ICI Global, the Investment Company Institutes (ICI) recently launched global trade body for the fund management industry, has appointed Giles Swan as director of Global Funds Policy. Swan joins from the Financial Services Authority (FSA), where he was a technical specialist on the collective investment schemes policy team. He will report to Dan Waters, managing director of ICI Global and will commence his London-based employment with the industry body in January 2012.
ICI Global is gearing up to engage with the critical global fund issues of the day, said Waters. Giless expertise and experience, and his excellent relationships with the fund management industry and regulatory policy makers will be a senior addition to the ICI Global team.
Swan led negotiations for the FSA in the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (alongside HM Treasury), since the Directives original publication. He has chaired one of the four ESMA Task Forces developing the implementing measures under the Directive and represented the FSA in ESMAs Investment Management Standing Committee.
Swan joined the FSA in May 2005, initially supervising asset management firms before taking on additional responsibility for the prudential supervision of a major life insurance group’s Asian, US, and European businesses.
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