Randy Priem, PhD
Expertise:
- Financial market infrastructures
- Financial regulation
- Over-the-counter derivatives
- Law and finance
- Financial risk management
Randy Priem is a finance professor at Antwerp Management School where he teaches the course 'Global Financial Markets' in the Master of Finance. In addition, he is a professor of finance and Fintech at UBI Business School, affiliated with Middlesex University London. He teaches there courses such as 'Finance and Technology', 'International Financial Management', and 'Finance and Capital Markets' to MBA students, students in the bachelor program in management, and students in the master in management of technology. He is also part of the research team and has published in various international journals, such as the European Law Review, the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the Journal of Financial Compliance and Regulation, European Management Review, European Business Law Review, Financial Innovation, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance.
Before joining Antwerp Management School and UBI Business School, Randy Priem pursued a PhD at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Schulich School of Business in Toronto. His research area was private equity and buyout investments but his focus shifted over the past years towards financial market infrastructures, financial regulation, and law and finance topics. He is also an affiliated researcher at Université Saint-Louis in Brussels.
Besides being an academic, Randy Priem is the coordinator of the trading and post-trading unit of the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) in Belgium. He leads a team supervising the Belgian trading venues, benchmark administrators, and central securities depositories. He represents the Belgian market regulator in numerous standing committees at the European market regulator ESMA, such as the Markets Standing Committee (MSC), the Data Standing Committee (DSC), the post-trading working group (PTWG), the DLT working group (DLT WG), the CCP Policy Committee (CCP PC) and the European Supervisory Policy Committee (ESPC). He also represents Belgium at the Steering Group of CPMI-IOSCO, being in charge of the supervision of financial market infrastructures. He is currently also seconded at IOSCO being in charge with various work streams on operational resilience and margins of financial market infrastructures. He is also a member of six European supervisory colleges of central counterparties and a member of the Target2-Securities supervisory committee. He often represents Belgium as a national expert at the European Council when new financial regulation is drafted or existing regulation is reviewed.