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Education
- College of Engineering, Guindy, BS
- University of Maryland, MS, Computer Systems Management
- University of Maryland, MBA, Finance
Areas of Expertise
- Trade and Swap Data Reporting
- Compliance and Control Testing and Reporting (CFTC, SEC, state)
- Regulatory Remediation, Response and Reporting
- Trading and Clearing Technology Modernization and Implementation
- Data Strategies for Trading and Risk Management
Rajesh Virassamy
Biography
Rajesh Virassamy is a senior regulatory leader with more than 15 years’ experience across the CFTC and SEC, serving as Senior Swap Consultant/SME at both agencies. He has deep expertise in swap regulation, reporting frameworks, and derivatives surveillance across all asset classes and major swap data repositories, and substantial experience conducting forensic data analysis to support enforcement actions, sanctions compliance, and regulatory examinations.
At the SEC, Rajesh was Swap Surveillance Program Consultant in the Division of Examination. Among his responsibilities in this role, he designed and implemented forensic surveillance models for equity swaps and total return swaps; integrated equity order book data with swap positions to detect cross-market manipulation and disruptive trading patterns; led the initiative to ensure timeliness, consistency, completeness, and accuracy dimensions are followed in the swap data submission to the Commission; and analyzed CDS auction reporting data to assess settlement integrity and investigated "manufactured default" scenarios to detect opportunistic credit event triggers.
Prior to that role, Rajesh was Senior Swap Consultant with the CFTC. There, among other duties, he led a cross-divisional rollout of the CFTC 2.0 specification across five asset classes (interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, FX, equities, and commodities), enabling consistent and accurate swap reporting; led technical analysis for the LIBOR-to-SOFR transition, evaluating the impact on interest rate swap IRS valuations across legacy portfolios; analyzed large-scale datasets to detect potential benchmark rigging and disruptive trading practices, providing critical evidence for enforcement actions; built exposure reports and tracking solutions for the CFTC chairman, covering exposures across products, counterparties, currencies, and tenors; and directed the cross-divisional rollout of the CFTC 2.0 specification for IRS, CDS, FX, and commodities to ensure accurate regulatory reporting.