Trainers
- Deep and diverse international training experience
- Certified member of the Securities Institute
- Accredited from the Financial Services Skills Council in the UK
- Visiting lecturer at international business schools
- Former Head of Training at the London Metal Exchange (LME)
Senior Vice President - Head of Business Development, Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX).
Mr Carminati has fifteen years international experience in corporate, trade and risk finance including financial and commodity derivatives. As head of the BFX Training Institute he is responsible for developing all training and education programmes.
Mr Carminati previously headed the market education department at the London Metal Exchange (LME) – the world’s premier metals and industrial materials exchange - achieving considerable international growth. He was responsible for developing a credit and finance academy in the UK as a result of a joint venture initiative between D&B and Hemsley Fraser Group. During his career he has also worked on projects for the Bank of England, UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) and major investment banks.
Mr Carminati has been a visiting lecturer for a number of business schools, held financial seminars across the world, chaired and spoke at international conferences and has been an external examiner for the Institute of Leadership and Management, as well as the Chartered Management Institute.
Simone graduated in international studies with economics and holds a Masters Degree in International Relations specialising in the trading dynamics of the European internal market.
He is a certified member of the Securities Institute and is certified, under the Training Assessment Programme Competency Framework, in ‘training delivery skills’ and he is a ‘Recognised Trainer’ from the UK Financial Services and Skills Council.
- Held key senior positions at SEBI - Executive Assistant to Chairman SEBI, Head of Office of International Affairs, and Chief of Primary Markets Division. Was Chief of Compliance and Risk Management at SBI Capital Markets Ltd.
- Involved in every key initiative of SEBI. Experience of participating in Governmental and High level committees. Achievements of clearing India’s first Book built IPO and first buy back offer
- Played significant role for SEBI at IOSCO and was involved in World Bank, USAID projects relating to Indian securities markets
- Was SEBI Board member on stock exchange and self regulatory bodies
Chief Compliance and Legal Officer, the Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX).
Mr Ramesh Chief Compliance and Legal Officer at the BFX, brings over 20 years of rich regulatory and legal expertise in the securities markets.
He has been a senior regulator with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) from its evolving years, and has substantially contributed to policy and regulation making in varied areas in the primary and secondary markets. He is well known in the Indian securities markets as the architect of the public offering guidelines, the listing rules, the book building rules and buy back regulations, besides having contributed to most of the rules and regulations in the Indian securities markets.
He was Head of the Office of Chairman, SEBI, as General Manager and Executive Assistant to the Chairman of SEBI until March 2005. During this term he aided the Chairman and the Board of SEBI in introducing a number of reforms including demutualization of stock exchanges, setting up an integrated market surveillance mechanism, straight through processing, introduction of the advance ruling system, setting up the Central Listing Authority, strengthening intermediary supervision and designing a robust investor education campaign. He was also involved in advising the Government of India in its historic disinvestment process during 2004. He headed the Office of International Affairs at SEBI and was a member of various IOSCO committees, and involved in IMF, World Bank and USAID projects. He was also a SEBI Director on the Board of Stock Exchanges and self-regulatory bodies, besides being a member of various SEBI committees.
After this assignment Mr Ramesh was with SBI Capital Markets, a subsidiary of India’s largest commercial bank, State Bank of India, as its Head of Compliance, Legal and Risk Management, where he set up the entire compliance and risk management function. Prior to his current assignment at BFX he worked as an Executive Director at Centrum Group, one of India’s leading institutional broker-dealer and investment banks having operations in the Indian and US markets.
Mr Ramesh is a qualified lawyer, company secretary and cost accountant. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Commerce and in Law, and is a member of the professional institutes including Company Secretaries of India, Institute of Cost Accountants of India and the Indian Institute of Bankers.
