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Thomson Reuters Markets Dubai - Johannesburg
- Fixed Income, FX & Money Mkts Specialist
2010 - maintenant
• Primary point of contact of ThomsonReuters customers on Foreign Exchange and Money Markets: trading and Investments applications.
• Banks, Central banks, Asset managers, Hedge Funds, Corporate…
• Ensured client retention and growth for Thomson Reuters Products, worked on pitch presentations that resulted in a number of new relationships.
• CRM, advisory, managed current and potential customers.
• Proactively designed, delivered workshops and events for customers focusing on FX / MM / Fixed Income topics; more than 20 countries covered.
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FTSE Group - London
- Senior FIxed Income & Derivatives Analyst
2007 - 2010
• Alternative Assets and Fixed Income Index Team.
• Pricing, valuation of fixed Income and synthetic products to calculate live & close of business prices.
• Global Bonds, Synthetic products, Gilts, Commercial property Index, Hedge Fund Index, IR Swaps / MTIR Swaps.
• Worked on projects to launch new Indices such as: Commodity Index, Constant Maturity Swaps (CMS) Index …
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Deutsche Bank - London
- 2nd Trader & Market Maker
2006 - maintenant
• Synthetic derivatives products, Alternative Trading desk, Secondary Market Making desk.
• Pricing, valuation of synthetic products to calculate initial fair price.
• Encompassed all aspects of market-making.
• Synthetic products, Equities, Bonds, Commercial Papers, Note, Convertible bonds, Swaps / Equity Swaps, Futures, Exotics options, FX.
• Ensured all new deals are correctly entered into the respective risk.
• Maintenance and update of existing business.
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Lehman Brothers - London
- Structured Credit Trading Desk
2005 - maintenant
• Emerging Markets Credit Derivatives Prop-Trading Desk. Credit Default Swaps, Cash, Options, Swaps, Interest Rate Swaps, Total return Swaps, Credit Flow products and Foreign exchange market.
• Pricing Desk Assistant on the Emerging Markets side (Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, South Africa etc…)
• Economic data research using bloomberg. Liaised with other trading desk and sales People
• Maintenance and update of existing business.
• Trading desk positions based on discretionary approach, used technical and fundamental analytical views, economic risk hedging and market perception and disciplined risk taker.
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Saxon Financials - London
- Fixed Income Trader - Graduate Program
2004 - 2005
• European and American bonds desk. Monitored futures trading positions. Responsible for the prop-trading positions on behalf of the company.
• Captured and booked any hedge positions on behalf of Senior Traders.
• Economic data research using bloomberg.
• Designed and executed hedging strategies using combination, spreads and arbitrages.
• Market-Maker assistant for the EurexUS exchange, yield curve trading.
