Moorad Choudhry was formerly Head of Business Treasury, Global Banking and Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Education

Choudhry attended

Claremont Fan Court School Claremont Fan Court School is a co-educational independent school, for pupils from 2½ to 18 years. Situated outside Esher, in Surrey, sixteen miles from London, it is located on the grounds of the Claremont Estate. It is a member of the Socie ...

. He graduated from the

University of Westminster The University of Westminster is a public university, public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first Polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic to open in London. The Polyte ...

(known as Polytechnic of Central London at the time) with a

First class degree The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom. The system has been applied (sometimes with significant variati ...

in Economics. He graduated from the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

with an MA. In 1998, he completed an MBA at

Henley Management College Henley Business School is a business school which now forms part of the University of Reading. It was formed by merging the previously independent Henley Management College (formerly the Administrative Staff College) with the existing business ...

. In 2008, he completed a PhD in

Financial economics Financial economics, also known as finance, is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade". William F. Sharpe"Financia ...

at Birkbeck, University of London. Choudhry is Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics,

London Metropolitan University London Metropolitan University, commonly known as London Met, is a public research university in London, England. The University of North London (formerly the Polytechnic of North London) and London Guildhall University (formerly the City ...

, a Visiting Research Fellow at the ICMA Centre, University of Reading, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Mathematical Trading and Finance,

Cass Business School Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of City, University of London, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966, and it is consistently ranked as one ...

, a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management.

Career

Choudhry was formerly Head of Business Treasury, Global Banking and Markets at Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Before joining RBS, He was Head of Treasury at Europe Arab Bank, a subsidiary of

Arab Bank Arab Bank is one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East, founded in 1930 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, as the first private sector financial institution in the Arab world. Headquartered today in Amman, Jordan, it serves cl ...

. He joined there from KBC Financial Products in London, the derivatives and convertible bond trading arm of

KBC Bank KBC Group is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Kredietbank ...

N.V., Brussels. Prior to that he was a vice-president in Structured Finance Services sales and marketing at

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. As of 2022, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, the ...

Bank, a sterling proprietary trader in the Treasury division at

Hambros Bank Hambros Bank was a British bank based in London. The Hambros bank was a specialist in Anglo-Scandinavian business with expertise in trade finance and investment banking, and was the sole banker to the Scandinavian kingdoms for many years. The Bank ...

Limited, and a Gilt-Edged Market Maker and money markets trader at ABN Amro Hoare Govett Limited. He began his City career at the

London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London, England, United Kingdom. , the total market value of all companies trading on LSE was £3.9 trillion. Its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St P ...

in 1989. Also, he is on the advisory board of Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.

Awards and nominations

In January 2015, Choudhry was nominated for the Arts and Culture Awareness award at the

British Muslim Awards The British Muslim Awards are an annual award ceremony that honours the success and achievements of British Muslim individuals, groups and businesses. It was established in 2013. Overview The British Muslim Awards was founded by Oceanic Consult ...

Professional Affiliations

* Fellow,

Securities & Investment Institute The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is a global professional body for those in the financial and investment profession. It offers a range of qualifications and resources for professional development, as well as setting sta ...

* Fellow,

Global Association of Risk Professionals Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) is a not-for-profit organization and a membership association for risk managers. Its services include setting standards, training, education, industry networking, and promoting risk management practi ...

* Fellow, Institute of Sales and Marketing Management * Member, ifs School of Finance

Boards

* Editorial Board, Journal of Structured Finance * Editorial Advisory Board, Qualitative Research in Financial Markets * Editorial Board, Securities and Investment Review

Selected bibliography

Choudhry is author of numerous books, some of which have been translated into Chinese and Japanese: * ''The Bond and Money Markets: Strategy, Trading, Analysis'' (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001) * ''The REPO Handbook'' (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002) * (with Frank J Fabozzi; Steven V Mann;''The Global Money Markets '' Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, 2002 In 784 WorldCat libraries WorldCat
* (with Frank J Fabozzi;) ''The Handbook of European Fixed Income Securities (with

Frank Fabozzi Frank J. Fabozzi is an American economist, educator, writer, and investor, currently Professor of Practice at The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and a Member of Edhec Risk Institute. He was previously a Professor of Finance at EDHE ...

)'' (John Wiley, 2004) * ''Structured Credit Products: Credit Derivatives and Synthetic Securitisation'' (John Wiley, 2004), 2nd ed. 3rd ed. 2011 *''An Introduction to Credit Derivatives'', 2004, Butterworth- Heinemann, **Review, The RMA Journal – 1 November 2004 * ''Analysing and Interpreting the Yield Curve'' (Wiley Asia, 2004) * ''The Money Markets Handbook'' (Wiley Asia, 2004) * ''Fixed-income securities and derivatives handbook: Analysis and valuation.'' Princeton, NJ: Bloomberg Press. 2005 In 623 WorldCat libraries WorldCat
* ''The Credit Default Swap Basis'' (Bloomberg Press, 2006) * ''Bank Asset and Liability Management'' (Wiley Asia, 2007) * ''Capital Market Instruments, 3rd edition'' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010) * (with Suleman Baig)'' The Mechanics of Securitization: A Practical Guide to Structuring and Closing Asset-Backed Security Transactions.'' Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Choudhry, Moorad Living people Year of birth missing (living people) British Muslims British people of Bangladeshi descent British businesspeople People from Surrey People educated at Claremont Fan Court School Alumni of the University of Westminster Alumni of the University of Reading Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of Bayes Business School