Six years making markets in European equity index derivatives at Deutsche Bank, then founding OTCex’s Sub-Saharan Africa fixed income business from a blank sheet: onboarding banks, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, and building a multi-million dollar revenue franchise.

The second half of the career was spent inside the machinery of global banking: the Brexit entity build-out at Citi, front office controls at Credit Suisse, and a $30m markets and treasury change portfolio at Bank of America, including an enterprise collateral optimisation programme.

FinHedge Advisory exists because desk-level pricing instinct, institutional governance experience and an international client network built over twenty years are normally bought from three different places, or from the bank on the other side of the trade.

The record

Where the experience comes from.

  • 2018 to present

    Strategy, Change and Transformation, EMEA Lead

    Bank of America, Global Markets and Operations, London

    A $30m portfolio of markets and treasury change across EMEA. Enterprise collateral optimisation across business lines and legal entities, reducing funding cost and improving liquidity utilisation. Migration of the collateral workflow engine to a single platform with straight-through processing. Real-time payments screening delivered against EU regulation.

  • 2018

    Front Office Regulatory Reform

    Citigroup, London

    The Brexit build-out of new EEA investment firms. Client onboarding and repapering at scale: KYC, AML, MiFID consent, data migration, terms of business, ISDA, GMRA and GMSLA, FATCA and CRS, credit and traded risk set-up.

  • 2017

    Front Office Risk and Controls, COO

    Credit Suisse, London

    A control-by-control review of the front office supervisory framework, cutting active risk controls by 25% while strengthening real coverage. Introduced data-led trade surveillance using metadata tagging to identify cancels and corrects, late bookings and internal trade anomalies.

  • 2008 to 2017

    Head of Sub-Saharan Africa Fixed Income; Co-Head and COO, Index Derivatives

    OTCex Group, London

    Founded the firm’s Sub-Saharan Africa franchise from a blank sheet: wrote the business case, built the product mix across T-bills, Eurobonds, local currency debt, forwards, swaps and NDFs, and personally onboarded banks, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Multi-million dollar annual revenue. Later co-headed the European index derivatives business with a team of ten to twelve brokers.

  • 2002 to 2008

    Equity Derivatives Flow Trader

    Deutsche Bank, London

    Market making, client pricing and risk management across the CAC 40, SMI, FTSE, EuroStoxx and DAX. Hedging strategy with Sales, Risk and Trading, within internal risk limits, with consistent P&L production.

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