Alan Williamson

Alan Williamson manages Partnerships & Alliances for SmartDX, the Capital Markets division of Smart Communications.  Alan has been with SmartDX for the past two years, having previously worked in senior relationship management roles within the Fintech space for over 20 years, most recently at DTCC where he spent ten years. Alan sees technology as a key enabler for Capital Markets and looks to evangelise the new generation of cloud-based tools that facilitate the automation of documentation within the derivatives space:  digitisation of legacy documents, workflow-based document negotiation, exposure of data points held within negotiated documents, and mapping of such data into downstream infrastructure, including blockchain (DLT). Given the raft of mandatory derivatives regulation already in-flight or upcoming, Alan argues that this new technology will enable the industry to scale its limited resources in a way that it has been unable to in the past. Ultimately it will allow the derivatives function to do more with less.