Prior to joining Northern Trust, Paul spent 3 years at BNY Mellon as the Global Head of Trade Surveillance, and before that worked in the Market Surveillance team within Secondary Market Oversight at the FCA, supervising the market abuse surveillance undertaken by market participants, conducting specialist supervision of the Suspicious Transaction and Order Report regime.

Earlier in his career, Paul also spent 20 years in wholesale markets in a range of roles including Fixed Income Treasury Sales, and Head of UK Agency Gilts for an inter-dealer broker. Whilst broking, Paul was responsible for successfully launching web-based electronic auction trading platforms, trading fixed income products.