Dino Kos

Dino Kos joined CLS Bank International as head of regulatory affairs in February 2013. He has more than 25 years of industry and regulatory experience, including over 20 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) in a variety of regulatory and market capacities.

During his time at the FRBNY, Dino rose to the position of executive vice president of the markets group, where he was responsible for open market operations, foreign exchange trading, treasury auctions, the discount window and the correspondent banking services provided by the FRBNY to other central banks.

He was also manager of the system open market account, reporting to the Federal Open Market Committee on the implementation of monetary policy and market developments. Dino also represented the FRBNY at numerous international meetings, including meetings of G10 central banks at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee and the Foreign Exchange Committee.

As the FRBNY’s head of foreign exchange from 1993 to 2000, Dino was responsible for the planning and execution of foreign exchange policies, leading coordination between officials at the US Treasury and many of the world’s central banks and foreign finance ministries. He was seconded to the BIS in Basel, Switzerland, from 1989 to 1991 in the Secretariat of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, where he worked on the development of a capital adequacy standard for market risk.

Most recently, Dino co-founded Hamiltonian Associates, a specialized macro advisory research firm. Prior to this he was a managing director at Portales Partners, where his role included analysis of global macro trends for institutional clients with a focus on monetary policy, regulatory developments, financial institutions, currencies and fixed income. He previously held roles at Morgan Stanley Investment Management as managing director, global head of central banks and sovereign wealth funds.