Joe Mc Hale is Head of EU regulatory affairs at Bloomberg where he is responsible for analysing and responding to financial services reforms impacting Bloomberg and its clients, such market structure, transparency, investor protection and prudential measures.

Prior to Bloomberg, Joe worked for Deutsche Bank in London and headed the capital markets team in the Government and Regulatory Affairs Department. His team was responsible for the group’s advocacy towards policy-makers as well as support to Senior Management, Legal and Compliance on the assessment and implementation of new EU financial services requirements.

Prior to Deutsche, Joe spent six years working in Brussels; first as a regulatory consultant for clients on EU legislation such as MIFID and then as a policy expert at the European Banking Federation where he advocated on EU financial markets legislation adopted in the wake of the financial crisis.