Barry Polak

As Grid Owner, Barry reports directly to the CEO of ABN AMRO Clearing and he is primarily responsible for the change and run of the key global business applications. Indicators of job role complexity are a direct budget of approximately 40 M€ and approximately 250 FTE’s in the Global Clearing Grid.

Started in 20014 as Global Head of Products within AACB Product Management to set-up a new department.

As Global Head of Products responsible for managing the P&L of the different products and a driving force in shaping the commercial success of global product in the business. Responsible for the day to day management of products relating to Interest Rate Products, Energy, ETFs, Fixed Income, FX and the further development of Prime Services, e.g. Securities Borrowing & Lending.

Appointed to the European Management Team in 2015 and became accountable for the whole of Product Management in 2016. This included Global Network Management, Global Regulatory Affairs, Global Business Development, Global Portfolio Management and Global Services.

End responsible for key projects for ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. and Holland Clearing House (HCH). Successfully managed the HCH team team to become an ESMA approved and EMIR compliant CCP under a very challenging timeline. Next to managing internal stakeholders, also chaired bi-weekly meetings with DNB and AFM. The ESMA approval for HCH proved to be very valuable for the sale of HCH to ICE .

Principal Consultant and Capital Markets domain leader at Capco, specialized in the field of capital markets, (e.g. fixed income, stock markets, CDS, IRS, equity derivatives, ETFs and other structured products) with a strong focus on global regulations Basel 3, Dodd Frank and EMIR. End responsible for many projects and analysis at financial institutions like: Dodd Frank, CDS & Variance Swaps & Swaptions & FRAs, implementation securities availability system (Short Selling Regulation)) and implementing CFDs system.

Competence lead for Algorithmic trading and Market Abuse. Also active member of the MiFID Centre of Excellence. As consultant managed many regulatory projects for ING Commercial banking.

Responsible for business cases, risks and financial aspects like operational lease, asset management and tax issues. In scope were large national and international IT outsourcing deals (>50 million euro’s).

As a trader (’Primary Market Maker’) responsible for maintaining the market in option contracts of listed companies.