PATRICK S. COLLINS has over thirty years' experience in domestic and foreign financial markets. He has worked in the financial futures markets and was a senior officer of securities companies in London, New York, and Hong Kong. In addition, he has been a financial markets consultant, advising banks, broker-dealers, exchanges, settlement facilities, and securities regulators in Argentina, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.