Matthew Romu Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

FIM Partners is a specialist investment manager focused on emerging and frontier markets. The firm’s assets under management are invested on behalf of university endowments, sovereign wealth funds, outsourced CIO’s, and pension plans from North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Our team consists of a diverse and experienced group of investment and non-investment professionals who are based in close proximity to our key markets. Our team has built out a highly successful track record by implementing a disciplined fundamental research approach that underpins our active investment strategy in emerging and frontier markets.FIM Partners is authorised and regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority and registered as an investment advisor with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

United Arab Emirates

• Responsible for Middle Office and operational management of the Capital Market team’s predominantly equity-based and equity-related note portfolio as well as overall P&L maintenance• Running and developing the pre to post-trade processing lifecycle. Tasks include; trade capture, trade processing, liaising with brokers, counterparties and custodians, entity funding, overall cash management and thorough back-to-front trade reconciliation• Additional portfolio related duties include; monitoring various P&L metrics, position and valuation maintenance, management reporting, dividend analysis and monitoring market thresholds• Adapting and adjusting current processes to allow for the entry into new product markets including Equity Swaps and FX Forwards• Responsible for completing the company’s KYC and compliance checks and entity onboarding globally. This task requires a thorough understanding of Legatum’s market aspirations and appetite in order to meet and pre-empt future KYC needs of the business. In addition, pre-trade compliance checks, market disclosure implications and broker account setup, while also working closely with the legal department where necessaryProjects led:• New Trade Capture System Implementation:o Co-managing the implementation of a soon-to-be incorporated trade capture and processing system. The project has required the development of a holistic and challenging test script to ensure all trade processing and trade execution permutations are explored and trialledo Some core project phases include; test script building and parallel testing, portfolio migration and on-going trade capture, building up the system’s database and user access rights, trade workflow development, static data development, system-reconciliation and reporting, documenting new trade and workflow procedures as well as developing various controls to mirror current processes

London, United Kingdom

• Working directly with the Emerging Markets FO desk to self-manage a project aimed at auctioning RBS’s non-core Emerging Markets business• Establishing, developing and managing relationships with all of RBS’s Emerging Market counterparties across all EM currencies, while reaching out to these counterparts to put forward RBS’s novation proposal, as part of the auction sell-off• Subsequently liaising with the auction winning counterparties to finalise novation dates while acting as the intermediary between all relevant counterparties to the novation• Assisting FO to help determine CSA implications and calculate associated cost/benefits of novating RBS’s positions• Ensuring all internal bank checks are met for a set of trades prior to novating with a given counterparty. This includes credit limit approval and collateral management• Managing, assimilating and processing large amounts of trade level data across all EM currencies. Using this information to produce detailed weekly MI statistics and report this output to senior FO members of RBS’s Capital Resolution business• Monitoring currency specific progress and assisting FO to ascertain whether RWA targets and measures are being met• Handling all operational aspects of the role including; trade-level processing within RBS’s internal risk system, validation protocol, and all bilateral MarkitWire processing and affirmation procedures

London, United Kingdom

• Providing comprehensive trade support to the Global Banking & Markets delta trading business while diligently managing all aspects of the team’s functions• Conducting daily reconciliations across the business’ rates trading desks, which involves reconciling system P&L against flash P&L, identifying discrepancies and implementing necessary adjustments• P&L investigations: developing an understanding of traders’ start of day risk figures/MTM buckets to help explain P&L discrepancies and Net Present Valuations• Assessing all relevant derivative and hedging products booked into the bank’s core Risk Management System including: Vanilla IRS; Cross Currency Swaps; Forward Rate Agreements and OIS instruments• Compiling the daily OIS discounting curve/OIS projection curve reports to maintain trade integrity, while ensuring accurate pricing of trades with regard to counterparties, and liaising with the Portfolio Optimization team to manage ongoing CSA changes• Utilizing strong interpersonal skills to develop excellent working relationships with Portfolio Optimization personnel and collaboratively ensuring compliance with clearing standards and collateral obligations• Ensuring timely submission of a diverse range of reports and reconciliations, including: P&L cross system data checks; internal deal checks; exercise reports; trade exceptions reports and other daily control reports• Utilizing subject matter expertise to critically assess current and future system architecture while pro-actively generating/pursuing opportunities to improve current controls and processesProjects led:• Live Portfolio Test Book Project: Developing a VBA based control to monitor daily trade activity across numerous traders’ books, resulting in enhanced control and transparency • Counterparty Summary P&L Project: Building a VBA based tool to itemise the P&L of desks versus each counterparty on a daily basis

London, United Kingdom

* Providing trade assistance and support to the SCM Markets and SCM Treasury Portfolio Management desks. Responsible for executing trades, maintaining operational control, monitoring associated market risks, and overall process development.* We support the area across a number of traded instruments - owing to the nature of our structured business and the arbitrage strategies employed. Most common products supported & traded include; equity & basket swaps, interest rate derivatives, put-call option strategies, security pledges, repurchase agreements, futures, plain vanilla stock sales & purchases, standard funding trades, among other products.* Also handle all instrument specific rate reset functions and unwinds, in addition to monitoring corporate action related bookings and dividend tax credit allocations.* As a senior member of the trade support team I am also heavily involved in meetings surrounding new structure setup. These meetings require me to apply my operational expertise towards a number of items raised during discussion.* Also responsible for critically analysing a number of processes on an ongoing basis in the hope of identifying potential efficiency gains. This may include; assessing cross-system functionality, liaising with IT Product/System Development teams, exploring methods employed by other internal Trade Support teams, or simply making use of Excel Macros/VBA logic to help facilitate the streamlining of our team’s core daily functions.* Good experience with project related work including; the migration of the FO SCM Treasury function, devising an entity cash clean-up to pick up excess entity cash to be used elsewhere for funding purposes. - More recently, I took lead responsibility self-managing a project aimed at migrating the SCM Middle Office equity derivative unwind procedure over to another in-house system platform.

London

* Worked within the SCM Treasury and Portfolio Management team. Managed and funded a number of complex structured trades with multiple entities and ensured their efficient running throughout each trade’s life cycle.* Managed post-execution funding, sourced funding where necessary, updated/reset models, maintained and monitored associated risk limits. In addition executing/instructing trades within the transaction including; fixed income purchases, various swaps (TRSs, IRSs, XCSs), FX trades, repos, zero-coupon bonds for funding purposes, repos, forwards and other derivatives.* Liaised with external counterparties regarding trade information. Also arranged and ran board meetings to present financial results and corporate governance requirements to directors.* In addition provided SCM with an internal treasury source and acted as a vital source of funding for structures and entities within the business. Entailed optimising the allocation of funds through calculating perceived benefits and implicit rates while accounting for the ongoing changes to the firm’s liquidity and balance sheet requirements.* Further required to hedge against potential market risks arising from FX exposure.* I later developed SCM’s cross-currency funding initiative which often involved directly trading with BarCap’s FX desk notionals ranging between the £500m and £1bn region* In addition identifying arbitrage opportunities, executing business wide hedge designations using the bank’s various exposures as hedging instruments and overall money market management.

– Became familiar with the Collateralized Debt Obligations desk located within ABN-Amro’s Traded Markets Division. Gained an invaluable insight into the representative trading environment and developed a firm understanding of various asset-backed securities.