eric choo

Former FX Options trader with more than 15 years of banking experience in financial institutions. I have a strong background in financial markets, with expertise in options trading and risk management. Proven track record of success in managing portfolios, generating profits, and implementing hedging strategies. Additionally, I have experience working with a wide range of clients, including institutional investors and multinational companies seeking to incorporate FX or FX Options in their hedging strategies.

Book runner in the Asian time zone for the EUR bloc in 2016, with a focus to grow its footprint with clients in Asia. The bloc performed its best with a year-end income of $45million in 2016, primarily from structured products, of which I was the key person in pricing and executing such deals, in conjunction with the sales team

Selected Contributions:

• Market maker and risk manager, for currency options in G10 currencies, both in vanilla and exotic options, during the Asian time zone. 
• Grew the franchise and client hedging activity via solid partnerships with the sales and structuring team.
• Well adept in packaging various FX option structures to corporates and private bank customers, to take advantage of the extreme valuations in vols (ATM, Risk Reversals and Flies)
• Experienced in trading the other FX products including FX swaps and NDFs, as a tool to express macro views. 

Master of Commerce 

The University of New South Wales (UNSW), 2006

Bachelor of Social Sciences (Hons) in Economics

National University of Singapore (NUS), 2004