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Divento adds industry veteran Templer as advisor

25th May, 2016

Derivatives
Europe

Bill Templer left the LSE’s CurveGlobal project in November last year

Former head of futures at Morgan Stanley and UBS Bill Templer has joined Divento Financials as an advisory consultant in the latest high-profile appointment at the proprietary trading and training firm.

The industry veteran has joinedthe team to oversee the expansion of its accredited education programme, andalso the company’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) agenda.

Templer was most-recently working on the London Stock Exchange’s CurveGlobal project. He left in November after more than two years running the LSE’s ambitious futuresinitiative.

He worked on the secret LSEproject as a consultant and left less than three weeks after the LSE finallywent public with the new European interest rates market.

A hugely respected figure in the derivatives community,Templer also serves as a trustee for the industry charity Futures for Kids.

Since leaving the LSE project, hehas been providing advisory services to firms in the listed andover-the-counter derivatives space through his consultancy, FaventusConsulting, where he is a managing director.

Before joining CurveGlobal,Templer was the head of futures at Morgan Stanley, a role he left in 2012 after nearly three years with the firm. He joined the investment bank from UBS wherehe spent more than 14 years. During that time he spearheaded the rapid growthof the Swiss bank's exchange-traded derivatives business.

Prior to this he held positionsat LCH and Rolfe & Nolan.

Templer told FOW Wednesday hewas “attracted by the company’s genuine desire to create opportunity forindividuals through their employer led, work ready education programme". He added: "Bridging the very real gap between education, and obtaining successful,sustainable employment.”

In the advisor role he will helpthe firm attract new potential trading talent from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Former CMEEurope chief operating officer David Feltes and Barclays' head of executivedevelopment Hana Searson joined the Divento board as non-executive directors in February, as first reported by FOW.

Feltes left CME Europe in October last year, as reported by FOW,after serving as COO of the exchange for nearly three years. Searson hasbeen with Barclays for the last six years and currently serves as head ofexecutive development.