Richard Seiffer
Email: *********@********.***
Address: *** ******* **** ****
City: Wilton
State: CT
Zip: 06897
Country: USA
Phone: 347-***-****
Skill Level: Experienced
Salary Range: $175,000
Willing to Relocate
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RICHARD W. SEIFFER
116 Danbury Road, 2205
Wilton, CT 06897
*********@********.***
REGISTERED PRINCIPAL / DIRECTOR / COMPLIANCE / TRADING / FIXED INCOME
Series 24 registered principal with 20 years of financial service
experience in compliance, trading, sales, marketing, risk management,
retirement solutions, market making, best execution, business continuity,
supply chain management, and all levels of middle and back office
support, on both the retail and institutional level.
FINRA Series 24, Series 7, Series 63 licensed
BA/BS Finance/Banking, Minor in Economics from Adelphi
University 1993.
CAREER SUMMARY
Registered Principal/Director, Head of Best Execution Compliance,
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, July 2008 to May 2012. Series 24
registered principal. Served as the Head of the Best Execution
Compliance Group, within Capital Markets, ensuring regulatory
compliance on all taxable fixed income trades. (TRACE,
Best Execution) Drove the automation of the Best Execution
process from a labor intensive, manual process of sampling trades,
to an automated process of reviewing all potential problem trades.
Also, served as a marketer of actionable trading ideas, within the
fixed income space, as well as business continuity manager and
supply chain manager.
Trader/Associate Director, Bear Stearns & Co.,
2000-2007, Retail Trader of Fixed Income. Market maker
for private client brokers in treasuries, zero coupon
and agency securities. Proprietary trader for
positions of 100 securities valued up to $100m.
Served as compliance liaison for trading desk,
retail brokers, and legal department.
Institutional Broker of Treasury Bonds, Cantor
Fitzgerald & Co. Inc., 1994 to 2000. Institutional
Broker of Treasury Securities, specifically 30 yr bonds.
Promoted from an entry level back office position through
several middle office positions, before completing an
extensive 6 month training program, which resulted in a
5 year tenure as an institutional broker covering some of the
largest primary dealers on the street, like Salomon Bros.
and Deutsche Bank
Summer Intern, New York Stock Exchange, 1985, 1986, 1987.
Spent 3 summers as an intern on the floor of the NYSE
receiving extensive real world financial experience in
the financial markets while still in high school.