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Kwa Chong Seng

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Kwa Chong Seng is an energy and exchange executive who serves as the chairman of the board of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). He took over that role on Sept 22, 2016, succeeding Chew Choon Seng, who retired at that time.{{cite web|url=http://investorrelations.sgx.com/board-directors/kwa-chong-seng|name=Biography|org=SGX|date=May 16, 2019}]
== Background ==
Kwa was elected to the board in September 2012 and was appointed the lead independent director in December 2013. He has been the chairman of both the nominating and governance and the remuneration and staff development committees since September 2013.
He served as chairman and managing director of Exxonmobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. from December 1999 to October 2011. He also served as an Asia Pacific Retail Sales Director at Exxonmobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd from November 2003 to October 2011. Additionally, he served as the president at Esso China Inc. from 1997 to 2011 and its Chairman from 1992 to 2011.
He served as a member of the management board at Energy Studies Institute from 2007 to 2009. 
Seng also served addition executive and board roles at APL Co Pte Ltd, APL Logistics Ltd, APL (Bermuda) Ltd, Automar (Bermuda) Ltd and APL Limited, Olam International Limited, DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and Neptune Orient Lines Limited.
== Education ==
He holds a bachelor of engineering degree in mechanical engineering from National University of Singapore.
== References ==	
Category:Exchange Chairmen
Category:Singapore
Kweku Adoboli

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Kweku Adoboli was a trader with UBS, convicted of the largest rogue trading case in UK history in 2015. He served about half of a seven-year sentence and got out in 2015. He was due to be deported back to his home country of Ghana in 2018.
He was arrested on September 15, 2011, for rogue trading amounting to $2.3 billion in losses. Hired in 2016, he was employed for five years in UBS's equity trading division, reportedly racking up the losses trading un-hedged stock index futures. He was 31 years old at the time of his arrest.
 He worked at UBS's Delta One desk, where traders typically helped clients speculate on, or hedge the performance of, a basket of securities. The group also traded using the bank’s own money.
Adoboli’s actions brought about a review at UBS that led to 10,000 jobs being eliminated and parts of the investment bank that UBS spent more than a decade building being dismantled. 
Adoboli's "rogue trader" charges follow trading scandals at other banks. Jerome Kerviel, arrested in January 2008, lost $6.7 billion at Societe Generale Bank, while doing arbitrage on European index futures. He was sentenced to three years in prison in 2010. Another similar trading scandal involved Nick Leeson who lost $1.3 billion in futures trading at Barings Bank. The losses led to the collapse of the bank. Leeson was sentenced to six years and served three years before his release.
== Background ==
Adoboli is of Ghanian decent and the son of a senior United Nations official who grew up in Isreal, Syria and Iraq before attending the exclusive UK's Ackworth School in West Yorkshire. He has lived in England since he was four and battled authorities against his deportation.
== Education ==
He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2003 with honors and degrees in computer science and management.
== References ==
Category:Rogue Traders
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Kwesi Smith

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Kwesi Smith is Chicago-based non-profit executive and former financial services professional who serves as the CEO of the Greenwood Project. Smith succeeded Greenwood Project co-founder Bevon Joseph in July of 2023 as CEO following Joseph's departure in the fall of 2022.
Before taking over as CEO, Smith served as Greenwood Project's board president. While at William Blair, Smith nominated the Greenwood Project as a community partner as part of the firm's community engagement and philanthropy program.
== Background ==
Before joining the Greenwood Project, Smith was a research analyst with William Blair for almost seven years, covering the large cap consumer sector. He had also covered global midcap healthcare earlier for William Blair. His research contributed to a long-only $43 billion global growth equity fund. 
Smith has also worked for TimesSquare Capital Management in New York as a vice president of healthcare equity research, contributing to a $20 billion long-only growth equity fund. He had also been a associate in equity research on a $4.5 billion fund focused on U.S. growth equity. 
He started his career as an analyst for MetLife Investments.
== Education ==
Smith holds a Bachelor of Science degree with concentrations in finance and IT from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.
== References ==	
Category:MetLife Investments - Former Emloyees
Category:TimesSquare Capital Management - Former Employees
Category:William Blair - Former Employees
Kyle Brandon

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Kyle Brandon is managing director, head of derivatives policy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). She leads SIFMA's dealer-focused workstreams covering ongoing and emerging policy developments and regulatory advocacy, including on Title VII rulemaking, implementation and compliance issues, as well as addressing Swap Dealer/SBS Dealer business practice issues.
Brandon currently serves as a member of the board of Women in Financial Markets, formerly Women in Derivatives.
== Background ==
Before joining SIFMA’s predecessor organization, SIA, in 2004, Brandon was chief financial officer, chief operating officer and co-founder of Orion Capital Advisors, Ltd in Moscow, where she co-managed a $200 million portfolio of Russian investment-oriented hedge funds. Before spending a number of years in macro and emerging markets at U.S.-based hedge funds, she worked on the dealer side in fixed income and derivatives.
== Education ==
She holds a BA in Japan studies from Cornell University and an MA in international economics from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. 
== References ==	
Category:Women in Financial Markets Board
Category:Orion Capital Advisors - Former Employees
Kyle P. Baltz

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Kyle P. Balz is a rice producer and president of Baltz Feed company in Pocahontas, Arkansas. He serves as secretary-treasurer of the Arkansas Rice Council Board and is a member of the USA Rice Council Board. He also serves on several USA Rice Federation committees and subcommittees, including the Domestic Promotion Committee, the EU Trade Policy Subcommittee and the International Trade Policy Committee.
Baltz also serves on the CFTC's Subcommittee on Convergence in Agricultural Commodity Markets. 
== Background ==
== Education ==
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:CFTC Subcommittee on Convergence Member
Kyle Zasky

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In June 2022, Kyle Zasky became chief executive officer of LayerOne Financial, an investment management software company whose flagship platform, "Portfolio One" provides portfolio and order management, risk and analytics, operations, compliance, treasury management and reporting for sophisticated hedge fund clients. 
== Background ==
Before LayerOne, Zasky spent nine plus years as a partner and head of investment banking with SenaHill Partners LP, an investment, operations and advisory services company founded in 2013. In 1995, he cofounded EdgeTrade, an electronic trading firm, which was sold to Knight Capital in 2008.
Zasky serves on several boards of directors, most recently with Tradelegs LLC, a developer of an artificial intelligence financial technology intended to create custom options strategies, and with Untapt, a financial services staffing service. 
On Monday, November 14, 2022, he will serve as a judge for the Innovators Pitches Session at the 2022 FIA Futures and Options Expo in Chicago.
== Education ==
Zasky earned a Bachelor of Science from NYU's Stern School of Business.
== Registration Information ==
Series 7, 63, 79
== References ==
Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol was adopted at the third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Kyoto, Japan on Dec. 11, 1997. The Protocol is an international and legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gases emissions worldwide. It became the legally binding Kyoto Treaty on Feb. 16, 2005.
Developed countries were required to reduce their GHG emissions below levels specified for each of them. These targets must be met within a five-year time frame between 2008 and 2012, and add up to a total cut in GHG emissions of at least 5% against the baseline of 1990. Review and enforcement of these commitments are carried out by United Nations-based bodies. 
A heavier burden is placed upon developed nations under the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities.” There are two main reasons for this. First, those countries can more easily pay the cost of cutting emissions. Second, developed countries have historically contributed more to the problem by emitting larger amounts of GHGs per person than in developing countries.
==Mission==
The aim of the convention is to stabilise atmospheric levels of greenhouse gas concentration in order to prevent man-made interference with the climate, and the signatory nations to the Convention commit themselves to report national greenhouse gas inventories every year, and to review the progress on their regional greenhouse gas abatement programmes. Other commitments are technological assistance to developing countries that are especially vulnerable to climate change and participation in the meetings of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention.
The 41 industrialised countries listed in the Annex I of the Convention are recommended to take emissions reductions domestically, while developing countries are exempted from immediate emission reduction measures, though may participate on a voluntary basis. All parties to the treaty agreed to mitigate climate change by, for example, promoting climate-friendly technologies. 
== References ==
Category:Industry Economic Organizations
Category: Environmental Markets
Category:Weather
Kyung-soo Choi

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Kyung-soo Choi is chairman and chief executive officer of the Korea Exchange. He was appointed to that position in 2013, filling the vancancy left when Bong-soo Kim resigned in June. 
== Background ==
He was previously head of Hyundai Securities from 2008 to 2012. Earlier in his career he worked in government service, holding senior positions in the finance ministry and regional tax offices.
== Education ==
== References ==
L. Brooks Entwistle

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L. Brooks Entwistle is the Singapore-basec chief business officer of Uber International.
Previously, he was the CEO of the Everstone Group, a private equity and venture capital firm. He is also a board member of the Aspen Institute and The Asia Foundation.
Formerly, he was the head of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Asian operations.
Entwistle is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council On International Policy and The Explorers Club. He serves on the board of The Aspen Institute India, The Aspen Institute Board of Trustees and Young Life. Brooks is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a member of the Bombay Chapter of The Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
 
== Background ==
He was previously the managing director and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs (India) Securities Private Limited, responsible for all the firm's businesses in India. 
Other previous responsibilities at Goldman Sachs included co-founding the Asia High Technology Group, serving as chief operating officer for Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, and as a managing director in the Financial Sponsors Group. 
Brooks worked as a summer associate at McKinsey & Co. during the summer of 1994. He also served as an election monitor with The Carter Center in Liberia in 1997 and Mozambique in 1999. 
== Education ==
He earned an A.B. in History from Dartmouth College in 1989 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995.
== References ==	
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:Goldman Sachs - Former Employees
LBank

== Background ==
LBank was one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world according to data published by CoinMarketCap. It also accepts U.S. dollar and Chinese yuan for transactions. In the 24 hours prior 21.00 UCT on June 7, 2018, LBank ranked Number 5 by CoinMarketCap in dollar value of transactions. Offering 120 trading pairs LBank was ranked 84th among cryptocurrency trading platforms according to CryptoCompare on July 13, 2021.
=== References ===
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Crypto Exchanges
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
LCH.Clearnet LLC

LCH.Clearnet LLC is the U.S. subsidiary of London-based derivatives clearing organization LCH.Clearnet Ltd. LCH.Clearnet LLC was created in August 2012, after the acquisition of International Derivatives Clearing Group, the interest-rate derivatives clearinghouse majority owned by the Nasdaq OMX Group.
== History ==
In April 2012, it was announced that LCH.Clearnet had agreed to buy International Derivatives Clearing Group, the interest-rate derivatives clearinghouse majority owned by the Nasdaq OMX Group. The acquisition was completed on August 15, 2012, with LCH paying EUR 19.00 per share of IDCG. Also as part of the deal, Nasdaq OMX received a 3.7 percent stake in LCH.Clearnet.
After the IDCG acquisition, the U.S. derivatives clearing organization (DCO) was renamed LCH.Clearnet LLC. On January 23, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved LCH's revised rulebook and amended registration as a DCO, wihich permits it to clear futures contracts, options on futures contracts, commodity options, and swaps where interest rates and/or currencies in the U.S.
== Key People ==
*David Weisbrod, CEO
== References ==
Category:Clearing Houses
LCH.Clearnet Limited

LCH.Clearnet Limited is a risk management arm of LCH.Clearnet Group. The firm's clearing house aims to provide clearing members with a central counterparty and safeguard the interests of the company's shareholders and contributors to its clearing funds.
LCH.Clearnet SA and LCH.Clearnet Ltd. are distinct legal entities of LCH.Clearnet Group. They each have their own rulebooks and processes.
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== References ==
Category:Clearing Houses
LCH.Clearnet SA

LCH.Clearnet SA is a risk management arm of LCH.Clearnet Group. The firm's clearing house aims to provide clearing members with a central counterparty and safeguard the interests of the company's shareholders and contributors to its clearing funds.
LCH.Clearnet SA and LCH.Clearnet Ltd. are distinct legal entities of LCH.Clearnet Group. They each have their own rulebooks and processes. 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== References ==
Category:Clearing Houses
LCH SwapClear

LCH SwapClear is the clearing arm of LCH (formerly LCH.Clearnet). It was launched in September 1999 to provide clearing for plain vanilla interest rate swaps of up to 10 years maturity in USD, EUR, JPY and GBP. Its range of products has since been expanded to include a full range of major currencies and indices. 
SwapClear was the world’s first OTC clearing service. It is currently the largest swaps clearing book and clears about 50 percent of the global interbank market. It successfully managed Lehman’s $9 trillion interest rate swap portfolio in September 2008. In 2011, the outstanding notional value of interest rate swap trade sides within SwapClear increased to $295 trillion. Wells Fargo announced its intention to join SwapClear on June 9, 2011, bringing the total number of clearing members within SwapClear to 54.
On March 8, 2011, LCH launched SwapClear FCM Service, a platform for the clearing of OTC swaps. The platform was created in anticipation of new Dodd-Frank-related regulations, which stipulate that swaps "eligible for clearing" be cleared via a swap execution facility. On July 27, 2011, asset management giant BlackRock announced that it had cleared its first two interest rate swap contracts on SwapClear.
SwapClear provides multilateral netting and uses daily margining.
On March 4, 2015, LCH announced that SwapClear would be launching new interest rate portfolio margining capabilities for LCH.Clearnet members and their clients around the world. Market participants using SwapClear and LCH.Clearnet's listed rates service will be able to maximize their margin offsets between OTC and listed interest rate derivatives. The initiative is expected to go-live within 12 months.
On May 20, 2023 LCH SwapClear completed its final conversion from Libor to SOFR, bringing about the end of USD LIBOR in the cleared OTC swaps market. The completion followed LCH SwapClear’s first USD LIBOR conversion on April 22, 2023. 
== Products and Services ==
From the LCH.Clearnet website--
14 Currencies eligible for clearing through SwapClear:USD, EUR, JPY, GBP, CHF, AUD, DKK, CAD, HKD, NOK, NZD, SEK, PLN and ZAR.		
*Both Libor and Fed Funds Indices
*USD, EUR and GBP IRS out to 50 years
*AUD, CAD, CHF, SEK and JPY Vanilla IRS out to 30 years
*HKD, NOK, DKK, NZD, PLN and ZAR IRS out to 10 years
*USD, EUR, GBP, CHF Overnight Index Swaps (OIS)
*Compounding Swaps
*T+0 Clearing
*Trade Compression for Inter-dealer trades
*Trade Backloading – Legacy IRS portfolios can be cleared
== Key People ==
*Daniel Maguire, CEO of LCH Clearnet
*Susi de Verdelon, Global Head of SwapClear
== References ==
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
LGO Markets

UPDATE: LGO Markets was acquired by Canadian cryptocurrency broker Voyager in the fourth quarter of 2020. LGO no longer conducts business in its own name as of March 30, 2021.
LGO Markets is a fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchange that provides non-custodial trading modeled on current stock market industrial organization. LGO Markets requires its members to have U.S. dollar accounts at a specified bank for fiat transactions. Members also must have a multi-signature cryptocurrency wallet that requires at least one signature from the customer and one signature from the customer's clearing firm in order to transfer cryptocurrency. LGO Markets relies on Altcoinomy, a Switzerland-registered financial services firm, to make the transfers between buyers and sellers. 
LGO Markets, a part of the LGO Group, announced on March 4, 2019, that it had launched its cryptocurrency exchange. Trading begins on March 11; until then, the market's website will be available only for customers to establish their accounts. 
 
LGO Markets was funded by a February 2018 token sale conducted by LGO's French branch under French law without U.S. investors. The sale raised 3,600 bitcoin, which was valued at roughly $32.5 million at the time of the sale. According to CoinMarketCap, an online industry data reporting service, at the beginning of March 2019 the LGO token (LGO) was the 275th largest token by market capitalization. Eventually, the token will be usable to pay fees for services on LGO Markets. 
Anticipating an opening to retail traders later in 2019, LGO Markets focused on the institutional segment of the market place at first. Hugo Renaudin, CEO of LGO Markets, told CoinDesk that the company estimated there were approximately 400 entities trading cryptocurrencies in early 2019: "We estimated this by talking to the crypto-friendly banks. Among these 400, it’s mostly hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, OTC brokers, a few family offices, asset managers and purely crypto players like lending providers that consider trading bitcoin as a part of their business.” 
== References ==
Category:Crytpocurrency
Category:Spot Market
Category:France
Category:Bitcoin
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
LIFFE CONNECT

LIFFE CONNECT is NYSE Liffe's electronic trading platform that supports electronic transactions of all Liffe products and other exchanges that have licensed its technology. Today it serves as the electronic matching engine for all of NYSE Euronext's derivatives trading for markets in London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon, incorporated under the Euronext banner.
==History==
LIFFE CONNECT was developed by the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (Liffe) to replace its open outcry trading floor in 1998. Since then it was selected by Liffe for its five pan-European derivatives markets and also is used by the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT), Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX), Winnipeg Commodity Exchange (WCE) and Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange (TIFFE). The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) also used LIFFE CONNECT, but in 2008 as part of its July 2007 merger with CME, moves to the CME Globex electronic trading platform. 
==Access to LIFFE CONNECT ==
Liffe requires shareholders who seeking trading membership to use conformant software and demonstrate a basic level of technical and operational readiness before entering the LIFFE CONNECT™ market. They must: 
*install conformant trading application software 
*pass a market entry test to demonstrate they have a suitable technical environment and adequate operational procedures 
 
LIFFE CONNECT not only allows market participants to submit orders in individual contract months – “outrights” – but also as complete strategies and to have those strategies quoted on screen. This functionality makes the trading of strategies, such as Packs and Bundles, easier for market participants as they can trade these strategies as one transaction without legging risk (the risk that one leg of the strategy might not be filled).
== References ==
Category:Electronic Match Engines
Category:NYSE Euronext
LIT America

LIT America was a Chicago-based brokerage firm created by the acquisition of several Chicago firms by LIT Holdings P.L.C. of London. It was a fast-growing firm in the 1980s and a major player in the consolidation of smaller brokerage firms. At one time, LIT America was the largest clearing broker in the futures industry.
LIT America itself was later acquired by Spear Leads Kellogg in 1993 and made a division of First Options of Chicago.
==History==
LIT American Inc. merged with the Goldberg Organization, the Shatkin Trading Company and Rialcor-Shatkin Securities Inc. in June of 1989. In July of 1989 it acquired G. H. Miller & Company, and in September it bought the Shatkin Investment Corporation.
In 1989, David J. Vogel was named chairman and CEO and John J. Ruth was named president and COO. Vogel been an executive vice president for capital markets at Thomson McKinnon Securities Inc. of New York.
In 1989 it also acquired Barnes & Co. for an undisclosed amount. Barnes was the sixth major acquisition by LIT Holdings PLC since 1982. Barnes was formed in 1986 by Rick Barnes, a Chicago futures trader who purchased the former Hennessy & Associates.
In 1990, Henry Shatkin and Patrick Arbor were dismissed from the company in a cost cutting move. Arbor and Shatkin would late form a firm Shatkin Arbor Karlov, later just Shatkin Arbor.
One of the FBI agents involved in a sting operation in the late 1980s at the Chicago Board of Trade, using the name Michael McLoughlin, cleared his trades through LIT.
==Key People==
*Patrick Arbor 
*Peggy Brandt
*Robert Goldberg
*Henry Shatkin
*Vickie L. Lambert
*Tom Madden
*Joni Malpede
*Michael A. Manning
*Ryan McNally
*Jeff Quinto
*Robin Ross
*John J. Ruth
*Christopher Smith
*Donna Stroder
*Frederick G. Uhlmann
*David J. Vogel
*Wallace Weisenborn
== References ==
Category:Brokerage Firms
Category:LIT America