2017 Federal Identity Forum & Homeland Security

Jay Collins
Vice Chairman
Citi


Jay Collins has covered governments his entire career. He currently covers governments as diverse and complex as the U.S. government and Greece, as well as Emerging Market governments, such as the Philippines and Brazil. Jay has responsibility for driving content, innovation and replicable solutions across Citi’s sovereign, supranational and local government client base. He has advised 46 different governments on privatizations, liability management and funding solutions, derivatives, and electronic banking services, including mobile finance and card solutions. Jay is currently working with Citi’s government clients to (1) implement commodity, rates and fx risk mitigation techniques (2) reduce paper and cash processes (3) develop new and innovative funding strategies, including liability management (4) monetize state assets (5) utilize mobile financial solutions to improve financial inclusion and (6) enhance emergency financial preparedness. Jay was Global Head of Citi’s Public Sector Group from 2005-2011 where he had day to day management responsibility for Citi’s relationships with central banks, finance ministries, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, ministries of health, education, defense, social security systems, cities and other government and quasi-government agencies. From 2006-2007, Jay was also Global Head of Infrastructure for Citi. From 2001- 2005, Jay was Head of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) for Global Banking at Citi. His responsibilities included managing the coverage effort for Investment Banking, Emerging Markets Corporate Banking, and Global Relationship Banking in the region. Prior to becoming a banker, Jay worked in Washington D.C., where he ran Government Relations for CSIS, the largest international think tank in the U.S., and later served as President of the G7 Council, a non-profit shadow G7 group of former Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors and economists.

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