Building Efficient Bond Markets Across Africa
Join us for a webinar to discuss how Bloomberg's technology and services are helping foster a vibrant and healthy African bond market, by promoting transparency and trading efficiency. The event will feature two guest speakers who will outline how the African Development Bank (AfDB) is working to stimulate regional bond markets and detail how the African Domestic Bond Fund is providing ETF investors with an innovative tool to gain exposure to local currency fixed income.
Pre-registration is essential.
Speakers
Abhimanyu Yadav
Head of Fixed Income and Currencies
MCB Capital Markets
Abhi is head of the Fixed Income and Currencies team at MCB Capital Markets. He joined MCB Capital Markets in 2015 and manages multiple strategies, with a focus on the African local and hard currency fixed income offerings. Prior to joining the firm, he was a portfolio manager at MEAG New York, where he led fixed income strategy for the firm’s Canadian fixed income portfolio (US$10bn AUM) and co-managed the credit portion for US fixed income portfolio (US$30bn AUM), covering Investment Grade, High Yield and Emerging Market bond markets. Before joining MEAG New York, Abhi was a Risk Manager and then Credit Analyst at Genworth Financial. Abhi holds a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, is a Professional Risk Manager (PRM) and a CFA holder.
Albin Kakou
Senior Investment Officer
African Development Bank
Albin Kakou is a Senior Investment Officer in the Capital Markets Division at the African Development Bank (AfDB). He is responsible for the new products development, insurance, and financial sector driven public budget support programmes and has led in the design of the Capital Markets Development Trust Fund. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked for Silk Invest (London) as a Portfolio Manager of two Bond Funds. Previously, he was a member of the European Pension Fund Advisory Team at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (London), and an FX Quantitative Analyst at HSBC and Lehman Brothers (London). He holds a master's degree in Quantitative Finance from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris).
Ebru Boysan
Market Specialist Debt Capital Market, Middle East and Africa
BLOOMBERG/ DUBAI OFFICE
Ebru has specialized in fixed income markets for the region since 2008, responsible for localizing Bloomberg’s products, multi-class asset product development and business strategy including Islamic Finance. Prior to this, she managed Bloomberg Sales for Russia, CIS, former soviet republics this is their new name Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Turkey. Ebru started her career in Solomon Brothers New York, as a Debt Capital Markets analyst focusing on sovereign debt issuance and asset liability advisory. Ebru has authored a number of articles – topics include the introduction of VAT in the GCC and the Pakistan economy. She has an MSc in finance from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Ebru also works closely with exchanges, Central Banks and Ministry of Finances on formation of liquidity platforms in local markets in fixed income space.