Equity Finance Trader
Resume:
ANTHONY ROTONDI
Brooklyn, New York 11234
Email: **************@**.***
EXPERIENCE:
ING Financial Markets, New York, N.Y March 2002- January 2014
Global Securities Finance: Financial Markets
Area: International and U.S Trading Desk Title: Equity Finance Trader
• Managed cash flow for the U.S equity product to maintain liquidity and provide revenue opportunities.
• Worked closely with the U.S derivatives desk on corporate actions including tender offers and rights offerings to maximize revenues
for the firm.
• Pushed the firm’s longs to the street in order to reduce the funding requirement on a daily basis.
• Analyzed current and potential clients to determine future revenues for the firm.
• Managed the hard to borrow and the Exchange traded funds on a daily basis maximizing revenues for the firm.
• Maintained a strong working relationship with Agency lenders and broker dealers globally in order to
facilitate in house needs and service hedge fund clients.
• Continued service of market knowledge on deal-specific names, convertibles and dividend arbitrage strategies.
• Managed a $2.5 billion Canadian book.
• Country Captain for the European Equity supply team.
• Controlled the daily P&L, imbalances and dividend breaks.
• Further exposure to U.S relationships in regards to offshore business.
• Worked closely with the London trade desk.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, New York, N.Y. August 1999 – March 2002
Global Investor Services: Global Securities Lending
Area: International Trading Desk Title: International Trader
• Negotiated international securities loans for Chase’s top custodial clients.
• Lent equities in 24 different countries.
• Maintained consistency of rates across accounts and borrowers for greater profitability.
• Managed contract compare on a daily basis with all of Chase’s brokers.
• Communicated NY International desk information to all of the internal traders.
• Distributed index baskets in Europe to all of Chase’s brokers.
LEHMAN BROTHERS, Jersey City, NJ August 1997 – August 1999
Global Securities Lending
Area: International Trade Support Title: Team Leader
• Acted as operational support for the International Traders who lend and borrow from brokers and banks.
• Primary contact for specific banks and brokers, responsible for marks, recalls and all settlement issues.
• Provided to management and the trading desk a weekly MIS report on total marks, returns, new loans and
total collateral (cash and non-cash) outstanding per week.
• Balanced all cash activity versus prior day charges; due to new borrows and borrow returns with all clients
Via DTC and Fed wire.
• Oversaw all fails for Europe and Asia, follow-up with counterparties to ensure settlement the following day.
• Monitored all exposure with non-cash clients.
• Executed monthly comparison with our internal lending system and the external bank’s clearing system.
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, New York, N.Y. May 1995 - July 1997
Global Investor Services: Global Securities Lending
Area: Trade Support Title: Team Leader
• Interfaced and provided trade support and service for the International and Domestic Traders.
• Activities include: Settlement problems on loan activity, management of the conflict of customer sales
and loan activity that results in loan reallocations, recalls, buy-ins and compensation claims.
• Investigated and resolved broker/client inquiries that include; loan fails, corporate actions and asset h
discrepancies.
• Repriced corporate bonds based on market fluctuations.
• Monitored all core custody system differences between the global custody system and the lending system.
EDUCATION:
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville N.Y. May 1995
B.S. Business Management, Major: Finance
• NCAA Baseball Team Aug. 1991- May 1995.
• Theta Chi Fraternity
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
• Series 63 certified
• Series 7 certified
SKILLS:
• Proficient on PC-based systems & Sun Workstations: Software: MS Word 6.0, MS Excel 5.0 MS Outlook.
• Internal Software- (Socrates, Global One)
• Bloomberg
• Loanet
• Lending pit
REFERENCES:
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