Mr Blandford has worked within the financial industry for over 30 years with a majority of this time spent within asset servicing at several custodians and asset managers, of which the past seven years have been spent at JPMorgan Asset Management heading up the middle office corporate action team. Through my roles I have covered all aspects of corporate actions across all instrument types and regions and the challenges these have raised. I actively participate in the SWIFT UK/IE NMPG and the Investment Manager COAC forum, these groups provide the opportunity to review, harmonise and enhance processes form issuer to end client and all touch points in-between.