Mark Croxon

Mark helps financial industry clients to meet the challenges of lowering costs, improving efficiency, optimising financial resources, and creating sustainable returns. He has a particular interest in leading industry working groups of peer competitors to gain consensus and to create momentum towards innovative solutions. After two years with larger consultancies Mark has returned to independent consulting through his own firm Thames Bench Ltd. which he established in 2018.

Mark has nearly 30 years’ experience in the financial industry having worked in derivatives, prime brokerage and clearing at JPMorgan, Dresdner Bank, Barclays, HSBC and Nomura. In these roles, he often worked on the development of new businesses such as FX Prime Brokerage, Cross-Product Margining, and OTC Derivative Intermediation. Post-financial crisis he worked closely with regulators and market infrastructure providers to develop a client clearing business at Nomura.

Before establishing himself as an independent consultant Mark spent two and a half years as European Head of Regulatory and Market Structure Strategy leading Bloomberg’s MiFID II commercial and technological programme.

Mark is a graduate of Cardiff University holding a BSc Econ (Hons) in Banking and Finance and an MSc Econ in International Economics Banking and Finance.