Ashley Garvin Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Financial Risk Advisory: In charge of building MUFG’s holistic risk advisory offering to the top tier clients in EMEA.Client facing role with c.60-100 client meetings a year across Europe, US and Singapore.Worked on the structuring, pricing and marketing of complex deals including: FX deal contingents, project finance and various options strategies (compounds etc).Rebuilt the global risk advisory engine (FX & Rates) as part of a cloud-based innovation platform tools. Built the template and model library for typical risk management problems for sales.Developed sector and market thematic on a regular basis.Worked extensively on coordinating the branding across pitch books, emails & internal communications to strengthen brand recognitionStructuring & Private Side Examples:Restructured client portfolios to free up cash on the back of Covid related stress. Generating significant hard revenue, releasing CVA, freeing credit lines & significantly improving RORAs.Coordinated lead for the pricing, execution and documentation of a $1bn+ hold in a Deal Contingent ForwardsFX Financial Advisor for a number of the largest Renewable energy Project Finance deals (FX exposures c.$2bn to $6bn) [bid advisory, pre-hedging, hedge coordination, hedge execution & novation management].Created an AI based FX liquidity tool in collaboration with Mosaic Smart Data and CLS in response to Covid-19 (https://mosaicsmartdata.com/fxliquidity/home/).Designed a number of short animated videos to cover topics such as Deal Contingents, FX in M&A and High Carry Currency Programming: Building tools in Python, VBA, Excel to analyse the financial markets and add quantitative analysis to our client engagements. Built and deployed a cloud-based Monte Carlo engine (GBM, jump diffusion, mean reversion etc.) for simulating FX/Rates/Commodities and optimising hedging (multi core python program in AWS with mongoDB). Generated value/timing dashboards and indicators to aid in the hedging decisions.

London, United Kingdom

• Experienced in delivering strategic risk advisory across the global corporate, mid-market and financial institutions client base• Presented to key decision makers (CEO, CFO, FD, group treasurer) on a range of topics including risk policy creating, asset & liability management and project related risk assessments (bid-tender, M&A etc.)• Cross asset expertise (FX, rates, commodity, inflation)• Skilled in designing and developing bespoke financial models (Monte Carlo, strategy back testing, risk analysis etc.) • Responsible for identifying key strategic topics, sectors themes and financial market trends, in order to enhance the client conversations

London, United Kingdom

Part of a team that actively managed the banks foreign exchange translation risk. Role included:- The back testing of mid-frequency alpha generating strategies across G10 and liquid EM currencies crosses- Producing internal and client focuses FX research- Trading spot FX on a discretionary basis across economic data releases- Ensuring the daily running and execution of our $500m trading model- Managing the associated risks across FX spot, forwards, swaps and options

Oxford Fintech Programme

Postgraduate Research, Physics

Activities and Societies: British Universities Judo medalist Postgraduate research (1st year PhD) - Computational Quantum Physics.

Msci, Physics