Nicholas WatsonCourse Director at IFFTrainer
Profile
Nicholas has accumulated over 35 years of experience in the capital and money markets and now established his own financial consulting and training company, International Treasury Services Group in 1998. The company now has representation in Kuala Lumpur and Sydney and a representative office in New York and London with over 14 executives involved in financial consulting and training. He has been a Private Banker, Corporate Treasury Advisor and Fund Manager.
Nicholas’ knowledge and experience in financial training is manifested in the over 640 courses in more than 24 countries that he has delivered since 1995. The company’s portfolio of clients is extensive and includes many central banks, international banks, major corporations, stocks and derivatives exchanges. Prior to establishing ITS, he was seconded from HSBC Bank Australia to HSBC Holdings Group Training and Management Development college in London in 1995, where he began his career as a trainer in a team of 4 executives responsible for all treasury product training for the Group.
His knowledge of financial markets spans 11 years in which time he has had direct dealing or strategy responsibility that spans all four sectors of financial markets namely foreign exchange, money markets, bonds and equity markets. He is familiar with structured products from the buy-side of the market yet has uniquely spent his career within a bank, working with executives on the sell-side.
In his former capacity as manager of Treasury Consulting Services with HSBC Bank Australia, Nicholas was an in-house consultant (not sales!) to many corporate clients. Amongst his mandates was the currency risk management for the Australian Tourist Commission as well as a wide range of consulting assignments to corporations on asset, liability and derivatives management.
Prior to that, Nicholas spent four years as Chief Investment Manager at BNP Investment Management, a subsidiary of Banque Nationale de Paris in Sydney where he established an investment management company targeted primarily at corporate and wholesale investment management activities principally in Australian dollar fixed interest investments. Nicholas assumed responsibility for all investment dealing
activities including strategy, investment selection and execution. His client base later expanded to include domestic equities, currency deposits and forwards, together with bonds and financial futures.