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Callum Watling Senior Consultant

Callum is a member of Oxera’s Competition, Regulation & Market Design and Financial Services teams. Prior to joining Oxera in 2018, he worked at Ipsos MORI, a global market research firm. Here, he specialised in customer research for the financial services sector, advising a range of multinational firms on their global customer research programmes.

Callum holds a Masters degree in Economics from University College London, where his curriculum focused on game theory, econometrics and industrial organisation; and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.

Callum speaks English.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6627

Callum's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Economic advice to the arbitration tribunal in respect of the dispute between Standard Life Aberdeen and Lloyds Banking Group (2018–19)

  • Economic analysis of the design of equity trading markets in Europe for the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (2018–19)

Qualifications

  • MSc Economics, University College London, UK

  • BA Economics and Management, University of Oxford, UK

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Fragmentation, competition and the EU CSD landscape

There is growing attention from policymakers on the design and functioning of the market for central securities depository (CSD) services in the EU.1 This is an important debate with implications…
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Depiction of Digital securities and English law: the gold standard?

Digital securities and English law: the gold standard?

The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (‘UKJT’), part of LawtechUK, has produced a Legal Statement on how English law supports the use of distributed ledger technology in equity and bond markets (also…
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Depiction of Shining the light: the merits of on- vs off-exchange trading

Shining the light: the merits of on- vs off-exchange trading

Many financial assets trade away from exchanges in over-the-counter (OTC) markets. The academic literature has highlighted the value of both the OTC and exchange trading models but also notes some…
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Depiction of A tale of two cities: the rise and fall of listings

A tale of two cities: the rise and fall of listings

The decline in European public equity markets has sparked concern from policymakers about how to revive listings. Behind this overall declining trend, there is a notable variation between financial centres.…

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