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Guy Boyd

Guy Boyd

London,Bromley

Summary

Im a dynamic and driven finance professional with 9 years of experience spanning investment banking, portfolio management support and trading. Progressed from operational roles in middle office functions to front office trading, demonstrating a strong understanding of the full trade lifecycle. Currently an Emerging Markets Trader at Apollo, covering both public and private EM credit. Previously supported the Credit and EM trading desks at Bank of America, gaining valuable insight into market dynamics and trading strategy. Highly adaptable and performance-oriented, with a passion for fast-paced environments and a continuous drive to grow, contribute, and deliver results within complex global markets.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Emerging Markets Trader

04.2022 - 09.2025
  • Execute EM credit trades across hard currency (USD, EUR, GBP) bonds and CDS, ensuring best execution in line with fund mandates and regulatory constraints.
  • Source trade ideas and market opportunities in sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and corporate EM debt to support portfolio performance.
  • Provide real-time market colour and trade intelligence to portfolio managers, analysts, and risk teams to aid in decision-making and alpha generation.
  • Maintain and deepen relationships with key counterparties (sales, syndicate desks, traders) to enhance flow, improve pricing, and access new issuance.
  • Monitor and resolve trade breaks or operational issues, ensuring smooth trade settlement and mitigating risks such as buy-ins or regulatory breaches.
  • React swiftly to market-moving events, remaining informed and responsive to macroeconomic and geopolitical developments impacting EM markets.
  • Conduct performance attribution and benchmark comparison analysis, presenting insights to the portfolio manager and supporting board-level reporting.
  • Involved heavily in the lifecycle of Apollos ever growing private market transactions — from origination and structuring to execution and post-trade processing — ensuring accurate staging and timely settlement of bespoke EM credit deals.

Middle Office Analyst

Ashmore Group
10.2021 - 04.2022
  • Maintain multiple queues of trades executed by the desk which are segregated by product Equities, Bonds and Repo. Ensuring they get matched over DTC Connect in a timely manner. This in turn reduces the fines we pay for late matching and help ease the settlement process.
  • Remain on top of our ageing fails and proceed with issuing buy-ins where we are failing to receive.
  • Ensure our Reg Reporting is up to date, we are meeting all the reporting requirements (MIFID, EMIR, UKMIR).

AVP Trading Assistant

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
02.2019 - 10.2021
  • Manage each traders risk ensuring all trades are booked and accounted for across several desks. I currently support Emerging Markets, Credit and Mortgages from a FICC perspective.
  • Resolve any queries or issues raised to the desk such as PnL, KYC, Broker bookings, settlement mismatches, failing to deliver, etc.
  • Monitor wash books which are used for separate entities and ensure the desk are complying with MIFID 2 regulations.
  • Book out trades for the desks when required in the trading system Bloomberg.
  • Join Ageing fails calls and relay aged fails that require covering or Repo cover to reduce fines incurred.
  • New to the FICC scene is ETF trading, which is gaining momentum so creating the pipelines and enabling the desk to trade ETF’s as hedge for their PNL book.
  • CSDR – has been a key project I have been heaving involved in for over a year now, this new fails process is set to come in 2022.
  • Also trying to automate any daily processes we perform to free up more time I can invest in project work and improvements.
  • Create monthly and weekly volume requests for the desk and for sales to attract in new business.

Education

BSC (Hons) - Business with Modern (Spanish)

The University of Ulster
01.2013 - 01.2016

Skills

  • Systems: Highly proficient Bloomberg, TradeWeb, MarketAxess, Trumid, BQL and ThinkFolio
  • Trading and Execution
  • Emerging Markets knowledge
  • Communication with different stakeholders
  • Compliance and regulatory awareness

Awards

2014-2015 – Treasurer of the University of Ulster Equestrian team, 2015-2016 – PRINCE2 Foundation level Certificate, 2024-2025 – Captain at Beckenham Football Club

Affiliations

  • Enjoy playing football and to that extent I am the captain at our local team in Beckenham
  • Horse Ridding was always a hobby of mine growing up in Ireland.

Languages

English
Native
Spanish
Fluent

Timeline

Emerging Markets Trader

04.2022 - 09.2025

Middle Office Analyst

Ashmore Group
10.2021 - 04.2022

AVP Trading Assistant

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
02.2019 - 10.2021

BSC (Hons) - Business with Modern (Spanish)

The University of Ulster
01.2013 - 01.2016

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