I have over 20 years’ experience in investment banking and financial markets. My primary areas of expertise relate to Fixed Income & Interest Rate Derivatives and Trading and Market Risk Management.Specific areas of expertise include:Interest Rate Derivatives and Trading- Management of government and corporate bonds, swaps and interest rate derivatives trading books;- The pricing, trading and risk management of complex interest rate products including options, exotic and structured products over interest rates;- Experience in asset backed derivatives and credit derivatives, including corporate bonds, credit default swaps and CDO’s;- Construction of yield curves for all interest rate products;- Pricing vanilla interest rate products including money market instruments, bonds and swaps;- Valuation and present valuing of cashflow streams;- Settlement procedures, front to back trade processing, operations and accounting of interest rate derivative books;- First-hand experience of the broker, interbank and corporate interest rate and derivative markets.Market Risk Management- Oversight of the traded risk of all businesses within an investment bank. These include fixed income and interest rates, credit trading, foreign exchange, asset-backed securities and equities;- Experience in the identification, measurement, monitoring, analysis and reporting of the market risk generated in financial markets businesses;- Understanding of local and international Market Risk regulatory standards;- Responsible for monitoring and drafting of market risk limits, trading mandates and dealing authorities;- Comprehensive experience in risk management systems and production of risk reports from trade and book data;- Understanding of settlement and other operational procedures.