Paul Smith Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Built out newly created Derivatives Operations team to service rates & LDI fund post-acquisition.
• Embedded Merian's Fixed Income range of funds to become part of this operational framework.
• Implemented MTF OTC clearing for Rates (Int/Infl) and Credit under Cat 3 status/FC.
• Managed the onboarding of new clearing broker relationships.
• Member of Execution Working Group reviewing TCA data.
• Implemented new products such as Excess Return Swaps and NDIRS.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Supported trading desks based in London and New York.
• Product coverage included Equities, FI, ETD and OTC such as Var/Vol Swaps, TRS & FX Options.
• Part of team that recruited, trained and mentored new members of the operational team.
• Travelled to New York to cross train and covered NY desk out of hours from London.
• Assisted in Treasury functions such as borrow requests and queries from Trading.
• Constant liaison and relationship management with stock loan/swap desks and PB’s.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Full Settlement and Reconciliation of markets including South Africa, Turkey, Oman, and Greece.
• Day-to-day liaison with middle office and local agents in EM regions.
• Recruited by Fixed Income Operations Manager to work on higher volume team.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Confirming Trades over the phone.
• Static Data Updates.
• General Office duties.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Confirming Trades over the phone.
• Static Data Updates.
• General Office duties.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Finance, 2.2

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A Level X 4, Including Law C

Gcse X 10, Including Maths A