Rich Robinson, Industry Engagement, Standards, and Open Data Strategy, Bloomberg
Rich Robinson is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in the financial industry, across operations and technology functions. He has worked throughout the front, mid and back offices at major global custodian banks, brokerages, and industry utilities, leading transformative projects in data, operations workflow, and messaging.
For over 20 years, Rich has been heavily involved in the industry as an active participant of key working groups related to international data and messaging standards, including ISITC, FISD, EDM Council, ISO, ANSI/X9, ISDA, and SIFMA. He co-founded the first group on Unique Instrument Identification in 2000 and was a primary participant in the Best Practice work for ISO15022. He was Convenor for the ISO Study Group on CFI’s and UPI, and led the ISO Working Group on the Unique Transaction Identifier standard. Rich is on the Board of Directors of ISITC, serving as 2nd Vice Chair, and is lead Sherpa for the Asia Pacific Finance Forum’s Financial Market Infrastructure Workstream on behalf of the Asian Business Advisory Council to the region’s Finance Ministers.
A regular speaker at conferences, he has been published in the Journal of Securities Operations and Custody, Waters, and Inside Reference Data, among other global financial services publications. His recent 2018 paper, “A linguistics approach to solving financial services standardization,” introduces the innovative idea to use applied linguistics to guide standards development and regulatory decisions, and was published in the Journal of Financial Markets Infrastructure.
Richard is currently head of Strategy for Standards and Open Data at Bloomberg LLP. He works globally with regulators, legislators, and industry leaders on addressing data and standards issues to create more efficient and transparent markets. He holds an MBA in Organizational Behavior and Information Technology from NYU’s Stern School and a B.S. in Industrial Management with a concentration in Management Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.