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Lyall becomes director at BM&F Bovespa in UK office

09 March 2010

Cathryn Lyall has become director of BM&F Bovespa UK. Lyall will oversee the expansion of the London office, which will be its European hub. Before, she worked as an adviser for the exchange.

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She will be responsible for all product and sales related activities in EMEA and for working with regulators. The exchange does not yet have Recognised Investment Exchange status from the Financial Services Authority in London.

She will work on marketing and business development related activities targeted at potential customers in the region.

Lyall, a former Australian most outstanding woman of the year in a non-traditional area of work or study, joins from independent consultancy Minnamurra, where she was also a director. She has worked for several exchanges in the derivatives industry, including the European offices of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

She was also chief operating officer of broker Icap’s exchange projects. 


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