Anish Chawla

Heading CIB Ops - Securities Operations, Equity Middle Office, Funding Operations, Futures Commission Merchant & Prime Brokerage Operations managing:

• Trade Lifecycle: Pre-settlements, settlements, post-settlement fails, and exception handling.
• Asset Servicing & Syndicate Operations: Corporate actions, dividends, interest payments, and syndicate deal support.
• Funding & Treasury Operations: Cash management, collateral optimization, and funding flows.
• FCM & Prime: End to end flow management including settlements of futures trades, Brokerage, Middle office and market making business.
• Control & Assurance: Reconciliation, quality assurance, and operational risk management.

· Regulatory Oversight: Compliance with global and local reporting requirements, ensuring adherence to evolving regulatory frameworks

CIB Ops Site lead for Bangalore Location driving:

Strategic Leadership: Directed the Bangalore site for CIB Operations, overseeing multi‑asset class Middle Office and Back Office functions across Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Prime Brokerage.

Global Integration: Partnered with global stakeholders to align India operations with firm‑wide strategy, ensuring seamless execution across time zones and business lines.

Operational Excellence: Championed process optimization, automation, and risk control initiatives, driving measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and client service.

Talent Development: Built and scaled high‑performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning across 500+ professionals.

Governance & Control: Strengthened operational resilience through enhanced risk frameworks, regulatory compliance, and robust quality assurance programs.

Change Management: Led site‑wide transformation projects including migration of complex processes, technology adoption, and implementation of global operating

Achievements:

• Improvement in client satisfaction scores from 87% to 95% through blur print ring fencing initiative & service excellence.
• Improvement in Allocation & Affirmation rates from 85% to 96% through client outreach and technology interventions.

· Global Lead of Transformation & change Management for Securities Operations, responsible for delivering end-to-end strategic and tactical transformation, delivering $850k in annual savings for 2024 and 2025 using various levers including Intelligent automation through the citizen developers' model for low-code automation tools like Alteryx, Xceptor, Tableau, and others.

• Settlement utility build-out across DTCC, FED, and Clearstream settlements resulting in consistent practices, cross-trained and fungible teams, efficiency of 12 HC, and efficient inventory management.
• Led Alteryx solution implementation for Global Inventory Management for International Settlements resulting in improvement in settlement rate from 81% to 87% in preparation for EMEA T+1.
• Payment's utility build-out for securities and funding operations, automating $200 billion in manual wire payments per annum, resulting in 10 headcount efficiency and significant risk reduction.
• Asset servicing platform consolidation through BaNCS implementation resulting in a 99% STP rate for Mandatory announcements & payments.
• Led Artificial Intelligence implementation through large-scale LLM models to automate the capture and reconciliation of FX brokerage invoices, resulting in an efficiency of $350k per annum.
• Established and led the enterprise risk function with oversight across compliance, audit readiness, issue management, and incident handling minimizing errors by 10%.

End to end delivery of Custody & Broker Dealer Operations across trade processing, settlements, asset servicing, taxation, disclosures, and regulatory reporting.

Dual‑Site Leadership: Directed CIB Operations across Bangalore and Manila, managing large multi‑asset class Middle Office and Back Office teams supporting Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, and Prime Brokerage.

Global Operating Model: Established and harmonized cross‑site processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and risk control across both hubs while aligning with global standards.

Operational Resilience: Strengthened business continuity and resiliency frameworks across sites, enabling seamless support for global markets during peak volumes and crisis events.

Talent Strategy: Built and developed leadership pipelines across India and the Philippines, fostering collaboration, diversity, and high‑performance culture across 1,000+ professionals.

Transformation & Change Management: Spearheaded site‑wide migrations, automation initiatives, and adoption of new technologies, delivering measurable improvements in cost efficiency and control environment.

Stakeholder Engagement: Acted as senior liaison for global business heads, regulators, and auditors, representing both Bangalore and Manila operations at the executive level.

Governance & Control: Enhanced cross‑site risk management, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting frameworks, ensuring compliance with global and local requirements.

Culture & Collaboration: Promoted cross‑location collaboration, knowledge sharing, and employee engagement initiatives, positioning Bangalore and Manila as strategic centers of excellence for CIB Ops.

Achievements:

• Reorganized large teams into centers of excellence/utilities, including Announcement Capture, Settlements utility, Payments, Disclosures, and Claims, to enhance client service, drive 10% efficiency, standardize operations, and strengthen controls.
• Established central transformation team for strategic and tactical program execution, platform consolidation, and intelligent automation, delivering 10% cost savings per annum.
• Led periodic business reviews with product heads across regions, focusing on delivering meaningful client enhancements.
• Implemented risk management strategies, minimizing errors by 20%.
• Streamlined processes, reducing operational costs by 10% annually.

• Managing end-to-end operational delivery for one of the largest European banking clients, overseeing account opening, maintenance, and settlement instruction setups across asset classes with a 24/5 coverage model for APAC, Europe, and WIIEM regions.
• Led end to end Operational delivery involving account opening, account maintenance & settlement instructions set-up for Fixed Income, OTC, FXMM & Equities product.
• Spearheaded the global consistency program to standardize callback and settlement instruction practices.
• Successfully implemented cost-saving strategies, cutting expenses by 20% annually.
• Led the global consistency program for standard practices for callback and settlement Instructions set-up.

• Responsible for performing financial analysis to approve credit limits for DELL customers in line with the company's overall credit policy, including authorizing over-line approvals of up to $300K.
• Prepare and submit detailed analysis reports to the head of credit for exposures above $300K, covering financial statement reviews, repayment performance, feedback from the collections department on outstanding amounts, and profit margins for the deal.

• Analyzing financial statements of customers and preparing a detailed analysis report for sanctioning of real estate & equipment loans for GB Customers.

• Preparation & presentation of accounts to Board of Directors & Audit Committee.