Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Professional Interests/Skills/Knowledge - Fintech, Trading, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Risk Management, Multi Asset Derivative Products SME, Business Analysis, Consultancy. - Equity Derivative Volatility, Exotics and Delta 1 Trading, market making and client management across global underlying's. Index and single stock. - Client acquisition internal to firms/inter division (One firm) and external across regions. - Product marketing, Business Development and Providing sophisticated client solutions. - Trading infrastructure and development. Efficient application/utilisation of systems to provide risk management improvements and lower costs. - Derivative and Fixed Income business/Sales development/Commercial propositions, content and negotiation. Innovation and Market Infrastructure. (Listed and OTC)
Manage OTC Derivative Sales and Business Development with responsibility for major global enterprise accounts. Complex Data across all asset classes, Pricing and Analytic Systems and Valuations. Further responsibility for Ice Data Analytics: Fixed Income Analytics covering portfolio risk management and analytics engines for use within Algorithmic Trading. Responsible for commercial structuring, propositions and negotiating deals including contractual terms.
Emerging Markets product development and analysis. Structured products and vanilla equity derivatives sales.
Structured Equity Derivatives Group - Built coverage of markets/underlying's globally strengthening Investec's position as #1 UK Retail Structured Products House. - Managed flow trading, market making, proprietary risk management and hedging on major global and less liquid indices. - Pricing of single stock baskets and illiquid single names. - Conceived and managed the administrative, marketing, sales and trading structure to service non UK clientbase. Provided structured solutions for clients. - Designed and proposed in house trading system. The system is live. - Proposed and successfully led significant initiatives to change the operational structure of the business.
Market making and proprietary Index derivative volatility trading facing institutional and corporate clients. Coverage of pan European indices, UK, US, Asian and Emerging Market indices with primary responsibility for Eurostoxx. Offering light exotic, structured products and variance swaps on single indices across all maturities. Responsibilities included working closely with sales force and extending our product coverage to the banks client base. Testing of new RFQ and parameterisation systems
Market making and proprietary trading on pan European, UK, US, Asian and Emerging Market Indices. Facing a global client base across retail, institutional, hedge fund and corporate sectors providing vanilla, exotic and structured solutions across all maturities. - Responsibility for running the desk during RBS's takeover.