Tim Skeet

Debt Capital Markets Specialist

Tim Skeet is a financial markets expert with more than 40 years’ experience across banking and debt capital markets. He has held senior roles at institutions including Morgan Stanley, Barclays, ABN AMRO, Bank of America, RBS and Bank of China. Alongside his banking career, Tim has served on the board of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and held senior positions with the European Covered Bond Council. He is also a Freeman of the City of London.

January Carmalt

Research and Banking Professional

January began her career in 1999 with Bank of America in Charlotte, NC. From the Credit Products team, she moved into fixed income bond research covering Telecoms and Financials. While in London, January focused on financial institutions bond research until her Director and head bond analyst role at Deutsche Bank. As of 2011, January has worked as a freelance writer.

Moorad Choudhry

Banking and Capital Markets Practitioner

Professor Moorad Choudhry is a non-executive director at two UK financial institutions, having worked in London since 1989. He has experience in wholesale capital markets, treasury, ALM, and balance sheet management. Moorad's most recent role was as divisional treasurer at the Royal Bank of Scotland. He has also worked with Europe Arab Bank, KBC Financial Products, and JP Morgan. He is the author of "The Principles of Banking," which is currently in its 2nd edition.

Richard Comotto

Money Markets Expert

Senior Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading, consultant to the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) and its European Repo and Collateral Council (ERCC). Technical expert to the IMF, Asian Development Bank and Frontclear market development company on money market and repo market development in Asia and Africa.

Farouk Ramzan

Capital Markets Specialist

A thirty year career in Investment and Commercial Banking in London and New York focused on Debt Capital Markets. More latterly Farouk was Head of European Commercial Banking for the Lloyds Group. Farouk now focuses on diverse projects where he can demystify complex financing structures with a much more interesting social impact crowd.

Aya Suzuki

Debt Capital Markets Practitioner

Aya has spent 12 years at UBS Investment Bank. She started as a fixed income salesperson, covering institutional investors in Japan. In her second year, she moved to London and joined the Debt Syndicate desk within DCM, where she spent the following 11 years. There, Aya was in charge of origination, distribution and execution of private placements.