Rebecca Buder Weinrauch
Head Of Fixed Income at Asia Securities Industry & Markets Association- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Federal Court Admissions: S.D.N.Y., E.D.N.Y., and Second Circuit
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State Bar Admissions: New York and New Jersey
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Experience
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ASIFMA
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Hong Kong
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head Of Fixed Income
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May 2020 - Present
Rebecca is part of the leadership of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA), an independent trade association charged with promoting the complex capital markets necessary for the region’s continued economic growth. ASIFMA has 100+ member financial services institutions from both the buy and sell side, including banks, asset managers, professional services firms, and market infrastructure service providers.As ASIFMA’s Head of Fixed Income, Rebecca is charged with strategic policy and partnerships, market and regulatory direction, and initiatives for all activities related to fixed income. She is a partner to ASIFMA’s Executive Board and Board of Directors to represent Asia’s major financial stakeholders at national, regional, and global levels. She also works with external stakeholders like global and regional regulators, central banks, multilateral organizations, and infrastructure, as well as global alliance partners in London, Brussels, New York, and Washington, DC like the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA), and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).
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Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel
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2018 - Dec 2019
Rebecca was recruited by Grasshopper’s founder to join the executive management team as the company—a leading Asian proprietary trading firm—expanded globally and continued to establish itself as a major liquidity provider. Rebecca was charged with growing existing high-frequency trading (HFT) platform, building out and leading cryptocurrency division, and finding western strategic partners looking to develop HFT partnerships in Asia. Completing her charge in just 20 months, Rebecca made major contributions in the following areas:• launch of cryptocurreny division• preparation for global expansion• multinational licenses, including one of the first high speed trading FSA registrations
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KCG Holdings, Inc.
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Capital Markets
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100 - 200 Employee
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General Counsel – Asia Pacific
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2010 - 2017
Rebecca was brought in by a GETCO founder, prior to 2013 purchase of Knight Capital Group and formation of KCG Holdings, to build from-scratch Asia operations of a global leader in leveraging technology to operate market making and client execution businesses. She was responsible for compliance, regulatory and legal affairs, business management, and strategic planning. At KCG, Rebecca reported to the global General Counsel and partnered closely with the global CEO, global business heads, and managing directors in Asia in tech-driven, entrepreneurial corporate culture. She regularly traveled around China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, and Australia.Rebecca’s contributions at KCG included:• entry to new geographic markets• relationships with prime brokers, executing and clearing brokers and dark pool operators • relationships with Asian exchanges like TSE, OSE, SGX, SHFE, CFFEX, SGE, KRX, NSE, ASX, JapanNext, TOCOM, and Chi-X (Australia and Japan)• government relations and lobbying• cybersecurity and data security• commercial sales of intellectual property• intellectual property and employment law• corporate governance• Pan Asian compliance • operational risk support • strategic partnerships
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Bank of America
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United States
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Global Market and Treasury Compliance – Asia
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2006 - 2009
Rebecca was recruited by the former deputy general counsel of CSFB Asia (see below), then BOA’s general counsel for Europe and the Americas, to support the Asia platform shift from serving U.S. companies abroad to a more complex, investment banking platform. She was charged with global market, treasury, investment and commercial banking compliance for the bank’s Asia operations.Rebecca was a member of BOA’s Senior Management Risk and New Business Committees and Asia Strategic Planning Committee. She oversaw 40-member compliance team embedded throughout operations in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, India, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Malaysia. At BOA, Rebecca’s contributions included:• institution of new compliance framework• development of asset management business: • development of internet payment platforms• navigation of financial crisis • anti-money laundering • expansion of Chinese operations
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Prudential Financial
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Chief Regulatory Officer
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2003 - 2006
Rebecca was recruited to Prudential Financial by a former SEC colleague to coordinate and advise on material regulatory matters across all Prudential companies, then with ~ 20,000 employees. She reported to the Global General Counsel and sat on Senior Risk Committee with division heads.At Prudential Financial, Rebecca’s contributions included:• landmark resolution of largest corporate criminal investigation at that point in history• board advising, corporate governance and internal investigations• advising business units • government investigations
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Legal and Compliance / Regulatory Counsel and Head of Compliance for Southeast Asia
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1999 - 2003
Rebecca was brought in to set up Asia-wide compliance oversight and framework during heyday of aggressive investment banking in the region. She achieved a complete overhaul and installation on modern, streamlined compliance frameworks that supported growth of CSFB’s Asia platform. At CSFB, Rebecca operated in unique role across geography, bank functions, and financial products during shift from physical trading to e-trading. She reported to the Asia General Counsel and ran team of nine direct reports.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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United States
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Enforcement Attorney
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1996 - 1998
Assigned to investigate and litigate complex fraud, insider trading and other securities cases. Developed case strategies, wrote pleadings and briefs, and took testimony. Negotiated settlements and argued at court hearings or other proceedings. Drafted action memos to SEC Commissioners. Partnered with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for S.D.N.Y., then led by later SEC Chair Mary Jo White, in criminal prosecutions and trials. Assigned to investigate and litigate complex fraud, insider trading and other securities cases. Developed case strategies, wrote pleadings and briefs, and took testimony. Negotiated settlements and argued at court hearings or other proceedings. Drafted action memos to SEC Commissioners. Partnered with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for S.D.N.Y., then led by later SEC Chair Mary Jo White, in criminal prosecutions and trials.
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Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP
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United States
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Law Practice
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1 - 100 Employee
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Corporate advisor and commercial litigation associate
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1992 - 1997
Description: Rebecca split time in 50-lawyer, Chambers-ranked law firm (then Mound, Cotton & Wollan) between the corporate, securities, and commodities practice group, and the insurance / reinsurance practice group. She handled sophisticated environmental cleanup and other disputes typically valued $200 million to $500 million, both domestically and internationally. Rebecca’s litigation matters included:• Settlement of $200 Million Environmental Damage: Traveled repeatedly to Europe to investigate and litigate leak of underground oil storage tanks in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Belgium. • Salt Mine Collapse: Second-chaired insurance litigation over collapse of knowingly over-mined salt mines owned by French multinational Axa (Euronext: CS), causing multiple deaths. Brief adopted by court in summary judgment motion. Case settled thereafter. • “Reg S” Litigation: Defended first SEC litigation involving abuse of “safe-harbor” relieving issuer from SEC registration obligations when a securities offering is deemed to be executed in another country. Case settled.Her additional key roles and contributions at the firm included:• regulatory actions and compliance• complex commercial litigation• exchange governance and membership compliance
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Education
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Cardozo School of Law
Doctor of Law (JD), Law -
1986 - 1987
The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Diploma in International Affairs, International Relations and Affairs -
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The Johns Hopkins University
Bachelor's degree, Policital Science
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