Mr Richard Comotto
Teaching Fellow
T: +44 (0)118 378 8239
Specialisms: Money Markets, Foreign Exchange, Repo, Securities Financing
Biography
Richard is a Teaching Fellow at the Centre, one of the longest-serving members of the adjunct faculty, who delivers the popular MSc module on short-term financial markets (FX, money markets and securities financing). His special interests are repo and other forms of securities financing. He is Course director for the Professional Repo Market Courses delivered by ICMA, ACI and SIFMA in Europe and Asia, and Director of the ICMA semi-annual survey of the European repo market. Richard also acts as an independent consultant providing research, support and training on the institutional money, securities and derivatives markets to a wide range of clients, including professional market associations, government agencies, regulatory authorities, banks, brokers and information services, both in the City of London and outside the UK. Other interests include collateral management and electronic trading in OTC markets. Richard served for 10 years in the Bank of England, including the Bank's Foreign Exchange Division and on secondment to the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.
