• Insight
  • Thursday 24th October 2024

REGnosys names Lionel Smith⁠-⁠Gordon as Head of Client Services

We are delighted to welcome Lionel Smith-Gordon as our new Head of Client Services at REGnosys. 

 

With a distinguished career spanning over 40 years, including senior roles at JPMorgan and IBM, Lionel brings a wealth of experience in financial services technology and operations.  


Lionel has hit the ground running as we scale up our dedicated Client Services function to meet growing demand. As more buy and sell-side firms grapple with evolving regulatory requirements, we see demand for assistance in deploying ISDA’s DRR (Digital Regulatory Reporting) increase, and we offer best-in-class professional services so firms can leverage this technology to its fullest.  

 

In the last year, Lionel has worked with REGnosys, where he was instrumental in enhancing the Common Domain Model (CDM), driving innovations across asset classes and regulatory reporting.  


Congratulations, Lionel! We’re excited to see all the great things you’ll accomplish. Curious about Lionel's journey and his day-to-day, read more below.

Tell us a bit about yourself and your role at REGnosys

I have over four decades of experience in technology and operations in financial services, having spent most of my career at JPMorgan or IBM, working across Europe, the US and Asia. 

 

I have been with REGnosys as a consultant for a year, delivering enhancements to the CDM (Common Domain Model) data model to increase its capabilities across a broader range of asset classes and use cases. Recently, I was asked by Leo to join the leadership team and create a new Client Services function, which I am delighted and extremely excited about. 

What do you see as your main priority in your role?

As a new function, we need to scale up quickly to meet client demand. As a product company, we have been successfully delivering innovative solutions using the CDM, partnering with trade associations.  

 

As more buy and sell-side firms grapple with regulatory requirements, we see demand for assistance in deploying DRR (Digital Regulatory Reporting) increase, and we offer best-in-class professional services so firms can utilise these capabilities. 

A day in the life: what’s your typical working day like?

My role at REGnosys is part-time and I am lucky enough to have some additional engagements with other fintech and martech companies. So, my typical day is not typical but is defined by variety! Building relationships with all my clients, colleagues and stakeholders is critical so that, whether we are physically together or remote, we can communicate and collaborate seamlessly.

What is a cool project that you’re working on now?

I have completed a major project to enhance the CDM under a cross-industry initiative we called the Asset Refactoring Task Force. This will deliver support for a larger range of financial products, use cases and life-cycle events.   

 

This has been great as I have had the opportunity to contribute enormously to a project that will have fundamental and long-lasting impact across the whole industry. 

Reporting Audit

First, map your data into CDM...

We have it covered it. All it takes is a +/- 2-day immersion workshop with your tech team to build your mappings.
As a by-product, you get a ready-to-use API to convert all your trade data

… And access your audit results on-line…

Once your trade data have been mapped, our reporting engine compares its output to your reports and analyses any discrepancy.
Analysis is developed within 6 weeks and results published into a web application.

… Through a powerful user interface

Forget static audit reports that end-up on a shelf.
Our reporting engine is available on-demand to reconcile your reporting process end-to-end and down to single trade flow, through a fully interactive interface.
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Model-Driven Regulation

Bring-on the regulatory text…

Can be anything in your existing corpus, as long as it’s digestible and relatively self-contained.
The target is to deconstruct that text and reconstruct a model of the regulation in +/- 2 days.

… We’ll handle the rest…

Our team of regulatory and engineering experts works in immersion with you and guide the process from start to finish.
Our promise: some executable code running by the end of the workshop, delivered to you and ready for demonstration.

… And you’re ready to develop rules on your own

All it takes is a cross-functional team, ideally all-encompassing from policy to technology, who is open to a fresh (and fun!) approach.
The buck doesn’t stop there. Your team is now empowered to carry that project forward inside your organisation.
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Data Modelling

Take an existing data pipeline of any form…

Just choose among your existing business processes to experiment a model-driven approach in +/- 2 days.​
We can start from any kind of artefact, from XML messages down to Excel or even PDF documents.

… To demonstrate the model-driven approach…

Our team of data engineering experts works in immersion with you and guide the process from start to finish.​
Our promise: some executable data pipeline running based on your model by the end of the workshop.

… Which you can deploy within your organisation

All it takes is a cross-functional team of developers and non-developers, who is open to a fresh (and fun!) approach.​
The buck doesn’t stop there. That team is now empowered to carry that project forward and build model-based pipelines for your organisation.
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CDM Integration

We do the data mappings for you…

Just extract transaction data from your booking, reporting or any other systems, we handle the rest.
We build mappings in immersion with your tech team, as a packaged +/- 2-day workshop that includes valuable CDM training – and is fun (yes, really)!

… And deliver you a packaged output…

Forget data mapping spreadsheets and forget hard-coded translation buried deep into your code base.
What you get is a transparent, maintainable CDM translation dictionary, automatically packaged into an API to translate your internal trade messages.

… Which you can start using right away

Start using the API for testing right away. For production deployment, we offer a range of hosting options that adapt to your technology stack.
The application grows with you. Just edit your dictionary to connect more and more systems to CDM.
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