Boyan Chalakov, CFA
FI Sales at BestX- Claim this Profile
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Bio
Credentials
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CFA
CFA ProgramApr, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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BestX
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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FI Sales
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Oct 2019 - Present
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Deutsche Bank
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Germany
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant to Vice President
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Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Build valuation inputs (e.g. interest rate curves, credit curves, etc.) used in the IPV process;Investigate valuation discrepancies between IPV valuation and desk valuation;Redesign the interest rate curve IPV process across over 20 EM currencies;Discuss with desk valuation breaches and the next steps needed to resolve the issues;
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Assistant Vice President
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Dec 2014 - Feb 2019
Conduct comprehensive post-execution reviews (legal terms vs risk bookings and vice versa) of the most high-profile transactions across asset classes and regions;Highlight all aspect of the legal documents that are unclear and can pose risk;Analyse the trade risk modelling approach and assess its accuracy against the contractual terms;Challenge front office on booking discrepancies, trade assumptions and risk approximations; Validate key accounting and regulatory pre-execution decisions;Document the review in a comprehensive memo used by front office, audit, regulators;Organise managing-director-level meetings to discuss the output of the reviews;Performed two-way reviews (legal terms vs risk bookings and vice versa) for a variety or fixed income products: FX options, bonds, forwards, swaptions, digital options, swaps;Raised and resolved risk and trade booking queries;Participated in the launch of a key global intra-system reconciliation process;Contributed significantly (70-80%) to the set-up of an off-shore team;Improved and created new VBA tools leading to significant time savings and risk reduction;
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UBS
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Switzerland
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Trade Capture Specialist
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Jun 2014 - Nov 2014
Managed trade bookings into the risk system for the wholeEquity Derivatives businessReported the risk output of new trades to the trading desk andFinance
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Complex Equity and Hybrid Trade Support
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Jan 2012 - Jun 2014
Ensured there were no issues at any stage of the trade life cycleby fully understanding the front-to-back processing of varioustradesGained comprehensive product knowledge in a variety of equityderivatives: Options, Swaps, ETFs, CPPTs, CPNs, VMNs, VFNs,Volatility Target trades, Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund trades
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Education
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University of Nottingham
MSc Economics and Financial Economics, Economics