Disha Paliwal

• Perform CCP margin bookings including Initial, Variation, and Intraday margins of various CCPs on T-1 basis.

• Actively involved in TriOptima and LCH compression cycles, including setting notional reduction targets and tolerance thresholds, to help optimize the bank’s balance sheet and manage counterparty risk.

• Participate in Credit Trade matching via MarkitWire and ICE tools, ensuring seamless trade affirmation and clearing alignment.

• Contribute to permanent control frameworks and risk management processes, including KPI submissions and operational risk oversight as Risk SPOC.

• Responsible for OTC derivative trade processing operation including: new deal validation based on term sheets, as well as draft rates confirmation for OTC complex rates products including Swaps, Novation etc
• Within framework of ISDA guidelines
• Responsible to ensure all clearing eligible OTC derivatives trades get cleared via LCH.
• Collaborate with legal, sales & trading to properly agree on appropriate documentation necessary in timely execution and facilitation of trades with Counterparties
• Managing Middle office functions of Fixed Income product where providing support to trading desk like amending and allocation of client trades in a timely and accurate manner
• Investigation and resolution of client fails through various means, including Daily interaction with trading and sales desk to ensure prompt resolution
• Responsible for ensuring current controls are enforced, liaising with IT and Projects Groups to initiate new controls and build STP to improve the firms infrastructure to increase both efficiency and control.

• Played a crucial role in migrating the entire process to a new system called Aladdin and was actively involved throughout the testing phase as well
• Responsible for trade confirmation process of Equities, Bonds and Cash Products as well as resolving reconciliation breaks for the same
• Responsible for collateral management process of OTC products, which consists of booking collateral trades on the basis of daily margin movement

• Successfully played a crucial role in new clients on boarding and implementation process
• Set up Client Portfolios in Aladdin and establish a SWIFT connection between client's custodian and BlackRock in order to exchange SWIFT messages
• Setting up counter parties in Aladdin (along with different SSIs, Desks and Confirms) and at the same time link them with various Electronic Trading Platforms like OASYS, CTM, FXConnect, DerivServ, etc, so that the clients can place trades with them on different Placement Venues

• Initiated a process improvement in which the team got rid of a manual step in which we had to reprocess each and every equity trade manually
• Confirm and settle the trades through SWIFT and highlight breaks and resolve them, if needed manually force match the trades through MT599
• Reviewing aged fails, Depot movements, Cross Border Settlements, short positions for collateral and manage potential exposure to clients

• Successfully transitioned settlements TAT from T+3 to T+2 of platinum Counter parts
• Responsible for settlements of Equities and Corporate Bond Asset class while maintaining excellent client relationships at all levels
• Regularly liaise with brokers to resolve economic discrepancies in pre-matching of trades before settlement date to avoid late deliveries and claims