Alan Williamson heads up global business development for the buy-side at SmartDX where he has been working for the past eighteen months. SmartDX aims to be the industry-standard for the negotiation of derivatives contracts for capital markets. Previously he was at DTCC for nearly ten years managing relationships with the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers and investment outsource providers. Alan thus has many years’ experience in working with leading buy-sides in understanding first-hand their operational challenges and delivering technology solutions that can mitigate risk, reduce costs and enhance operational performance. Alan is particularly keen to see financial institutions embrace document digitalisation and collaboration in the derivatives space using cloud-based deployment. This has particular relevance for the collateral management process.