Faraz Rizvi

Role
Vice President in Electronic Trading at BlackRock
Location
Princeton Junction, NJ, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Faraz Rizvi

Ownership, accountability, technology and business drive me. Competencies:+…

Experience

  1. Vice President in Electronic Trading

    BlackRock

    Jun 2011 — Present

    Global Fixed Income Execution Platform Lead o Lead, plan, design, implement & enhance electronification of global fixed income trading o Provide complete management of the platform by building roadmaps, prioritizing, managing global team & technical resources and engaging with trading desks o Lead & guide expansion of trading capabilities on algo streams, RFQ, ECN/Venues, Axes, Spotting, Countering etc. o Engage with the street to help partners evolve their platforms such as big banks, smaller shops, ECN & standalone platforms o Design, implement & own tools to visualize and analyze prices & executions to achieve best execution o Lead & direct analysis and controls around regulations such as MiFIR, reporting and settlement o Engage in socially & financially responsible aspect of business such as diversity dealer initiatives etc. o Partner & collaborate with third party vendors, L&C, back office, OMS (Aladdin), research & other teams on multiple initiatives Global FX Execution Platform Lead o Lead, implement & manage global foreign exchange execution platform o Provide complete management of the platform by building roadmaps, prioritizing, managing global team & technical resources and engaging with trading desks o Lead, plan & direct initiatives to move more flow to trade electronically via streams (RFS) and algos o Expand utilization of the platform for outrights, forwards & NDF trading NY Equities & Futures Execution Platform Lead o Provide guidance and leadership around rule-based order routing & data analysis o Partner with Aladdin to design next generation workflows & functionalities managers and close supervision of the work o Ensure that correct risk controls & mitigation strategies are in place o Working with third party vendor & brokers to implement industry-wide trading solutions such as algo trading, custom pair trading & market intelligence etc. o Partner with trading research and modeling groups to find & implement cross utilization of execution data

Skills

  • Sybase Products
  • Php
  • Shell Scripting
  • Unix Shell Scripting
  • Sql
  • Spring
  • Microsoft Office
  • C++
  • Java
  • Multithreading
  • Visual C#
  • Trading Systems
  • Perl
  • Sybase
  • Unix
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Microsoft Sql Server
  • Xml
  • Oracle
  • Java Enterprise Edition
  • Directx
  • Linux
  • C#

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