Ricardo Guimarães rejoined BNP Paribas in 2014 as Head of Trading for Interest Rate, FX and Credit products in Latin America. He was also appointed as Head of Global Markets Brazil in 2015 and also as Head of Global Markets in Latin America and Brazil since April 2018.In January 2020, he was appointed CEO of Banco BNP Paribas Brasil. Ricardo is also the Head of the Brazil Territory which, besides the bank, includes the insurance company Cardif, Cetelem, specialist in Consumer Finance and Arval, fleet manager of vehicles. In total there are 1700 employees in the Group, of which 800 are Banco BNP Paribas employees only.Prior of rejoining BNP Paribas, he was a partner/portfolio manager at Garde Asset Management (Brazil based hedge fund). He started as USDBRL FX trader at CCF Brazil Bank in 1997, moving to BNP Paribas in 2001, where he was the trader responsible for local USD linked instruments and USDBRL NDF activity. Ricardo was also Head of Trading for Brazil from 2011 till 2013.Ricardo graduates from Universidade de São Paulo and holds a degree in Industrial Engineering.