Basu Choudhury

With over twenty years' experience in business, technology, regulation and financial markets infrastructure, Basu leads the partnerships and Alliances initiatives across the three OSTTRA business pillars: FX & Secutiries, Rates & Credit and Optimization. Basu’s main focus is on driving initiatives in order to deliver the firms organic and inorganic strategic growth targets. Basu brings a wealth of FX knowledge and experience as the former Head of Product for LCH ForexClear service, where he lead the design of the service for FX NDF clearing and was at the forefront of the definition of a model for CCPs to interact with CLS to enable the clearing of FX deliverable products (FX Options/Spot/Forwards). Before joining LCH Basu was at Standard Bank, where he was a business/technical architect focused on business process reengineering for the local markets’ desks across its global FX emerging markets footprint. Prior to his time at Standard Bank, he spent over 10 years building, designing and supporting banking and hedge fund business initiatives across FX, Equity Derivatives, Rates and Credit business lines. Basu received his Masters in Economics, specializing in econometrics and options theory, from the University of Toronto in 1997.