Natalie Soltau
About Natalie Soltau
Natalie Soltau is a Senior Business Operations Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, specializing in post-trade operations for the securities lending program. She has a background in business processing and has held various student assistant positions in New York State government agencies.
Current Role at Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Natalie Soltau serves as a Senior Business Operations Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a position she has held since 2018. In this role, she manages post-trade operations for the securities lending program, facilitating transactions between primary dealers and the Federal Reserve Bank. Her responsibilities include determining funding activity for mortgage-backed security accounts at custodian banks and performing settlement operations for tri-party repo and reverse repo transactions. She also addresses inquiries from foreign central banks and processes monthly principal and interest payments for securities held in foreign accounts.
Previous Experience in Government Roles
Before her current position, Natalie Soltau gained valuable experience in various government roles. She worked as a Business Processing Unit Student Assistant at the NYS Office of Information Technology Services for five months in 2017-2018. Additionally, she served as a Labor Relations Unit Student Assistant at the New York State Division of the Budget for three months in 2017. Her experience also includes two stints as a Student Assistant at the Office of the New York State Comptroller, one in 2016 and another in 2017, each lasting three months.
Education and Specialization
Natalie Soltau earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the University at Albany, SUNY, where she studied Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity with a concentration in Cybersecurity. Her academic tenure spanned from 2014 to 2018, during which she developed a strong foundation in her field of expertise.
Technical Skills and Operations Management
In her current role, Natalie specializes in collateralizing trades using pledged Treasury securities and processing substitutions and extensions for dealers. She frequently tests and analyzes new Excel tools and internal systems to ensure quality assurance and operational readiness. Her work includes creating and analyzing margin calls for funding wires in the agency mortgage-backed security market, ensuring the accurate receipt and acknowledgment of funds.