18 November 2011: Finance Watch today announces that Benoît Lallemand and Frédéric Hache have been appointed as Senior Research analysts, and Sylvie Delassus has been appointed Head of Operations.
Finance Watch is a non-profit public interest association dedicated to making finance work for the good of society.
Benoît Lallemand has 10 years’ experience in the clearing and settlement industry, most recently as a steering committee coordinator and senior internal consultant at Euroclear. He is an expert in market infrastructure and a specialist in asset servicing and data reporting. Benoît also has roots in the NGO world as a founding-member of ATTAC-Bruxelles.
Frédéric Hache has 12 years’ investment and commercial banking experience and joins from the foreign exchange derivatives desk of BNP Paribas, where he was a specialist in structured transactions. He has also worked at Credit Suisse in London and KBC Bank in Paris, after training in corporate treasury.
Sylvie Delassus has more than 20 years’ experience including 11 years in senior operations roles, with experience in start-up structures. She has applied her organisation skills in different environments, including the non-profit sector where she has been in charge of the fund-raising of Institut Pasteur in Paris.
“I am delighted to welcome our new joiners today, who bring the Finance Watch team to seven people. Frédéric and Benoît’s knowledge and experience from the world of finance and Sylvie’s expertise in operations and fund-raising will make Finance Watch more effective in its mission to bring the public interest into the debate over financial reform,” said Thierry Philipponnat, Finance Watch Secretary General.

