Greg Medcraft is currently Chair of Australian Finance Group Ltd a leading listed financial services group in Australia providing residential finance, vehicle finance, commercial finance, mortgage broking and, aggregation and securitisation services, a non-executive Director of Thinktank Pty Ltd a Private Australian group providing commercial, residential and SMSF finance and Chair of the Advisory Board of Global Digital Finance, a global market standards and education industry group. He also acts as Senior Board adviser to Infraclear Inc, a Washington based infratech startup.
Greg has extensive experience working in financial markets and services, from a policy, regulatory and industry perspective.
- In policy, Director of the OECD from 2017 to 2021 overseeing OECD’s policy and standard setting work in the fields of markets and business conduct, including digital and sustainable finance. Greg established the OECD Blockchain policy research centre and annual forum and was a member of the Financial Stability Board’s taskforce, reporting and making recommendations on issues and regulatory approaches to global stablecoins. He also was a member of World Economic Forum’s Blockchain and Digital Assets group’s work on DeFi policy.
- In regulation, from 2009 to 2017, he was initially a Commissioner and later the Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia’s corporate, markets, financial services and credit regulator. At ASIC, he established the Fintech Innovation Hub and Fintech sandbox. While ASIC Chairman, Greg was also, for three years until May 2016, Chair of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Board and a member of the Financial Stability Board. He was also a member of the IMF High Level Advisory Group on Fintech.
- In industry, initially with accounting firm KPMG then nearly 3 decades in investment banking with Société Générale in Australia, Asia, Europe and the Americas and then as CEO of the industry group, the Australian Securitisation Forum. At Société Générale, he initially worked on corporate finance, then capital markets. When he was based in New York, Greg co-founded the industry group, the American Securitization Forum, and was its Chairman for a number of years.
Greg, an Australian national, holds an Honorary Doctorate of Business from RMIT University, Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.