TBMA hires new staff advisor

Robert Toomeywas appointed the principal staff advisor to The Bond Market Association's Funding Division. Toomey, also named vice president and assistant general counsel, reports to Eric L. Foster, managing staff advisor for TBMA's global rates and funding group. Most recently, Toomey was counsel and assistant vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he negotiated, structured and implemented the bank's markets group programs in tri-party repo and options on repo, among other responsibilities.