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London, United Kingdom

Our team serves to deliver appropriate, flexible and efficient hedging solutions into the private capital sector.Working alongside Investec's Fund Solutions lending team, our deep in-house industry knowledge allows us to provide bespoke solutions that understand and address the nuanced requirements of the sector at fund, manager and investor level.Combining derivative product capability with sector-specific credit expertise, this allows us to explore security structures that can support credit-intensive hedging strategies. We aim to mitigate the inherent inefficiencies for funds within traditional cash collateral models, and provide flexibility where exit timings and values aren’t always clear.

London, United Kingdom

Assist corporate clients in managing exposures to fluctuations in wholesale commodity prices.Application across a wide range of industries that includes manufacturers, mineral producers, transport companies, logistics/ distribution providers, marine/ aviation operators and many more.Product coverage spans the Energies and Base Metals spectrum.

London, United Kingdom

Transaction of hedging instruments designed to reduce financial exposure to a range of commodity prices.Product coverage includes:Energies (e.g. Gasoil, Diesel, Jet Fuel)Base Metals (e.g. Aluminium, Copper, Lead)Agriculturals (e.g. Wheat, Cotton, Sugar)Client base includes Corporate & SME level.

Leeds & South Midlands

Within NAB’s UK Wholesale operations, Treasury Solutions serves to provide risk management services for corporate and business clients of the Clydesdale & Yorkshire Bank franchises, within the FX, interest rate and commodity product arenas. Key responsibilities included the structuring, negotiation and transaction of interest rate derivatives to the Bank’s business & corporate level borrowers (which may involve restructures of existing trades), the relationship management and growth of the FX portfolio within the region, and a growing emphasis on marketing the Bank’s commodity hedging capabilities to the local market.

Manchester, United Kingdom

This short-term contract position was to help to progress the wave of complaints made by customers against overdraft fees charged by high street banks. CIS had a large backlog of data on outstanding complaints that required validating according to internal and FSA procedures, my role being to assist in this process.