Richard Haynes is the Acting Director of the Division of Clearing and Risk at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Mr. Haynes manages a team of approximately 80 employees in the CFTC’s Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York offices who are responsible for the agency’s supervision of derivatives clearinghouses and their members, including oversight of clearing processes through risk assessment and surveillance.
Mr. Haynes has served as the Deputy Director of the CFTC’s Risk Surveillance Branch since the summer of 2021. While in that role, he has focused on monitoring the systemic risk of cleared derivatives, including analysis published in the most recent Supervisory Stress Test Report; helping develop updated international policy recommendations for transparency in margined markets; and developing sophisticated tools and interactive dashboards for cleared derivatives oversight. In prior CFTC roles, he co-authored multiple papers analyzing the intersection of market structure and regulatory policy, including those published in the Journal of Futures Markets, the Journal of Commodity Markets, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has been at the CFTC for 10 years.
Prior to the CFTC, Mr. Haynes worked as a trader and quant in New York and Hong Kong.
He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago.
Education
- PhD, University of Chicago
