Muhammad Waqas Sheikh, Senior Dealer FX

Muhammad Waqas Sheikh

Senior Dealer FX

Habib Bank Ltd

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
18 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 3 Months

Senior Dealer FX at Habib Bank Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since February 2006

Designation Chronology:

Manage the Daily FX flow of the bank.
Traded all the treasury FX/MM Instruments.
Experienced in Reuters trading.
• AUGUST 2006 TO DATE: TEAM LEADER, FX DESK
• FEB-APR 2006 Corporate Dealer
• APR-JULY 2006 Money Market Dealer

Interbank USD/PKR dealing in ready, forward and swap market with average daily turnover of more than USD 100 million.
Manage USD/PKR swap book (amounting to USD500 million in size) through gapping strategies to take advantage of expected favorable price movement
Act as a price maker for USD/PKR trades.
Articulate market views and translate into trading strategies
Formulate funding and gapping strategies to take advantage of market movements.
Generate additional FX Income through proprietary trading within trading limits allotted.
Help FX sales desk in quoting most profitable and competitive prices to customers
Arbitrager, looking for and have taken benefit of arbitrage opportunities between Money Markets and FX.
Quote foreign currency buying and selling rates to inter-bank counter parties and corporate clients
Ensure efficient and effective management of the bank exchange position and swap book together with foreign currency liquidity management in the nostro accounts.
Quote foreign currency deposit and loan rates to branches and corporate customers, keeping in mind overall banks portfolio of assets and liabilities and current money markets conditions.
Generate Revenue through the execution of client orders as well as hedging of client positions.
Ensure compliance with all the internal risk management and external regulatory parameters on day to day FX transactions, supporting and covering customer transactions generated by the treasury marketing unit.
Prepare reports and markets updates for ALCO.
Involved in developing and upgrading the current treasury system (Webtech & Opics). Guiding Developers requirements of treasury in new system for better user interface and more information availability to treasury dealers.

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Institute Of Business Administration
  • December 2005

Specialties & Skills

FX Trading
English
Microsoft Office
Bloomberg
Reuters
Ability to work effectively in groups and achieve deadlines under pressure.
Microsoft Office
Reuters Dealing
Bloomberg

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

ACI certificate for trader (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
June 2011