New York & London, 20 March 2018 – RegTek.Solutions, the global provider of regulatory reporting solutions, today announced two senior sales appointments to support its growth in the core markets of North America and Europe.

Tom Morris has been appointed Head of Sales for Europe, based in London. Tom joins from NEX Group, where he was Head of Regulatory Reporting Solutions and responsible for the business development of the firm’s MiFID II, EMIR and SFTR products. Prior to that, Tom was Head of Sales and Relationship Management for post-trade solutions at MarketAxess (TRAX), leading the business development of their trade and transaction reporting practice. Tom's 20-year career in post-trade sales includes senior roles at LSE Group, Markit and UBS.

Rob McGowan has been appointed Head of Sales for North America, based in New York. Rob joins from SmartStream Technologies, where he was SVP Sales, focusing on all aspects of transaction lifecycle process improvements and control for the middle and back office. This included reconciliation, regulatory reporting, cash management, corporate action processing and reference data. Rob’s experience working for financial technology firms in North America spans 20 years, with positions at Duco, Infogix and Ericom Software.

Both Tom and Rob report to Brian Lynch, CEO of RegTek.Solutions.

"We are very happy to welcome Tom and Rob to our growing team. They each bring extensive experience of working in high-growth financial technology firms in our core markets", said Brian Lynch. "RegTek.Solutions has made great progress in its first year as an independent firm, we now have more than 30 FTEs worldwide and 20 global clients. Tom's and Rob's domain knowledge, sales experience and contacts will help fuel our further growth and I’m confident that they will each play a significant role in helping us achieve our strategic ambitions, namely; being instrumental in helping as many clients as possible to achieve sustainable compliance for trade and transaction reporting."

"I’m excited to be joining RegTek.Solutions at this pivotal time and contributing to the next phase of solid growth as the new regulatory landscape beds down", said Tom Morris. "The company has an innovative set of products, an impressive client list from the buy-side, sell-side and venues, and an ambitious strategic plan."

“I am delighted to be a part of the RegTek.Solutions team and helping lead the market’s journey to sustainable compliance”, said Rob McGowan. “The firm’s strategic approach combined with the rapid adoption of their technology by clients and partners provides a tremendous foundation of success to build upon in the coming year and beyond.”

RegTek.Solutions’ mission is to be at the heart of the financial market's transformation to Sustainable Compliance. The company delivers pragmatic, modular software solutions, built around actionable regulatory intelligence, fully maintained to track regulatory updates. RegTek.Solutions focuses on four critical compliance outcomes: quality, completeness, accuracy and transparency.

Clients range from Tier 1 financial firms, which integrate specialist components with their bespoke systems, to leading trade repositories and smaller reporting firms. Buy-side, sell-side and trading venues also use RegTek.Solutions’ ‘off-the-shelf’ products to meet specific regulatory demands.

Formed in 2017, RegTek.Solutions was incorporated by Risk Focus Inc., the firm responsible for the original vision, development and distribution of the software suite.

RegTek.Solutions is backed by the Deutsche Börse Group, through their DB1 ventures division, along with Illuminate Financial Management, the specialist Capital Markets venture fund.

With offices in New York, London and Riga, RegTek.Solutions’ expertise and solutions are trusted by the world’s top banks, including more than half of the G16 banks, as well as regulatory reporting intermediaries and buy-side firms.

For more information, visit https://RegTekSolutions.com