Gaurav Sharma

• Spearheaded the end-to-end set-up of a global credit trading business, covering investment-grade and high-yield products across MENA and SSA markets.
• Established trading infrastructure, including OMS (Order Management System), risk limits, pricing tools, and regulatory reporting frameworks.
• Coordinated cross-functional teams across front office, risk, legal, compliance, and operations to ensure seamless launch and adherence to global regulatory standards.
• Onboarded over 70 clients and counterparties globally within first quarter and a team of credit traders and support staff, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market coverage needs.
• Successfully executed the first trades within 1 months of project initiation, achieving full operational readiness ahead of schedule.

• Market maker for MENA bonds covering over 500 bonds and 400+ international institutional clients.
• Generated annualised return of 27% over FY 2017-2022 with activity more than US$ 3 bln per year.
• Additionally trading equity derivates for HNWI/retail clients and managing risk exposure in house.

DFSA Licensed Senior Manager – Responsible for Enterprise Risk Management (Credit, Market, Liquidity, and Operational Risk) and all Regulatory Reporting including ICAAP/IRAP.

Responsible for enforcing adherence to all risk limits . stress testing and monitoring risk globally across firm

Risk management of DIFC based FI and equity funds along with added responsibility of Firm's UK based Macro fund.

• Market making on GCC/Turkey sukuks for various Institutional clients.
• Managed the rates (duration) exposure of the books within the mandate by trading rates products across markets.

• Setup and migration of MENA Derivatives and the Delta 1 platform at CIMB from RBS.
• Traded ASIAN equities as added responsibility for institutional clients.

• First to launch listed derivatives on single stock and indexes on MENA market.
• Coverage and P&L increased from 20 to 100+ clients with 170% increase in YoY P&L.

• Involved since start of Arqaam capital's market business, set up of all equity , rates and derivatives products.
• Managed MENA equity proprietary book with over 25% annualised P&L over 4 years.

• Worked on development of risk management system across FX and rates structured products.

• Quantitative model development for Asian rates team using VBA/C++ programming.