Reuters Announces New Global FX Analyst Team
Aimed to deepen Reuters FX, macroeconomic and money market news and
analysis offering
LONDON (November 16, 2009) - Reuters today announced its newly
created six-member FX analyst team. This global band of FX
commentators are a vital part of Reuters effort to deepen its FX,
macroeconomic and money market news and analysis offering.
In addition to serving as core contributors to Reuters newly launched
global treasury chatroom, The Dealing Room, FX analysts will make
regular appearances on Thomson Reuters Insider's daily FX programs,
and will contribute market commentary to Thomson Reuters financial
clients.
"Their market intelligence on currency flows, trading strategies,
discussion around who's up and who's down and chewing the news with
the journalists on the front line is providing a lively, compelling
and addictive mix," says Stella Dawson, Global Editor, Treasury News.
Rick Lloyd, based in Singapore, has more than three decades in the FX
market trading spot, options and forwards. For six years Lloyd ran
ABN-AMRO's G10 FX trading desk in Asia, helping build the
regional franchise that RBS acquired. Before joining ABN, he headed
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's global FX trading and sales where
his desk was among the first to trade the euro common currency in
1999. Lloyd started his career as a spot FX trader at Morgan Guaranty
Trust in London and then worked at banks in Los Angeles for 13 years,
including Bank of America.
Neal Kimberley, based in London, is a 24-year veteran of the foreign
exchange markets. Immediately prior to joining Reuters in September,
Kimberley ran the FX sales desk at Bank Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ with
control over both Yen and non-Yen business. Prior to that, Kimberley
was chief dealer in European currencies at the bank. He also has
worked as a senior dealer in cable at the Bank of Nova Scotia, Bergen
Bank and as an FX trader at Continental Illinois, all in London.
Marco Garavello, based in London, specializes in FX options and
joined Reuters in October. Garavello has worked for the past two
years at Morgan Stanley, making markets in vanilla and exotic options
on euro-based currency pairs, assisting in pricing and risk
management of structured products and in sales to European corporate
clients of hedging solutions and structured products. Prior to that,
Garavello was an analyst in FX sales and in equity research for
insurance at Merrill Lynch.
Kevin Weir, based in New York, spent the last 12 years with State
Street in Boston as a senior managing director in charge of
multi-asset class sales working closely with the academics at State
Street Associates. Prior to that, Weir worked in FX sales and trading
with Lloyds Bank, CIBC and ABN-Amro.
Jim Cochrane, based in New York, will specialize in Latin American
currencies, particularly non-deliverable forwards. He has worked in
institutional FX sales and as an emerging markets local currency
research analyst on Wall Street at Standard Chartered, RBS, Deutsche
Bank and Citi.
Krishna Kumar, based in Sydney, has more than two decades of
experience in the FX markets. For the past two years, Kumar ran his
own currency consultancy from Sydney and previously worked as a
proprietary trader at Erste Bank and Commerzbank in Hong Kong. For 10
years he worked at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in different roles
across Asia, including as chief dealer for Asian currencies where he
was head of spot, forward and NDF trading.
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