James Cunningham is a Managing Director and Senior Advisor within BNY Mellon’s Office of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs in Europe. He specializes in regulatory initiatives relating to market infrastructure, posttrade and collateral management. In recent years, he has covered such topics as CSD Regulation, Shareholder Rights Directive 2 (SRD2), and T2S-related market practice harmonisation work. He is a member of several industry and regulatory-contact working groups, including the European Central Bank’s Advisory Group on Market Infrastructures for Securities and Collateral (AMI-SeCo) and the T2S Harmonisation Steering Group. He is also currently chair of the T2S Corporate Actions Sub-group (CASG) and is also a member of the Consultative Working Group of ESMA's Post Trade Standing Committee.. He has worked in financial services since 1991 in a variety of different positions.