Ms Beattie has more than 30 years' experience in financial technology and capital markets. She currently runs Market Structure Partners, a strategic consulting firm for financial market participants and policy makers. Prior to that she spent more than a decade in senior positions at Merrill Lynch International. She is currently Chair of ClearToken, a clearing house for digital assets and a Director of the Financial Markets Standards Board, FMSB, a member-owned, international standards setting body. Niki was previously Chair of privately owned XTX Markets, a quantitative market maker and of Aquis, a listed pan European exchange and technology business as well as a Board Director of Kepler Cheuvreux UK Ltd, a French brokerage firm, MOEX, the Moscow Exchange and Borsa Istanbul, the Turkish exchange. Niki has also been a member of the Secondary Markets Advisory Committee for the European Securities Markets Authority for more than 12 years and spent six years on the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority.