Varun Pawar

Chief Product Officer ICE

Varun Pawar is the Chief Product Officer at ICE's Fixed Income and Data Services (NYSE: ICE). Based in New York, Pawar oversees product development and innovation across entity data, security master data, evaluated pricing across bonds and derivatives, indices, analytics, private credit and data operations globally. From June 2021 to December 2023, Pawar headed ICE Data Indices overseeing product development, business strategy and operations globally.

Prior to being responsible for ICE's index business, Pawar headed up quantitative teams at ICE Fixed Income and Data Services focused on improving precision of bond evaluation products and developing new products using a combination of proprietary data, technology, and human capital.

Pawar joined ICE in September 2019 after spending 12 years at Bloomberg developing their fixed income evaluated pricing business, BVAL. Pawar headed the BVAL business globally from 2015 to 2019. Born and raised in Bangalore India, he earned his bachelor's degree in finance and accounting from Bangalore University and master's degree in finance and management from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

Day 1 | 4th November

11:40 AM In Conversation with… Standardising Credit Data Infrastructures: How can you build a data standardization strategy to improve transferability, settlement efficiency and market transparency across private credit markets?

Operational inefficiencies, fragmented reporting standards and inconsistent loan data continue to create friction across private credit markets, limiting transferability and slowing settlement processes. As private credit scales and becomes more institutionalised, firms are facing increasing pressure to modernise the infrastructure supporting asset servicing, data sharing and transaction workflows across the ecosystem. 

This session will examine how partnerships between asset managers, market infrastructure providers and technology platforms are helping drive greater data standardisation across private credit markets. John Maggiacomo will discuss how standardised data frameworks can support more seamless transfer and settlement processes, improve operational interoperability and create the foundation for more accurate pricing mechanisms and greater liquidity across private assets. 

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Varun Pawar

Day 1 | 4th November

11:40 AM In Conversation with… Standardising Credit Data Infrastructures: How can you build a data standardization strategy to improve transferability, settlement efficiency and market transparency across private credit markets?

11:40 AM In Conversation with… Standardising Credit Data Infrastructures: How can you build a data standardization strategy to improve transferability, settlement efficiency and market transparency across private credit markets?