Amy Caruso

Amy Caruso, Head of Collateral Initiatives, ISDA

Amy Caruso is the Head of Collateral Initiatives at ISDA where she is responsible for developing and delivering a transformational strategy for collateral and liquidity management, including facilitating innovation and compliance while driving standardisation and efficiency. She oversees digital and tokenised collateral initiatives, including serving as the co-sponsor ISDA representative for the US Tokenized Money Market Fund Working Group.

Previously, she served as the Chief Commercial Officer of DTCC-Euroclear GlobalCollateral. Ms. Caruso managed the derivatives reform initiative at Barings, including preparing the company and its parent MassMutual for OTC clearing readiness, ISDA protocols and representations, SEF implementation and regulatory reporting in multiple jurisdictions.

Ms. Caruso was a MassMutual’s Executive Development Program participant, fulfilling various marketing and sales support, product and project management and compliance roles before transitioning to Barings.

She has held numerous industry roles, including co-chairing SIFMA’s Asset Managers Group’s (AMG) Derivatives Operations Committee and she was a member of the SIFMA AMG Executive Steering Committee, the Investment Company Institute’s Securities Operations Advisory Committee, ISITC-SIFMA AMG’s ETD and OTC Cleared T+1 Working Group and ISITC’s Margin and Collateral Working Group.

Ms. Caruso earned a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing and Public Relations from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida and a Masters of Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.