Scott C. Kursman

Scott C. Kursman is the Chief Compliance Officer for IntelligentCross, a leading equities trading venue. Prior to joining IntelligentCross in 2024, Scott was a Managing Director at Citigroup for 15 years, most recently as the Chief Compliance Officer for Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and the Citibank N.A., Swap Dealer. Before joining Citi, Scott was Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for Global Compliance at Lehman Brothers, Director at Barclays Capital and Vice President/Associate General Counsel for the Securities Industry Association (now SIFMA) where he advised member firms and advocated for regulatory changes in the area of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, technology and regulation, equity and options trading and general compliance and supervision. Scott began his legal career at the Securities and Exchange Commission as an attorney-adviser in the Division of Market Regulation (now Trading and Markets), working on marketplace rules for the government bond, municipal bond, equity and options markets.
An active industry participant and frequent conference speaker, Scott currently serves as President of SIFMA’s Compliance & Legal Society and previously served terms on FINRA’s National Adjudicatory Council and Large Firm Advisory Committee. Scott is a graduate of Tufts University and Boston University School of Law, is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations and holds FINRA Series 7, 14, 24 and 65 licenses.