Benjamin Grassi

Experience

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  M.W. Marshall & Co

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Yen IRS desk; Junior Broker.

  - Primary responsibility was to provide a live price notification feed between the Asian satellite offices and London desk. - Compiled trade tickets and reports. - Liaised between client and back office to ensure a smooth settlement of transactions.- Responsible for the updating of the price board and internal spreadsheets, which tracked daily price movements and historical pricing.

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  MF Global

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2003

  Equity sales trading/Equity desk - Execution dealer.

  - Principal role was to establish and maintain relationships across a vast number of US and European based accounts. Ensuring SLA’s would be adhered to from order origination to post trade execution completion. - Electronic and verbal order execution, trading single stock lines and baskets, which were executed via the Fidessa trading platform directly into European equity markets, or with market makers if the order required so.- US and Caribbean based clients would entrust me with the following day’s European market orders, these were to be worked at my discretion, and would include basket business, v.w.a.p linked and A/B share switches for best execution. - Provided clients with pro-active, suitably crafted trading colour and advice based on the understanding of the client’s needs within European and US equity markets. - Compiled a daily post trade summary and suggested strategy advice to help pursue best execution.- Maintained a close working relationship with our global research teams, ensuring their availability for client calls was paramount if required. - Daily participation in the trader’s and sales morning meeting, providing market colour, views, a general rounded outlook of the day’s economic events and previews, estimates, and expectations of any company reports due for release that day.- Identified and recommended long and short US and European equity trading ideas, tailored to satisfy client risk appetite.- E-commerce assistance with trading screen management. - TCA report preparation for clients. Show less

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  Eurobrokers

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Eurobond desk; Broker

  - Primary focus on multi-currency IG credit, across a varied range of sectors. - Disseminated prices among financial institutions across North America and Europe by using the Bloomberg and Reuters platforms.- Proactive in cross marketing different asset class products and leveraging both internal and external relationships to help gain market share for the company. - Created a close working relationship with other desks internally who focused on different asset classes, to provide a ‘one stop shop’ facility to clients who had a diverse universe of market exposure. Show less

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  Tradition

  Jun 2005 - Jan 2023

  Multi Currency Credit Desk; Senior Sales/Broker - Execution Specialist

  - Part of the Tradition Money Market desk, providing a full service, bond-brokerage facility, and trading/idea origination to a diverse range of globally positioned clients. - Demonstrated track record in both capturing and enhancing client relationships, dedicated to achieving satisfaction with constant attention on business quality, productivity, and bottom line financial performance. - Exposure to the full credit spectrum across a varied array of debt levels structures and global currencies. These include corporate, financial, covered, supra/sovereign, convertible, municipal, high yield, high grade, fixed and floating rate, senior and subordinated bonds. - Pan global, grey market exposure and an established, constant communication line with primary dealers, syndication, and treasury desks, discussing possible future debt issuance, daily FX positioning, T-Bill and CD exposure. - Integral part of the development team that successfully built, tested and also marketed Tradition’s electronic auction matching OMS for Japanese, Australian and Yankee bonds. - Entrusted with the execution of US originated, discretionary worked orders in Asian and European time zones. - A constant line of communication with account opening, risk and compliance teams to ensure that new business origination processes are completed correctly and in good time.- Responsible for the timely execution of client orders, with primary emphasis on “best ex” at all times. Show less

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  MarketAxess

  Feb 2023 - now

  DealerAxess