FX Education

As CEO of the Corellian group Graeme is driven to make sure the academy products are of the highest quality. He started his career in finance in 1988 working for Bank of America. He has continued to build a solid and successful career utilising a strong ethics driven business model. Graeme has since held senior roles at UBS and Merrill Lynch where he was Managing Director in charge of trading. He is determined that the academy itself delivers a strong and unmatched education platform that can benefit a large global audience no matter what the subject matter.

Chris joins the group of mentors with over 20 years-experience in global markets. From his time at Barclays Capital Markets where he became Chief dealer of the London trading desk and eventually Global Head of Spot he has learnt the importance of education, development and training for existing and new entrants into this incredibly dynamic world.

Chris brings a wealth of experience to the Corellian group. Previously he was Head of Markets EMEA and the Americas for Standard Chartered. In his role he was also co-head of Global Financial Markets, Global Head of FM Sales and Global Head of FX. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Chris was Managing Director, Global Macro Prop at Goldman Sachs and Global Head of FX Trading and Sales for Merrill Lynch.

For thirty years Maurice has traded a broad spectrum of asset classes; his specialist strategy has brought him to the attention of some of the biggest position takers in the world. With experience at UBS and Dresdner as a proprietary trader, and is currently using his economics and technical analysis skills to create daily strategy that is utilised by some of the largest institutions in the industry.

Helen worked in Financial Markets from 2003-2018 managing FX Options portfolios and teams for Deutsche Bank, BAML and Standard Chartered. These trading books ranged from simple vanilla to complex exotics that all carried large risks. She has been heavily involved with graduates and clients across all three institutions, developing their understandings of the technical side of options and how they can be used to enhance their trading capabilities.

Richard Adcock MSTA is an award winning technical analyst and specialises in Candlestick analysis, combining it with momentum and trending techniques to establish both long and short term strategies. Richard has held key roles with Investment Research of Cambridge Ltd, Credit Lyonnais, HSBC and UBS, where he managed both the rates and FX technical teams.

Katharine is a regulatory compliance consultant with expertise in technical areas of the rules such as Conduct, CASS, the Individual Accountability Regime (SMCR) and Outsourcing. Katharine has worked in financial services for thirty years in insurance, banking, distribution, and regulation. During that time Katharine developed a passion for supporting smaller financial services firms because they so often find they are expected to be across a broad range of regulations sometimes to a technical depth that takes time to understand and implement. So Katharine setup Leaman Crellin Limited, to do the leg work and provide practical roll out ready documents in their online shop. Her regulatory compliance consultancy practice specialises in providing practical and proportionate solutions for all sizes and types of FCA and PRA regulated business.

Roger has worked in the Financial Markets as a spot FX trader and manager for over 37 years. Initial spells at ANZ and Swiss Bank Corporation saw him develop his skills covering a broad range of currency pairs including those in the old European Monetary System (EMS). In 1998 he moved to NatWest (latterly RBS) eventually becoming Global Head of Spot FX in 2004 managing teams in Edinburgh, New York, London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Sydney and Hong Kong.