Darren joined BNY Mellon at the end of 2019 and runs the global 1LOD surveillance team. Before joining BNY Mellon, Darren worked at the Financial Conduct Authority as a Technical Specialist in the Market Surveillance Team, part of the Market Oversight and Enforcement Directorate. At the FCA, Darren was able to use his extensive trading knowledge and experience for the detection of market abuse in financial markets through the creation of in house alerts. In addition, Darren co-authored several publications, hosted forums for UK based banks and represented the FCA at international conferences.

Darren began his career on the LIFFE floor and worked as a market maker in equity and index derivatives. After leaving Barclays Capital in 1999, Darren worked at a UK hedge fund trading UK and Dutch securities until 2007 when he joined DRW Investments. At DRW, Darren helped to set up one of the largest flow trading desks covering UK and German equity and index derivatives. Darren also ran automated trading books at Liquid Trading, Blueprint Capital and Spinaris Capital covering FX and exchange traded commodity, fixed income and index products before moving in to surveillance.