James Cunningham is a Senior Advisor within BNY Mellon’s Office of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs in Europe. He specializes in regulatory initiatives relating to market infrastructure, post-trade and collateral management. In recent years, he has covered such topics as CSD Regulation, EMIR, and T2S-related market practice harmonisation work.He is a member of several industry and regulatory-contact working groups, including the European Central Bank’s Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo) and the T2S Harmonisation Steering Group. He is also currently chair of the T2S Corporate Actions Sub-group (CASG). He has worked in financial services since 1991 in a variety of different positions.