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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Regional sales and business development of our multi-channel e-trading and inventory solutions for global Fixed Income & Currency transactions. Leveraging Deutsche Bank's vast experience in OTC electronic platforms to deliver client-focused solutions for a rapidly evolving FIC markets landscape.

Sydney, Australia

Director, Bloomberg Tradebook Australia Pty Ltd, Bloomberg's licensed markets entity in Australia. Expanded use of Bloomberg VCON for voice-assisted Inter-Dealer-Broker (IDB), Dealer-to-Dealer (D2D) and Dealer-to-Client (D2C) workflows across the FI product spectrum, with emphasis on streamlining ticketing and trade capture between disparate firms'​ Order Management Systems. Re-designed Exchange For Physical (EFP) e-trading and VCON workflow on Bloomberg to deliver greater flexibility and workflow efficiencies to participants involved in EFP workflow processes.Ongoing liason with local regulators regarding new products like Bloomberg's Swap Execution Facility (BSEF), Swap Data Repository (BSDR), and our locally-regulated product offerings.Deployment of Bloomberg SEF and clearing house (CCP) interoperability for SEF and off-SEF trading of IRS & CDS products among leading dealer firms, institutional investors and hedge funds.Oversee OTC Derivatives workflow integration into various buy & sell-side OMSs and middleware.Bloomberg's TSOX Execution Management System (EMS) is now the leading EMS in the region for combined e-trading and voice-trade order matching of OTC and exchange-traded FI products.Deployment of Bloomberg's ASIC Trade Reporting solutions among our local institutional clients.Focus on helping our broker, dealer and buy-side clients adapt to the changing market landscape.

Sydney, Australia

Designed and coordinated implementation of the Bloomberg e-Bond platform for the MAS and their Primary Dealers, as part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's engagement in the Asia Bond Market Initiative (ABMI). The platform provides market-wide price-discovery, combining executable limit orders and multi-dealer RFQ capability, along with trade reporting, market analysis tools, firm-wide price-making solutions, integrated trade capture capabilities, and regulatory oversight tools. Successfully tendered with the HKMA for their Electronic Trading Platform (ETP) initiative, and added Inter-Dealer-Broker (IDB) engagement for electronic and voice-assisted limit order communication, display and execution, as well as IDB, inter-dealer and dealer-to-client voice trade confirmation/notification. Submission to the HKICL clearing house for bonds was also included, along with additional market oversight and reporting features for the regulator. Over this period we also deployed the e-Bond platform in conjunction with local market authorities and market participants in many other countries including Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and also the Phillippines, where we were selected as the inter-bank swap platform by the Bankers Association of the Phillippines (BAP). The second-generation e-Bond front-end (FIQ <​go>) is now used for quote display and trading in additional markets, including Australia & New Zealand.During this period I had the opportunity to engage regularly with the various regulators and market authorities with regard to market development, and licensing and development of our FI products.

Sydney, Australia

Ongoing development of our FI trading businesses in Australia & NZ, including ALLQ for multi-dealer e-trading, and deployment of Bloomberg VCON for processing of electronic Voice trade Confirmations. I sold and coordinated implementation of Bloomberg's Bond Auction System with NSW Treasury Corporation and the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), and also took on responsibility for Asia-region dealer liquidity development, and Asia-region product development for our FI trading products. In this capacity I was one of the original proponents for Bloomberg VCON for electronic voice-trade confirmations, and actively involved in winning the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) RFP for an e-trading platform for Singapore Govt Secs.

Sydney, Australia

The early days of FI e-trading. Liason with local regulators re licensing of Bloomberg's various FI trading platforms (Single-Dealer, Multi-Dealer ALLQ & Bloomberg BondTrader, Bond Auction System). Liased with FI dealers re price-making & trade capture systems and setup of institutional clients for price-taking, initially in US Treasuries, European & Australian Govt & Agency bonds. Once we had launched the Bloomberg BondTrader multi-dealer trading platform for liquid global bonds in Australia, we took the same approach with BBT for liquid Govt bonds in Japan, Singapore and the Phillippines. Actively involved in the design and implementation of Exchange For Physical (EFP) trading capabilities on the BBT platform prior to conversion to the FI Trading platform (FIT).

Sydney, Australia

Founding Director of Bloomberg Tradebook Australia Pty Ltd (BTA), Bloomberg's locally regulated entity for transactional products. Sales Manager for the Bloomberg Tradebook product locally. Responsible for offering Agency-only Direct-Market Access (DMA) trade analysis and execution tools to brokers and institutional trading desks.We initially launched locally in 1999 with the Tradebook ECN (Electronic Communications Network) platform for Nasdaq, NYSE and other US exchanges, followed by the addition of non-US equity markets beginning in 2000, and then global futures execution capabilities in 2001. Worked closely with the Australian Stock Exchange under the ASX WorldLink initiative to provide local brokers with direct access to US equities markets execution on a consolidated basis via the Tradebook platform. The goal was to provide a secure and cost-efficient local alternative to the prevailing US-centric internet trading phenomenon, by aggregating order flow to minimise costs, and the benefits of ASX involvement for oversight, registry and settlement purposes.

Sydney, Australia

Helped establish the first local OMS-specific team structure for sales, support and development of Bloomberg's TOMS OMS product for FI dealer firms, and subsequently the POMS OMS product for portfolio managers (later reborn as AIM). Also managed local deployment of Bloomberg's IOI (Indications of Interest) product for communication of institutional equity axes between brokers and clients, and subsequent introduction of Bloomberg's global equity order routing (EOR) network and Execution Management System (EMS) among local equity brokers and institutional clients (now known as EMSX).

Sydney, Australia

Focus on expanding the range of local news and pricing information from exchanges, OTC market participants and news/research sources to further expand Bloomberg's relevance for local markets. This initiative significantly improved Bloomberg's local market coverage in Australia & New Zealand, and resulted in major improvements to the technologies and techniques used to source this data.Established a team to handle the expanding role of this group, which was now engaging in related initiatives including valuation data.Coordinated the Bloomberg side of the AFMA bond and Swap zero curve pricing, and development of the first Australian intraday bond index mechanism in conjunction with ABN Amro Australia.

Sydney, Australia

Client liason regarding product direction, and promotion and training of our more advanced analytics. Participated in initial deployment of our regular seminar training events for new and advanced clients. Product design, sponsorship and representation of key regional product development initiatives. Participated in the establishment of the Bloomberg Analytics Support Desk in Sydney region.

Sydney, Australia

Involved in Bloomberg product sales, training and development for clients in Australia & New Zealand. Designed Bloomberg's first FI & MMKT monitors for local markets, and also helped adapt a range of derivatives analytics for local application. Implemented Bloomberg's TOMS OMS for BZW and subsequently a range of other fixed income dealer firms in Australia.

Sydney, Australia

FI Portfolio Manager focusing on the short end of the yield curve for a diverse group of internal and external institutional clients encompassing money market, repos, futures, short-dated bonds and STIR derivatives. Computerised the existing processes for portfolio management, optimisation and performance measurement, as well as developing a range of relative value and analysis tools. Portfolio outperformance of benchmarks increased consistently during this period.

Sydney, Australia

Fixed Income Dealer for a wide range of internal and external institutional client accounts, covering bonds, repos, futures, options & IRS. Computerised existing paper-based position-management and ticketing processes, and developed analytical programs for generation of trade ideas. Also developed performance measurement programs for the portfolio managers and performed assistant portfolio manager duties. Developed execution strategies for rapid repositioning of portfolio risk at a time when market impact was a major consideration for ourselves and counterparties processing our trades.

Sydney, Australia

Domestic Money Market dealer in STIR products for internal and external institutional client portfolios totalling approx $ 3 Bln. While in the role I developed an application to convert the prior manual portfolio and ticketing processes to computer-based record-keeping and ticket processing.

Sydney, Australia

Trained on a multi-asset class basis to assist and stand in for the Money Market, Fixed Interest and Equity dealers

Sydney, Australia

Back-office operations & processing duties for domestic and international clients, including processing of transaction instructions and settlements duties.