Amer Siddiqui has a leading market position in asset-backed finance transactions and securitisations, with a particular focus on residential mortgage finance, including residential mortgage-backed securitisation, portfolio sales, covered bonds, and forward-flow and static pool warehouse arrangements. He has led on some of the most high-profile multi-billion pound/euro public and private RMBS securitisations in the last few years, in particular, all the Glenbeigh RMBS transactions, the Chester securitisations, Cheshire securitisations, Rochester Financing, Trinity Square, Together CRE, Oat Hill, Malt Hill, Barley Hill, Avon Finance, all the Jubilee Place and Canada Square Funding securitisations, and Elvet Mortgages, to name a few.

As Chief Asset Management Officer, Damian is responsible for Starling’s activities around acquiring and managing loan assets. He is also currently Interim CEO of Fleet Mortgages, our buy-to-let lender. Prior to Starling, he led NatWest Market’s UK Financial Institution client business, where he and his team helped banks and non-bank lenders with funding, risk management and capital markets issuance. He specialised in helping clients buy, sell and finance portfolios of loans.

John is a Managing Director and is EMEA Head of ABS and Global Co-Head of Covered Bonds at HSBC. John has advised on a wide range of transactions across asset classes but particularly in relation to residential mortgages has extensive experience working with both financial institutions, specialist lenders and financial sponsors on projects ranging from vanilla funding to complex special situations.

John has been heavily involved in various key industry initiatives including co-chairing the ICMA task force on Sustainable Securitisation, as well as being a key industry expert on IBOR transition where he is HSBC’s representative on the FCA’s RFR Bond Market Sub-Group (BMSG).

John has over 19 years of experience in the investment banking sector, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA), holds the Securities Institute Diploma (MSI), and a BA (Hons) from the University of Bristol in Mathematics and Philosophy.

Rod joined LendInvest in 2015 to lead the business’ Capital Markets and Fund Management division. Within that time Rod has overseen LendInvest’s AUM grow from £100m to £1.8bn and managed the launch of its listed Retail bond and RMBS programmes. Rod became Chief Executive Officer of LendInvest in January 2020.

Rod is a Chartered Surveyor with 17 years’ experience in property and property finance. He was previously Senior Director and a board member of the Investment Advisory Committee for CBRE. There, as well as advising LendInvest on its Real Estate Opportunity Fund, he advised UK and global institutional clients and managed a range of property and property debt portfolios.

Rod is passionate about property, alternative finance and prop-tech. He has lectured on property finance at the University of Reading and regularly advocates for the sector at conferences globally.

Shaun heads up Securitisation at AFME as Managing Director, leading the Association’s work on securitisation regulatory reform.

Shaun has nearly 25 years of experience in the securitisation industry, having most recently worked for Santander as Managing Director, Head of European ABS in Global Debt Financing at Santander’s CIB. He has also worked for Banco Santander in various roles since 2008, all in securitisation, acting as arranger and lender, covering funding, capital management, relevant Prudential Regulation and ESG matters.

Prior to this, he spent ten years at Fitch Ratings, and before that began his career in the British Army where he was a Captain in the Royal Armoured Corps.

Steve is a Director within the Debt Capital Markets team at Together, a specialist lender that has been offering customers a wide range of flexible secured lending products for 50 years. The Together product range covers short-term finance, auction finance, residential mortgages, buy-to-let and commercial mortgages and development finance with a total loan book of around £6.6bn as of September 2023.

Steve has 20 years financial markets experience and joined Together in 2020. Prior to joining Together Steve worked on the buy-side of the securitised products markets, with over a decade spent managing varied portfolios of asset backed securities for hedge funds and specialist asset managers in London and New York. Steve currently leads Together’s esoteric funding activities and is a CFA Charterholder.

Tristan is currently Head of EMEA/APAC Structured Finance Syndicate at Bank of America with over 15 years of experience in executing and distributing asset-backed transactions in the primary market across a broad range of asset classes and structures. Prior to joining Bank of America in 2015, Tristan worked in a similar role focused on securitised products at JP Morgan and Commerzbank. Tristan holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics (Hons) from The University of Warwick.