About
Ayesha Khanna is a strategic management and technology specialist with over ten years of experience in leveraging technology and optimizing operations to gain competitive advantage in global financial markets.
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ayesha@ayeshakhanna.com
Ayesha Khanna is a strategic management and technology specialist with over ten years of experience in leveraging technology and optimizing operations to gain competitive advantage in global financial markets. She has extensive experience guiding Executive Management in technology strategy development, benchmarking to market competitors and ensuring business-IT alignment. In particular, Ayesha has expertise in best practices for seamless automation of front, middle and back offices functions; ensuring compliance with global regulation; and overseeing governance of outsourcing partners. Clients have included leading broker-dealers, buy-side institutions and clearinghouses such as Banc of America Securities, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, American International Group, US Trust, Deutsche Bank, and Depository of Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Her product area expertise includes trading, risk management, clearing & settlement, business continuity and compliance systems for equities, fixed income and derivatives securities.
Ayesha is the author of several articles on the topic of finance & technology, and has been on the Architecture and Risk committees of FpML, an industry standard for messaging financial products. Ayesha is also series editor of The Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services published by Reed Elsevier, and author of the book Straight Through Processing for Financial Services (Reed Elsevier, 2007). She is currently working on her second book, The New Buy-Side: Strategies to Leverage Technology and Succeed in Global Financial Markets (Reed Elsevier, forthcoming 2009).
Ayesha has a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University and an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
Ayesha is the author of several articles on the topic of finance & technology, and has been on the Architecture and Risk committees of FpML, an industry standard for messaging financial products. Ayesha is also series editor of The Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services published by Reed Elsevier, and author of the book Straight Through Processing for Financial Services (Reed Elsevier, 2007). She is currently working on her second book, The New Buy-Side: Strategies to Leverage Technology and Succeed in Global Financial Markets (Reed Elsevier, forthcoming 2009).
Ayesha has a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University and an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
- Straight Through Processing for Financial Services (Reed Elsevier, 2007)
- The New Buy-Side: Strategies to Leverage Technology and Succeed in Global Financial Markets (Reed Elsevier, forthcoming 2009)
- Electronic and Program Trading (Reed Elsevier, 2006) (Editor)
- Introduction to Financial Technology (Reed Elsevier, 2005) (Editor)