Washington, DC— FIA today announced the winners of its President's Award, an annual honour that recognizes outstanding individuals for their contributions to the global cleared derivatives industry over the past year.
The 2025 class of President's Award winners are:
- Alexandra Büchold, Deutsche Bank, Operations
- Timothy Hoopes, Morgan Stanley, Operations
- Loredana Sinko, SEB, Advocacy
- Melanie Weber, Eurex, DMIST
- Dan Wiebicke, Morgan Stanley, Capital
"FIA relies on partners at our member firms to help manage industry-wide projects, contribute to comment letters, inform the industry about emerging trends and respond quickly to unexpected market events," said FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken. "This award recognizes these five individuals for their direct and meaningful contributions to our work in 2024. FIA deeply appreciates them for partnering with us in our mission of supporting open, transparent and competitive derivatives markets."
Alexandra Büchold, President's Award – Operations
Alexandra Büchold, global head of listed derivatives exchange mandatory technology at Deutsche Bank, has been in the industry for more 25 years. Her responsibilities include the roll out of listed derivatives mandatory clearing releases globally, new markets/new products and strategic listed derivatives clearing related initiatives. Büchold has served on the FIA Europe Operations Committee for several years, consistently working with exchanges, CCPs, industry participants and technology service providers on best practices, operational changes and technology solutions. Over the past year, she has continued contributing her expertise with relevant exchanges and CCPs on operational change, including the Euronext Clearing migration.
Tim Hoopes, President's Award – Operations
Tim Hoopes, executive director at Morgan Stanley, serves as head of derivatives clearing trade support and as an officer on the FIA Operations Americas division board. Hoopes’ leadership and expertise have played an important role in advancing the objectives of the Derivatives Market Institute for Standards throughout 2024. Most notably, he led a committee of the Operations Division to propose an industry standard for position transfers – the first standard proposed by an entity external to DMIST. Hoopes then led a working group, on behalf of DMIST, to further define the standard and publish a consultation paper in January 2025. Beyond leading discussions at Operations committee and DMIST workgroup meetings, Hoopes dedicated extensive effort to examining all aspects of the proposed standard, developing a position transfer workflow and taking input from multiple sources, including CCPs and compliance representatives from brokerage firms.
Loredana Sinko, President's Award – Advocacy
Loredana Sinko is an advisor at Group Regulatory Affairs at SEB. Sinko is responsible for SEB’s response to regulatory reforms regarding digital finance, post trading and capital markets. With over 20 years of experience from the regulatory world, she has a solid background in supervision, central banking and both European and international policymaking. Sinko is an active member of FIA’s EMIR working group and government relations committee, the Swedish Securities Markets Association’s EMIR and CCP working group and Finance Sweden’s digital finance and central bank digital currencies working group. She also serves as a member of ESMA’s consultative working group for the post trading working group. Sinko has been especially active in bringing her expertise to FIA’s advocacy on EMIR 3.0 and its impact on European customers and markets.
Melanie Weber, President's Award – Operations
Melanie Weber, director and head of derivatives clearing design at Eurex Clearing, took a leadership role in the development of DMIST’s final standard for average pricing. She led the average pricing working group through discussions of consultation paper responses, helped the working group reach consensus on all aspects of the standard and presented the final standard to the DMIST sponsor board. Beyond leading the working group, Weber spent many hours preparing for meetings, advising the DMIST team and lending her expertise to designing the standard.
Dan Wiebicke, President's Award – Capital
Dan Wiebicke, executive director at Morgan Stanley, is responsible for finance, analytics and capital in the derivatives clearing and execution business. Wiebicke began work on the FIA capital committee with its regulatory initiative focused on the supplemental leverage ratio collateral offset for client clearing. He subsequently represented Morgan Stanley in the FIA-led engagement in Washington, D.C. related to the Basel III Endgame and Global Systemically Important Bank surcharge changes. Wiebicke often led discussions on how capital impacted clearing members. He kept the committee driving towards solutions tailored to clearing businesses and consistently provided clear and convincing explanations to regulators.
