Danielle Gerace

Based in Sydney, Danielle Gerace heads Product for Capital Markets at Northern Trust and has global responsibility for the strategy and solution development for the capital markets product suite including brokerage, transition management, foreign exchange and securities finance.

Experience

Previously at Northern Trust, Danielle was Head of Market Advocacy & Innovation Research for Asia Pacific (APAC), leading several live market digital asset and service solutions. 

Prior to Northern Trust, Danielle was the general manager for the Australian Securities Exchange’s Clearing services where she led product and service innovation and was responsible for the market-wide move to T+2 settlements. Danielle also held several senior roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas where she ran business and relationship management in international prime brokerage and correspondent clearing. 

With a strong focus on commercial strategy, emerging technology and innovation, Danielle has over 20 years’ experience within the financial services industry. This includes expertise in global and regulated market businesses, managing capital and risk, and market infrastructure sectors delivering securities financing and post-trade services to large and complex clients across APAC and Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Danielle currently Chairs the Australian Custodial Services Association Digital Asset Taskforce and supports digital and crypto asset advocacy.

Education

Danielle holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) Degree from the University of Sydney.