Donovan Whitter Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Vice President of Fixed Income Operations Mortgage, Corporate, Rates & Credit for Santander US Capital Markets

Greater New York City Area

• Operations SME for Agency Passthrough desk, responsible for daily reconciliation and publishing of P&L
• Manage operational client relationships as point of contact for institutional clients transacting with our sales desk on pre and post execution on lifecycle of trades
• Collaborate with portions of the business to maintain, develop, and improve current processes
• Oversee submission and booking of treasury auction bids for rates sales and house primary dealer obligation

Greater New York City Area

• Managed and optimized mortgage pool inventory for MBS trading desk to ensure proper segregation and optimal allocation and notification of pool information to sell side TBA trades
• Monitored current & future positions, future settling trades, shortfalls and fails, providing coverage for all RMBS securities to the trading desk and sales desk
• Managed and settled collateral relating to structured product trades (Fannie Mae – Mega’s, Freddie Mac – Giants, Ginnie Mae - Platinum’s and REMICs)

Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for allocations of MBS pools into TBA and pair-offs for New York trading desk for all settlement classes including off-settlement allocations
• Responsible for confirmation, reconciliation and resolution of MBS TBA & Pool positions breaks across Broadridge Impact System, MBS Expert, Bloomberg and FICC
• Ensured settlement of corporate and government bond trades through updating incorrect trade details, updating of client settlement instructions, creation of manual wires and confirmation of corporate bond trade details.

New York City

Fixed Income Operations analyst providing trade support for corporate and government bond settlement for New York trading desk. Activities included, confirmation of trade details with counter-party, ensuring up-to-date client delivery instructions and addressing incorrect trade details. Responsible for daily trade reconciliation between New York and London.

New York, New York

• Fixed Income product specialist providing customized solutions in real time involving financial models, market news/data and communication for financial professionals using the Bloomberg Professional Service
• Covered credit and interest rate derivatives, yield, and spread analysis, and credit and equity analysis functionality within Bloomberg Professional Service

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120 Park Ave

• Conducted research on dark pool to identify links between pricing structures and venue performance/liquidity
• Identified and reconciled inconsistencies in client data for migration to new system

Manhattan, New York

• Created a guide for use in internal quarterly financial reporting for Strategic Risk Analysis team
• Designed a social media strategy to promote large scale adoption and cross-departmental collaboration which was presented to executive management

• Served as tent counselor to a tent family of 3 children.
• Taught kayaking, canoeing and row-boating safety and skills to children between the ages of 7 and 14.The Aloha Foundation operates summer overnight camps for girls, boys and families, a summer day camp, and a.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Applied Economics And Management

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma KappaExecutive Board Member for Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity Behavioral Economics Undergraduate.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Disciplinary Committee, Student Leadership Counsel, AP Scholar, Founders Award WinnerStudent Leadership Counsel.