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Biography

James Cunningham is a Senior Director within BNY Mellon’s Public Policy & Government Affairs department. His main areas of responsibility are European regulatory and self-regulatory initiatives relating to capital markets, market infrastructure, and post-trade services. He is a member of several regulatory contact groups, including the European Central Bank’s Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo), and the Consultative Working Group of the ESMA Post Trading Standing Committee. He has for many years been active in initiatives relating to market practice harmonisation, notably with respect to corporate actions processing and general meetings. He is currently co-chair of the AMI-SeCo Corporate Events Group and the AMI-SeCo Securities Group.