Boyan Chalakov, CFA

FI Sales at BestX
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(386) 825-5501
Location
London, England, United Kingdom, GB

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Credentials

  • CFA
    CFA Program
    Apr, 2018
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • FI Sales
      • Oct 2019 - Present

    • Germany
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Assistant to Vice President
      • 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;

    • Assistant Vice President
      • 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;

    • Switzerland
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Trade Capture Specialist
      • 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

    • Complex Equity and Hybrid Trade Support
      • 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

Education

  • University of Nottingham
    MSc Economics and Financial Economics, Economics
    2010 - 2011

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