Speaker
Rudolf Siebel

udolf Siebel is responsible for Legal, Statistics & Research and IT at BVI, the German asset management and fund industry trade association.

Mr. Siebel represents the interests of the fund industry on the Technical Committee at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). He is a member of the European Commission Expert Group on European Financial Data Space (EFDSEG) and the associated Open Fincance subgroup. He was appointed to the Product Advisory Committee of the Digital Token Identifier Foundation (DTI PAC). He is also a board member of the German Asset Management Standards Committee (GAMSC) the Country Sponsor of the GIPS in Germany.

He was a member of the ESMA Post Trade Standing Committee Consultative Working Group (PTSC CWG), the EU Commission European Post Trade Forum (EPTF), and the German SEPA payments council jointly organized by the German treasury BMF and Deutsche Bundesbank. Furthermore he was Chair of the Trading, Reporting & Market Infrastructures Standing Committee (TMR SC) of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) until the end of 2021. Until April 2019 he served also as Vice Chair of the International Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG).

Previously, he was a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer – with Moody´s Investors Service and responsible for analysing and rating money market, bond investment funds as well as life insurance. Mr. Siebel started his career as counsel for securities investment and international law with BVI.

He is a trained German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) and holds a Master of Law degree from Georgetown University, Washington D.C.