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Scott Skyrm

Scott Skyrm

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Scott Skyrm is Executive Vice President of Curvature Securities, a broker-dealer specialising in securities finance and clearing. Skyrm is highly regarded as a former salesman, trader, trading desk manager, and global business head in fixed-income, securities finance, and securities clearing and settlement. Prior to Curvature, he was a Managing Director at Wedbush Securities, where he focused on fixed income financing, futures, and rates. He started his career at The Bank of Tokyo, and later at ING Barings and Société Générale. He is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Bloomberg News, Reuters, Market News, The New York Times, and Dow Jones.

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EARLY CAREER

  • Skyrm was SVP at Newedge, where he also served as Global Head of Repo, Money, Markets, and Fixed Income Clearing.

  • He also managed Newedge's report desk USA, repo desk EMEA, FICS desk, money markets USA, and indirectly, money markets EMEA.

  • He also served as SVP and Head of Markets, Repo, and Fixed Income Clearing at FIMAT USA.

  • Before that, he was a Managing Director at ing, where he established a US Dollar repo desk in New York.