Basu Choudhury, Head of Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives, OSTTRA FX & Securities
With over twenty years’ experience in business, technology, regulation and financial markets infrastructure, Basu currently works within the FX and Securities division of OSTTRA,
the new home of MarkitServ, Traiana , TriOptima and Reset.
Basu’s main focus is on driving strategic initiatives in order to deliver service capabilities for institutional firms operating in the wholesale FX and Securities markets.
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.
in Economics, specializing in econometrics and options theory, from the University of Toronto in 1997.