Peter Norman is a London-based journalist and writer and DTCC-CSFI Post-Trade Fellow. "The Risk Controllers: Central Counterparty Clearing in Globalised Financial Markets" is his second book explaining the workings and history of an important financial infrastructure. "Plumbers and Visionaries: Securities Settlement and Europe's Financial Market," his path-breaking account of the history and prospects of the securities settlement industry in Europe, was published by John Wiley & Sons in December 2007.