Speaker Details
Gary DeWaal
Senior Managing Director & Group General Counsel, Newedge
Gary DeWaal is a Senior Managing Director and the General Counsel of Newedge, as well as a member of Newedge's governing Executive Committee. Newedge was created on 2 January 2008 from the merger of the Fimat and Calyon Financial Groups. (Newedge refers to Newedge Group and all its branches and worldwide subsidiaries. Newedge Group is jointly owned by Société Générale and Calyon). Newedge's worldwide Legal, Compliance and Financial Crimes Prevention (including AML) departments report to Gary. Gary joined Fimat in March 1995 from Brody White & Company where he served, at various times, as President, General Counsel, Head of Operations and Head of Internal Audit since 1986. Previously Gary worked for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Enforcement in NYC, and Mudge Rose Guthrie & Alexander, a Wall Street corporate law firm whose principal partner was once Richard Nixon.
During June 2010, Gary selected as one of the top five general counsels in the world (in a competition among 3,000 general counsels) by the International Law Office in association with the Association of Corporate Counsel. He is frequently quoted in the media for his thoughts on the international financial services industry, and during August 2010, was interviewed on Bloomberg News by Diedre Bolton for his views on the new Dodd-Frank legislation in the United States.
Gary has published numerous articles on futures and securities industry issues, and frequently lectures or appears as a speaker at futures and securities industry conferences or in training sessions for international regulators. He has an article pending for the October 2010 issue of Futures Magazine entitled "Dodd-Frank: Game Changer for Futures Brokers." Previously he has written "Time to Clean up after the Party" (The Financial Times, October 14, 2008), "America's Financial Regulation Needs an Overhaul" (The Financial Times, October 31, 2007), "Chicago's Merger Has to Protect the Users' Interest," (The Financial Times, November 15, 2006), "Streamlining Regulation" (The Washington Times, August 2, 2005) and "America Must Create a Single Financial Regulator" (The Financial Times, May 19, 2005). He most recently participated as a panelist or speaker on the following panels: Moderator: "Soup to Nuts: General Futures Overview," Futures Industry Association, Annual Law and Compliance Conference (April 2010); Moderator: "Culture of Compliance," International Regulators Symposium and Training Conference, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (March 2010); Co-moderator: "Global Regulatory Outlook," Futures Industry Association, Annual Futures Industry Conference (March 2010); Sole speaker: "Crisis Management," International Regulators Symposium and Training Conference, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (October 2009); and Moderator: "Regulatory Outlook," Futures Industry Association, Futures and Options Expo 2009 (October 2009).