Marc Gratacos

Independent Consultant

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Professional Interests

I provide consulting around the implementation and management of XML standards including modelling, technology evaluation, and training courses. I also provide consulting around organizational structures and business processes.

My main area of expertise is OTC Derivatives and FpML. I work as a consultant for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA). ISDA is the global trade association representing participants in the privately negotiated derivatives industry, a business covering swaps and options across all asset classes (interest rate, currency, commodity and energy, credit and equity). For ISDA, I am helping to develop FpML, the industry-standard XML vocabulary for complex financial products. I participate in all the working groups, putting together proposals, giving technical support, editing the specifications, and chairing the FpML Business Process Working Group. In addition, I work consulting and giving training courses in FpML and developing a variety of projects in the OTC derivatives industry.

I got a Masters degree in Information Management and Systems from UC Berkeley and a BA in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

I live in Badalona, my hometown located near Barcelona, but I travel frequently to London and New York.

Resume

• My profile at LinkedIn

Recent Projects

• Consulted for global organizations developing their messaging based on FpML.
• Integration projects between front-office and back-office systems (Murex, Kondor+, OPICS).
• Representation of complex structured OTC products for internal messaging.
• FpML over FIX: using FpML for product and business events definitions and FIX for messaging.
• Integration with DTCC Deriv/SERV and Swapswire.
• Developed a set of templates in order to facilitate the population of a fully compliant FpML message identifying required, defaulted, and derived fields.
• In-house FpML training.
• Clients include central banks, investment banks, asset managers, custodians, technology companies.
• Speaker at conferences such as ISDA FpML Conference, SIBOS, Energy Back Office, EMART Energy.

Courses I am regularly teaching in New York and London:

• FpML Training Course
• Extending FpML - An Advanced FpML Training Course
• Processing FpML - An Advanced FpML Training Course

Contact

Last updated: September 2009