Nate Wuerffel

Nate Wuerffel is the Global Head of Market Structure and Head of Product for the Global Collateral Platform at BNY.  In this capacity, he is responsible for the development of products and services for BNY’s global collateral platform, which supports liquidity and financing for more than $7T in assets, including U.S. Triparty repo.  He is also responsible for BNY’s continued leadership in all aspects of market structure, including public-private efforts to improve financial market resiliency, navigating market structure changes especially in the U.S. Treasury market.

Mr. Wuerffel was previously the head of Domestic Markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he was responsible for carrying out monetary policy trading operations in the Treasury, agency MBS and money markets, including the design and implementation of a range of facilities and trading operations such as quantitative easing and tightening programs, the Standing Repo Facility and other balance sheet actions aimed at fostering U.S. economic growth and financial market functioning.

Mr. Wuerffel has led a variety of efforts across the public and private sectors to strengthen the U.S. Treasury market.  He was responsible for developing the annual Inter-Agency conference on the Treasury market hosted by the NY Fed and oversaw the NY Fed’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG).  Mr. Wuerffel led the New York Fed’s efforts to support the transition away from USD LIBOR and was responsible for the Alternative Reference Rate Committee (ARRC).  His public remarks cover topics such as government securities market liquidity and structure, Treasury market resiliency, central clearing and the LIBOR transition.  He currently sits on the TMPG, the Advisory Council for the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation and the Volatility and Risk Institute Advisory Board of New York University Stern School of Business.

Mr. Wuerffel holds a bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University and a master’s degree from University of Chicago.