Bill Specht
Financial Software Architect
Currenex Inc.
FPL Global Foreign Exchange Committee Co-Chair

Bill Specht has been the Financial Software Architect at Currenex Inc. since the company's founding in 2000. After receiving a PhD in mathematics from University of Chicago he was a professor of Mathematics Roosevelt University in Chicago before moving on to working with financial systems. He developed a range of financial systems and was involved in process engineering activities for Citibank, Barclays Global Investors, Misys and Currenex. An active participant in many of the current process standards for FX processing, he is the designer of the TWIST FX schema, is co-chair of the Wholesale Trade Working Group in TWIST and member of the F/X working groups of FpML and FPL since their inception.