Michael Sparks Bio

Michael Sparks is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer responsible for risk management and compliance oversight of the Issuer Services businesses at BNY Mellon. With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Michael has risk management and first line business experience covering global custody operations, on exchange and OTC clearing and settlement, debt and equity capital markets servicing, equity and FX trading, transaction banking and private client stockbroking. Michael began his career at Abbey Stockbrokers (part of the Santander Group), going on to join BNY Mellon in 2000. In that time, Michael has held first line management roles in Pershing’s Retail Brokerage Middle Office and Risk Management roles aligned to Pershing, Securities Operations, Global Collateral Management, ABN Amro Mellon, Corporate Trust, Depositary Receipts and Treasury Services.