As part of its strategic plan, the AMF is changing its organisation and expanding its activities for operational monitoring of market organisation, post-trading and players.
The following changes have been made to the structure of its activities:
- creation of a new entity for market monitoring and surveillance, infrastructure and players. It will be part of the Asset Management and Markets Division (DGAM), the new name for the current Investment Services and Asset Management Division.
- merger of investigations and inspections into the same division with the creation of the Investigation and Inspection Division, which replaces the Investigation and Market Surveillance Division (DESM).
Sophie Baranger has been named managing director of the new Investigation and Inspection Division (DEC). A graduate of the Ecole supérieure de commerce et d’administration des entreprises (ESCAE) in Amiens and holder of an advanced certificate in general management from HEC Paris and a chartered accountant diploma, Sophie Baranger joined the Commission des opérations de bourse in November 2000 as deputy head of the accounting affairs department after spending nine years at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the fields of auditing and accounting policy. She was appointed director of the AMF’s Corporate Accounting and Auditing Division in November 2006 and director of the Investigation and Market Surveillance Division on 1 January 2011.
Arnaud Oseredczuk has been named managing director of the Asset Management and Markets Division. After earning degrees from the Ecole des Mines and IEP in Paris, Arnaud Oseredczuk was appointed judge to the Cour des Comptes upon graduation from ENA in 2000. After working with the managing director of the AMF’s Regulatory Policy and International Affairs Division in 2005, he was named managing director of the Asset Management Regulatory Policy Department in the same division in 2007. InNovember 2008, he took over as head of the Market Surveillance Department of DESM. These appointments become effective on 1 April and the new organisation will be implemented gradually.