SVP, Head of Global Markets Legal (Americas)

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SVP, Head of Global Markets Legal (Americas) Role Summary: The SVP, Head of Markets Legal for the Americas is the region’s senior legal advisor for trading, financing, and market‑structure activities for the Global Markets business in the region. Reporting to the EVP, Head of Investment Services and Markets Legal , this role provides strategic legal guidance that supports the business’s trading, liquidity, and execution offerings while ensuring robust legal and regulatory risk management. This position requires a sophisticated legal executive with deep knowledge of markets regulation, trading structures, derivatives, financing arrangements, and market conduct standards. The SVP must apply strong judgment and commercial fluency to support competitive, compliant, and innovative trading capabilities for the rapidly growing Markets business. Key Responsibilities include: Strategic and Commercial Legal Support Serve as the primary legal advisor to Markets leadership in the Americas on strategic initiatives, business expansion, and market‑structure evolution. Provide commercial and innovative legal support for trading models, liquidity offerings, cross‑border financing, and technology‑en...