• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Brad Levy

IHS Markit

Senior Vice President, Global Head of Loans at IHS Markit and Chief Executive Officer of MarkitSERV

Mr. Brad Levy is Senior Vice President, Global Head of Loans at IHS Markit and Chief Executive Officer of MarkitSERV, the firm’s post trade service for OTC derivatives. Mr. Levy is the executive sponsor of the team at IHS Markit implementing distributed ledger technologies (DLT). He is also a board member of Fintech Open Source (FINOS) and a member of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Technology Advisory Committee (TAC), and Co-Chair of the DLT subcommittee. Mr. Levy joined Markit in 2012 prior to its merger with IHS. In 2017, he was fourth on Institutional Investor magazine’s Trading Technology 40, an annual list recognizing innovation and leadership among managers of systems and people in the financial industry. Prior to coming to Markit, he worked at Goldman Sachs for 18 years. Mr. Levy began his career at Lehman Brothers, and from 2005 until 2011, he served as a Managing Director in Goldman’s Principal Strategic Investments Group. Mr. Levy has served as a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Technology Committee, in addition to serving on the Board of Directors of APX Inc., BondDesk, BrokerTec Futures Exchange, CDS IndexCo, FXall, LoanX, NYSE Liffe US, SecuritiesHub, SwapsWire, Symphony Foundation, Tradeweb, and US Futures Exchange. He holds a BS in business administration with a concentration in finance from the State University of New York at Albany.

Sessions With Brad Levy

Tuesday, 12 March

  • 05:00pm - 05:45pm (CST) / -

    Trading & Risk Management: Blockchain & beyond

    Panel Finance/Trading/Risk Management Technology/Innovation

    Financial services provide clear cases of the effective use of blockchain to reduce costs, improve transparency, increase liquidity, and ultimately improve markets. Can blockchain do the same for energy trading in all its forms, and ultimately risk management? Can the industry work together to create secure platforms for deal validation, risk management, compliance monitoring? Can blockchain technology handle confirmation, trade reconciliation, and chain of custody documentation to transform global markets?