Chair
Bloomberg, LP
Rich Robinson is a senior executive and author with over 30 years of experience in the financial industry, across operations and technology functions. He has held leadership positions throughout the front, mid and back offices at major global custodian banks, brokerages, and industry utilities, leading transformative projects in data, operations workflow, and messaging. Rich is an active participant and Chairperson of key working groups related to international data and messaging standards.
His book, “Understanding Financial Services Through Linguistics” was published by Business Expert Press in 2021 and explores how to improve the creation and application of data, standards, and regulation in financial services through an applied linguistics lens.
Rich is currently Chief Strategist, Open Data and Standards at Bloomberg LP. He works globally with regulators, legislators, and industry leaders on addressing data and standards issues to create more efficient and transparent markets. Bloomberg supports two international open data standards, FIGI and LEI, and Rich focuses on helping firms and regulators leverage these standards to achieve better interoperability and create efficiencies across the industry.
He is Chair of ISITC, co-Vice Convenor of the ISO20022 RMG, and Sherpa for the APFF Financial Market Infrastructure Workstream. He is a regular speaker at conferences and has been published in the Journal of Securities Operations and Custody, the MDPI journal “Standards”, Waters, and Inside Reference Data, among other global financial services publications.
He holds an MBA in Organizational Behavior and Information Technology from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a B.S. in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
