Delivery specialist in FX ecommerce. Extensive experience gained in investment banking, delivering low latency pricing, market making, trading and risk management capabilities.
Strong background in both business and technology, working with development teams across geographic location (250+). Core strength focused towards business delivery with a pragmatic approach to enterprise architecture.
Cross-asset front-to-back experience in capital markets in both volume flow (FX, Equities & Rates) as well as complex products (IRDs & EQDs). Particular focus on eFX low-latency pricing, risk management, high-frequency trading and timeseries-data.
Primary goal is to solve complex business challenges through technology innovation, management and delivery.
Specialties: Technology Innovation, High Frequency Trading, Electronic Risk Management, FX, eCommerce, Low Latency Pricing & Execution, Smart Order Routing, managing high performing teams, technical architecture
Executive Director, FX Cash & Derivatives Delivery Manager @ Delivery manager of IT front office projects.
People and capacity management ensuring teams are able to deliver.
Using experience gained over the last 10 years in FX and IT to manage a successful outcome. From October 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) London, United KingdomHead of FX Product Management @ From September 2011 to June 2013 (1 year 10 months) IT Programme Manager - eFX IT @ Programme Manager in eFX IT responsible for the delivery of multiple project streams:
* Core pricing and algorithmic risk management
* Liquidity distribution, Order and RFQ workflow through FIX protocol
* Liquidity aggregation, internalisation and auto execution
* Trade workflow and risk routing
Worked closely with the key project stakeholders across all global sites to deliver the next generation of pricing and risk management tools. I am one of the principal architects involved in the redesign of the new eFX architecture. This new architecture has been designed to support a low latency consolidated global view of risk across the three major trading hubs. This in turn is used to drive HSBC's strategy to grow a high volume flow business competing on price and leveraging local market access. From September 2008 to August 2011 (3 years) IT Director - eFICC IT @ Lead project manager responsible for the delivery of pricing and algorithmic e-trading solutions in FX, commodities and fixed income. From February 2003 to September 2008 (5 years 8 months) IT Consultant - eCommerce Global Markets Customer Solution @ Senior developer on Autobahn FX From September 2002 to February 2003 (6 months) IT Consultant - Front Office Interest Rate Derivatives & eCommerce @ From March 1999 to March 2002 (3 years 1 month) IT Consultant - Back Office Operations @ From March 1998 to March 1999 (1 year 1 month) Analyst Developer - Front Office Equities IT @ From November 1996 to March 1998 (1 year 5 months) Technical Project Manager - ADP Wilco @ From April 1993 to November 1996 (3 years 8 months)
B.Eng, Computer Science @ University of York From 1989 to 1992 A Levels, Mathematics @ Sir John Leman High School From 1984 to 1989 Peter Atkinson is skilled in: Electronic Trading, Enterprise Architecture, Trading System, High Frequency Trading, Order Management, Software Product Management, Low Latency Trading, Pricing, Liquidity Solutions, FX Order Management, FX Aggregation, FX Pricing, FX eCommerce, Algorithmic Trading, Trading Systems, Fixed Income, Product Management, Program Delivery Management