Christian Neilson

About Christian Neilson

Licensed and respected municipal pricing advisor with trading and sales experience achieving and exceeding targeted profit goals. Negotiated over 800+ municipal tranactions with total par amount over $75 billion. Background includes public finance and capital markets in the areas of municipal, corporate, governments and certificate of deposit. Ability to handle high stress and critical situations while maintaining excellent rapport with industry peers.FINRA Series 50SpecialtiesPublic Finance, financial Advisory, Municipal Bond Pricing, Trading Corporate, Municipal, Government and Brokered Certificate of Deposit Bonds; Hedging & Risk Management; Electronic Trading (Bloomberg TOMS,ETOMS & ALLQ, Knight Bond Point, TheMuniCenter, Tradeweb); Compliance; Due Diligence; Global Market Trends; Complex Negotiations; Swaps; Trading Strategies, Management, business development, analytics, Discount cashflow analysis, Option Adjusted Yield, Excel, VBA, XML, SQL.

Experience

1. Director, Municipal Bonds Valuations

   LSEG

   Sep 2022 — Present · Fort Mill, SC, US

   LSEG Pricing Service provides evaluated pricing on approximately 3 million fixed income securities and derivatives, which includes over 1 million municipal bonds. Daily independent evaluations are generated based on direct and indirect observable trade data, market color and/or fundamental credit research for tax-exempt and taxable investment-grade bonds, high-yield bonds and structured products. Our clients include large-asset managers, wealth management firms, banks, insurance companies, fund administrators, auditors and risk managers.Christian leads the Municipal Evaluations team for LSEG, which prices around a million municipal securities daily. His team of municipal evaluators have backgrounds in Trading, Sales, Municipal Advisory, Evaluations, Back Office, Index and Portfolio Management.

Education

• University of Kansas

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Skills

• Bloomberg Software
• Economics
• Settlement
• Due Diligence
• Credit
• Series 63
• Analysis
• Bloomberg Terminal
• Securities
• Bloomberg Toms
• Hedging
• Credit Risk
• Powerpoint
• Market Risk
• Process Improvement
• Certificates of Deposit
• Credit Analysis
• Valuation
• Risk Management
• Project Management
• Analytics
• Finra
• Financial Services
• Investments
• Trading Systems
• Capital Markets
• Series 7
• Back Office
• Finance
• Electronic Trading
• Marketing Strategy
• Investment Strategies
• Alternative Investments
• Technical Analysis
• Swaps
• Bloomberg
• Trading Strategies
• Public Finance
• Structured Products
• Credit Trading