I was an Executive Director on the Non-Agency/Whole Loan trading desk at Nomura Securities. My main focus tends to be newly originated whole loans in the Non-QM, RTL and SBC sectors. I have executed three rated and broadly syndicated securitizations with collateral aggregated by our desk. Prior to focusing solely on our new origination platform I also focused on CRT, Legacy RMBS, RMBS 2.0, and NPL/RPL Loans.

In my role as an undergraduate teaching assistant, I help to clarify financial topics which include but are not limited to, bond pricing, recapitalization, and building financial models.

During my time in Nomura's Global Markets Summer Analyst Program, I rotated through the securitized products trading desk, the emerging markets flow credit desk - both sales and trading, and finally the rates desk - also both sales and trading. Notably, during my first rotation in securitized products, I built an application using SQL and VBA which allows a user to load in a series of loans from various originators and subsequently analyze the data against the mean and median of various statistical levels.

Over the course of my twelve week internship I took on several projects which ranged from identifying under-serviced and/or completely unserviced contractors for the sales team, to performing physical inventory checks and preparing variance reports. In addition, I also spent time working in the back end of the firm, working in departments as varied as returns, shipping, supply chain and purchasing.