Nehal Udeshi is Head of Securities Finance at Bank of New York Mellon within the Markets Division.

Nehal Udeshi is Head of Securities Finance at Bank of New York Mellon within the Markets Division.

Securities Finance includes Agency Securities Lending program and the Principal related activities including FICC’s Cleared Repo, Secured Loan Portfolio and the prime brokerage proxy Borrow+ which facilitates alternative managers borrowing securities. Nehal has global responsibilities for the agency and principal businesses and provides strategic direction for securities lending functions including trading, cash collateral investment, sales, relationship management and business development.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon in 2023, Nehal spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs in New York and London in a range of roles, including most recently co-heading Global Cross Asset Financing within Global Markets and Banking. In this role she partnered with Fixed Income, Equities, Prime Brokerage and Corporate Treasury to originate innovative solutions for liquidity and capital resource optimization for the firm’s liabilities and distributed these solutions to a breadth of institutional clients. During her tenure at the firm, she also had responsibilities in equity structuring and started her career in foreign exchange trading.

Nehal holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mathematics from Imperial College London. She serves on the board of trustees for Stevens Cooperative School, New Jersey.