received in the first half of this year and the technology build in final testing, we are preparing to launch our digital CSD. Consequently, now is the right time to put in place our Advisory Council to help steer the business over the next phase of evolution as we go live and start to establish our place in the post-trade ecosystem. Montis’s revolutionary blockchain-agnostic solution will be at the heart of the new digitally-native financial markets infrastructure (“dFMI”), and the experience of these council members, working closely with myself, our chairman, David Lester, and our leadership team will mean we can leverage our innovation and firmly establish ourselves in the space.”

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