Chris Ferreri

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Chris Ferreri is an American financial industry executive with extensive experience in electronic brokerage and market structure. He is known for his expertise in breaking down complex issues and developing innovative solutions in the financial markets.
Ferreri currently serves as the chief operating officer (COO) at Hartfield, Titus, and Donnelly, LLC, a financial services firm. Prior to this role, he was a prominent figure at ICAP, where he held the position of head of e-commerce. Throughout his career, Ferreri has been recognized as an electronic brokerage pioneer, with over 30 years of experience in the field
He was the founder of Eight Point Strategies.
He is a former managing director at ICAP North America, where he oversaw ICAP ETC, the company's hybrid brokered OTC solution. He was the first chairman of the Wholesale Markets Brokers' Association Americas Inc. (WMBA Americas), and served again as chairman in 2012.
In November 2014 the Wall Street Journal reported that he planned to leave ICAP. 
== Background ==
Ferreri joined ICAP in January 1984. He has served as managing director at ICAP, ICAP Services North America, and the Electronic Trading Community Division. From 2003 to 2005, he was the managing director of ICAP Electronic Broking. Ferreri has also worked for DuPont as a project engineer and for Garbanzo Game Studios as the US Treasury yield curve swap desk manager.
Ferreri is also co-founder of the industry conference Sefcon.
==MarketsWiki Education, New York 2015==
"I want you to think differently, all the time, when thinking about things, and look for parallels, because parallels help you understand things. We often speak in stories because people understand stories."
Chris Ferreri, former head of e-commerce for ICAP and founder of Eight Point Strategies, is a master at taking complicated issues and breaking them down into pieces that can be readily understood. When at ICAP, Ferreri was tasked with explaining market structure to legislators and regulators as they crafted the rules related to the Dodd-Frank Act. In this MarketsWiki Education presentation, he explains the different modes of execution in fixed income markets in terms we can all understand - Zillow, Craigslist, Kelley Blue Book, and the used car salesman down the street.
==John Lothian News Interviews==
SEFCON IV Snapshot, September 2013
SEFCON IV Snapshot
The Wholesale Markets Brokers’ Association Americas (WMBAA) is an industry advocacy group made up of five inter-dealer brokerage firms (IDBs): BGC Partners, GFI Group, ICAP, Tradition and Tullett Prebon. Since 2010, the WMBAA has hosted its annual SEFCON conference in New York on issues surrounding swap execution facilities (SEFs), a new type of financial transaction execution entity created by the Dodd-Frank Act. SEFCON IV, to be held November 18, 2013, will feature a status update on SEFs from regulators, legislators, dealers, traders and other market participants. Conference Chairman Chris Ferreri offers a glimpse as to what attendees can expect in this video with former John Lothian News Editor-at-Large Doug Ashburn.
 
An Intro to IDBs and SEF Regulation from ICAP’s Chris Ferreri, October 2012
Chris Ferreri is a managing director at ICAP North America, where he oversees ICAP ETC, the company’s hybrid brokered OTC solution. He was the first chairman of the Wholesale Markets Brokers’ Association Americas Inc. (WMBA Americas), and served again as chairman in 2012. Ferreri spoke with John Lothian News Editor-at-Large Doug Ashburn at 2012 SEFCON III about the history of the interdealer broker (IDB) market, swap execution facilities (SEFs), and current issues surrounding SEF regulation related to the Dodd-Frank Act. Ferreri expresses concern that as OTC derivatives are subject to mandatory clearing, financial risk could become concentrated at the clearing level. Ferreri also discusses the need for voice broking services alongside electronic order books.
== Education ==
Ferreri has a Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.
== References ==	
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