Rule Financial, consultant to the investment banking industry, has hired James Tomkinson as a domain specialist in in OTC clearing and collateral management.
Tomkinson is particularly well known for having been part of the team that developed the first European triparty repo product at Clearstream.
In his new position, Tomkinson will play a key role in consulting and servicing clients in need of optimizing collateral as a result of Basel III, Dodd-Frank and EMIR OTC reform and will report into head of domain group, Jim Warburton.
Tomkinson joins the Rule Financial from Citigroup where he was vice president, collateral management, Global Transaction Services. Before Citi, James provided consultancy services at LCH.Clearnet and also held the position of director of repo products at Nomura International.
(JDC)