Andrew has over 20 years of international trading experience in Asia and Australia. He is Managing Director of FRA Blackstone Pty Ltd, a company that provides consulting services to the international financial services industry, and with representatives in London, New York, Sydney, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Mumbai and Dubai. FRA Blackstone has in excess of 20 consultants working within the team. Andrew is currently based in Singapore and spends a great deal of his time in Malaysia. He remains active in the areas of currency, interest rates, equity, credit and derivative trading and marketing as well as operational and technological support providing advice to governments, banks and corporations.

His previous experience includes being Regional Marketer for Derivatives at ABN AMRO Bank in Singapore. His responsibilities included structuring and pricing complex derivative risk management solutions for bank, corporate and government customers as well as training & new product development. These products covered the entire scope of the bank’s suite including Spot & Forward Currency & Money Markets, Non Deliverable Forwards (NDFs) Fixed Income, Forward Rate Agreements, Convertible Bonds, Asset & Liability Swaps, Interest Rate and Cross Currency Swaps, Interest Rate & Currency Options, Equity & Fixed Income Derivatives and Exotic Options. He was the driving force behind the bank’s development of swap trading books in New Taiwan Dollars & Indian Rupee and was a pioneer in the development of the derivatives markets in both countries.

Before joining ABN AMRO, Andrew was the Manager for Australian and New Zealand Dollar Bond Options at BZW, Sydney. His responsibilities included price making, risk management and strategic marketing of Australian and New Zealand Bond options globally. During his time there, he grew the business of BZW to be both the largest Bond option business in Australia as well as the largest within the Barclays group.

Andrew began his professional career at the State Bank of New South Wales (now part of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia) as a Treasury Manager in Interest Rate Options and Foreign Exchange where he gained broad experience in Foreign Exchange, Interest Rate markets. He also has extensive trading experience in FX, Interest Rate, Equity and Commodity Markets. Andrew has been a member of the Australian Financial Markets Association (AFMA) OTC Interest Rate Options Market Committee.

Andrew has conducted seminars in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam. His courses cover all aspects of banking, risk management and treasury & capital market products including option & other derivative pricing, valuation, risk management and trading strategies.

Andrew has conducted training programmes for organisations including Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Securities Commission (Malaysia), Bank of the Philippines (BSP), RAM Holdings Berhad, the Malaysian Derivatives Exchange, Indonesian Banking Reconstruction Agency (BPPN), Development Bank of Southern Africa, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Citibank, CIMB, DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and JPMorgan. He remains an active option trader for his own account.

Andrew holds degrees in Finance, Economics and Psychology.