Clearing Academy

Through the Clearing Academy, CCP Global partners with universities to offer courses that support financial professionals in clearing, settlement, operations, and compliance in deepening their expertise in global clearing dynamics, post‑trade operations, risk management, and regulatory compliance. The courses also explore the nature, impact, and adoption of new technologies.

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CCPG-KCL Clearing Academy 2026 Schedule

Speakers:

Ron Berndsen	Ron Berndsen is attached to the Tilburg School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University as Professor of Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs). Ron holds a number of INED roles. He is the senior independent non-executive director of LCH Ltd and SA and chairs the LCH Risk Committees. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Quantoz Payments, a Dutch blockchain company licensed as an Electronic Money Institution. Ron is an independent non-executive director of Fnality UK Ltd, a UK decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure. Professor Ron Berndsen has been active in the field of payments and financial market infrastructures for over 20 years. He was Head of the Oversight Department and Head of the Market Infrastructures Policy Department at De Nederlandsche Bank. Ron also served as a member on the Market Infrastructure Board at the European Central Bank and as member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures at the Bank of International Settlements. He also co-chaired the FSB Group on Cross-Border Crisis Management for Financial Market Infrastructures and was a member of the oversight committees of CLS, EuroCCP, Euroclear, LCH, SWIFT and TARGET2. Ron has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures from its inception in 2012 until 2023. He was awarded a doctorate of Tilburg University in 1992 for his PhD thesis in Economics and Artificial Intelligence.
Lee Betsill	Lee Betsill is a long-standing CCP risk practitioner whose career spans the CME trading floor, the Nordic exchange group OM/OMX, the London Stock Exchange (where he led EDX London) and CME Group, which he joined in 2010. He served as Chief Operating Officer and then Chief Executive Officer of CME Clearing Europe before becoming Chief Risk Officer of CME Clearing in Chicago from 2015 until 2025. He chaired CCP Global (then CCP12) from 2016 to 2018 and has advised the U.S. CFTC on CCP risk and governance. He holds a finance degree from the University of Wyoming and a master’s in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Rhys Bidder	Rhys Michael Bidder is a blockchain consultant, educator, and researcher who serves as an Advisor for Chainlink Labs (focusing on stablecoins, tokenization, and digital asset regulation and compliance) and a Research Affiliate with the Central Bank of Ireland (advising on the digital euro and payments). He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance at King’s Business School, King’s College London , and Deputy Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance. His research and educational work span macroeconomic policy, banking, regulation, and digital assets—with a particular focus on stablecoins and central bank digital currencies. Earlier in his career, he was an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a consultant for the Bank of England, and he remains a member of the CEPR Research Policy Network for Fintech and Digital Currencies.
Fernando Cerezetti	Fernando Cerezetti is the Chief Risk Officer at ClearToken CCP, a financial market infrastructure for digital assets, where he focuses on risk management frameworks for the evolving digital asset ecosystem. His career spans central clearing, regulatory advisory, and industry governance. He previously served as a Director at ICE Clear Europe (Intercontinental Exchange), as a Risk Advisor to the Bank of England, and as Chair of the Risk Committee at the European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH). He is currently a member of the Consultative Working Group for ESMA’s CCP Policy Committee. His research interests sit at the intersection of financial market infrastructures, financial stability, and statistical methodology —particularly Bayesian approaches to risk. He holds a PhD in Statistics and is completing a PhD in Financial Economics at King’s College London. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Exchanges, Clearing &Settlement (JECS) and the Journal of Securities Operations & Custody (JSOC).
Klaus Löber	Klaus Löber is Chair of ESMA’s CCP Supervisory Committee (CCP SC), established under EMIR in 2020 to support a resilient EU clearing ecosystem by promoting supervisory convergence and monitoring risks posed by central counterparties (CCPs) to the EU financial system. The CCP SC covers all EU CCPs and recognised third-country CCPs. He also chairs ESMA’s CCP Policy Committee, contributing to the EU Single Rule Book for CCPs, and, following the latest EMIR review, chairs the Joint Monitoring Mechanism, which assesses developments and stability risks across the wider clearing ecosystem, including CCPs, clearing members and their clients. In addition, Klaus co-chairs the CPMI-IOSCO Operational Resilience Group. Previously, he was Head of Oversight at the European Central Bank, responsible for the oversight of financial market infrastructures and payment instruments and schemes. Earlier roles include Head of Secretariat of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, as well as positions at the European Commission, Deutsche Bundesbank and in private practice. He publishes regularly and lectures at universities.
Robert Steigerwald	Robert Steigerwald is an independent policy advisor, recently retired from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago where his work focused on central clearing, financial market utilities, and post-trade policy. He has published widely on CCP design, settlement risk, and the role of central banks in the payment system, including the influential paper “A CCP Is a CCP Is a CCP” (with Robert Cox). He holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Teo Floor	Teo Floor is the CEO of The Global Association of Central Counterparties – known as CCP Global. He was appointed to lead the association from October 2020, after having served on the Executive Board since 2017. Teo serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures, the ESMA CCP CP CWG and the CFTC GMAC TIS. Teo worked for Eurex Clearing, a CCP within Deutsche Börse Group, from 2008 to 2020. At Eurex Clearing, he worked in various risk management and strategy roles in Frankfurt and London, with his last position as the Special Advisor to the CEO. Teo holds a MSci in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Bath, and a BSci in Joint Mathematics and Computer Science from Imperial College. Originally from Finland, he has lived in a variety of countries, and currently resides in Amsterdam with his wife and their daughters.