TRADING. LIQUIDITY. WHAT COMES NEXT.
Specialist financial markets consulting at the intersection of trading, technology and new asset classes.
From futures and options to digital assets and AI compute. Practical insight to build stronger trading businesses, deepen liquidity and assess new opportunities.
Perspective earned
on the trading desk.
01 / AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Trading decisions, liquidity and infrastructure are connected. The most useful advice understands how each part changes the others.
Pricing, volatility and risk through the lens of a working trading desk. Experience in European rates options, multi-expiry portfolios and futures-based hedging.
MARKET EXPERIENCE / Bund · Bobl · Schatz · Euribor · Short Sterling
Discuss derivativesConnect pricing quality, inventory discipline and commercial objectives. Design liquidity provision around the realities of your market, counterparties and capital.
Turn a trading idea into an operating capability. Bring trading, product and engineering together around execution quality, measurable performance and robust controls.
A foundation in European government bond and short-term interest rate options, with an understanding of how curve dynamics, policy expectations and market structure influence trading.
Institutional trading experience across spot, linear derivatives and OTC markets. Understand the opportunities and operational demands of fragmented, always-on markets.
Bring derivatives and market-design thinking to compute capacity and AI inference consumption. Assess how commercial supply can support price certainty, transferable contracts and a credible market.
FOCUS / The economics of compute and inference consumption
Explore compute marketsTurn a new market idea into a testable commercial proposition. From satellite capacity to other emerging assets, start with the underlying rights, natural buyers and sellers, and the practicalities of delivery.
02 / HOW I HELP
For trading firms, exchanges, institutional teams and founders building the next generation of markets.
FEASIBILITY & REVIEW
Assess the viability of a new market, or review an existing trading operation. Examine demand, product design, liquidity and economics before committing to implementation.
A prioritised assessment, decision points and a practical action plan.
DESIGN & BUILD
Develop a desk, liquidity programme, execution workflow or new market proposition, working through the commercial and technical detail with your team.
An operating blueprint, implementation priorities and measures of success.
ADVISE
A sounding board for leadership teams navigating trading, product and growth decisions. Challenge assumptions and bring a practitioner’s view to the room.
Ongoing decision support, focused workshops and senior market perspective.
03 / THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE ADVICE
My career spans European rates options, the operation of a regulated trading business, and institutional digital asset liquidity.
I bring together the trading desk’s attention to pricing and risk, the operator’s focus on execution, and an engineering background in artificial intelligence.
MBA · London Business School
MEng, Electronic Engineering with Artificial Intelligence · University of Southampton
15 years of trading experience across futures, options and spot markets in fixed income and digital assets, including leadership of European government bond options desks and trading teams at a crypto-native unicorn.
Built an OTC trading business serving more than 100 institutional counterparties through API quoting, algorithmic execution and voice trading. Oversaw 40+ trading operations across 30 venues, providing algorithmic liquidity around the clock.
Experience developing models for systematic market making and optimal execution, alongside contributions to proprietary options pricing and risk systems.
Designed exchange and OTC risk frameworks covering inventory, counterparties, venues and liquidity concentration. Led a 45-person trading and product/engineering team, doubling like-for-like revenue within 12 months.
THE APPROACH
Every engagement begins with your objectives, the evidence available and the constraints that matter. Scope, outputs and ways of working are agreed before work starts.
04 / START A CONVERSATION
A trading challenge. A liquidity question. A market that is taking shape. Tell me where you are and what you want to achieve.