Andrew Street

Course Director at IFF Training

Trainer

For almost three decades Dr Andrew Street has been involved in the forefront of the pricing, trading and management of financial risk in world markets. He has direct experience of running and regulating large financial institutions globally, including being trading head of an investment bank and a senior risk adviser at the Bank of England.

Andrew was formerly Executive Director - Head of Arbitrage and prior to that Director - Head of Equity and Commodity Derivatives (which included market making and creating hybrid complex structured products) at Mitsubishi Finance Intl (now Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ). Before moving to Mitsubishi he was Head of Equity Derivative Trading at Nomura International and Senior Equity Derivatives Trader at Paribas Capital Markets (BNP- Paribas). He has also traded rates, currencies, bonds and most asset classes professionally. He has worked in Europe, Asia and North America. In addition to his extensive market practitioner experience, Andrew has been a senior financial regulator including being Head of Traded Risk at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), Risk Advisor to the Bank of England and Assistant Director - Head of Market Risk at the Securities and Futures Authority (SFA). This has provided him with a unique insight in to the control, regulation and modelling of financial and other types of risk across the whole spectrum of financial and trading institutions globally. Andrew has also authored a number of articles/books on risk management and mathematical and structured finance and holds advanced quantitative degrees from the Universities of Durham and Oxford.