1. MATTHEW T. COLLINS
19 Smith Lane, Somers, NY 10589
(914) 525-6053 Collins.Matt@icloud.com
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EXPERIENCE:
MACQUARIE CAPITAL (New York, NY) October 2014 – May 2016
Director - Head of US Financing
 Manage firm’s regulatory capital reinvestment process. Ensure compliance with Basel III, LCR and other regulatory balance sheet metrics.
 Responsible for enhancing MSG’s cash equities platform via expansion of client product offering to include US Equity Swaps, Tri-party
Financing in addition to Equity and Credit Repo Financing alternatives.
 Integrate Macquarie’s leading global small cap research product with financing platform to generate new revenue streams. Adapt and
manage changes within Macquarie’s financing platform via implementation of new vendor technology solutions.
 Work with firm’s treasury and funding group to ensure optimization of Macquarie’s balance sheet. Expansion of financing relationships
through client education as to strength of capital base and promotion of Macquarie’s single A credit rating.
 Build out US collateral management platform to streamline the firm’s global collateral management offering (internal and external).
 Member of Regional Operating Committee
UBS O’CONNOR (Chicago, IL /New York, NY) May 2000- May 2013
Managing Director - Treasury Management / Senior Trader Emerging Markets
 Responsible for managing O'Connor's Prime Brokerage and global financing business for the firm’s $6.5B AUM / $24B positions in multi-
asset class portfolios across nine major PB providers. Peak AUM $12B with $32B in positions across 2,600 portfolio line items.
 Negotiated financing and trading documentation including Cash PB, Synthetic PB, Collateral Management, Bank Loan facilities, CDS
intermediation, Repo by asset class as well as commission rates for all access product trading.
 Drafted and customized PB, margin lock and term facilities on behalf of O’Connor’s 30 single manager funds with $24B+ in balances in
order to protect investors in times of industry wide stress. Conducted credit due diligence with respect to trading counterparties.
 Daily interaction with multiple touch points at O’Connor’s sell side relationships to make sure that the firm was afforded greater access to
syndicate, talent recruitment and new product offerings made available to select partners of these firms.
 Managed a securities lending and refinancing platform which generated revenues and optimized savings of $3-5 million per annum.
 Core relationships spanning Risk, Margin, Securities Lending, Repo, Swaps, Derivatives, Marketing, Talent Recruitment, Business
Consulting, Legal in addition to various trading desks across multiple asset classes at extensive market access points.
 Team involvement in the installation, implementation and use of software vendors Syncova and Eze Castle.
 Proficient in clearance and settlement, corporate actions and other operational aspects related to running a global hedge fund platform.
 Emerging Markets Trader. Involved in constructing, managing and trading EM portfolio with a focus in Latam. Gross Book size $350mm.
 Managed FX hedges, position level liquidity analysis, industry diversification and portfolio optimization based on risk control and
counterparty constraints. Determined entry & exit price points and managed liquidity impact to achieving said goals.
 Actively traded US & Non-Dollar Equities, CFD’s, Total Return Swaps, FX contracts, US Gov’t and Tri-Party Repo.
 Proficient user of Eze Castle, TradeSmart and Syncova vendor software. Utilized these tools in conjunction with sell side trading interfaces
to produce greatest risk adjusted return for investors.
UBS AG May 1996-May 2000
Director - Trader (Stamford, CT)
 Managed the firm’s hard to borrow securities lending activity for both client facing and proprietary trading desk. Daily interaction with
firm’s senior trading and risk managers with respect to businesses impact on balance sheet usage.
 Responsible for pricing borrow cost on collar structures for corporate clients during the dot.com boom. Ensured the firm’s prop trading
businesses were able to remain hedged/short in arbitrage related securities via transparent pricing and risk assessment of the firm’s cost to
borrow in short positions for convertibles, risk arbitrage, share class arbitrage, options/vol hedging and ADR/ORD arbitrage businesses.
 Instrumental in establishing the marketing of the PB business to prospective clients. Grew existing firm relationships by capitalizing on the
firm’s underutilized pool of lendable securities to HF’s and smaller firms with limited access to traditional securities lending alternatives.
Associate Director - Trader International Securities Lending (London, UK) July 1994-May 1996
 Asia focused coverage of HF clientele looking to employ hedging of long/short, merger arb and CB arbitrage strategies. Advised firm’s
proprietary sales and trading desks of market cost for derivative hedging purposes.
 Grew UBS’s presence in the Prime Brokerage customer facilitation business via existing personal client relationships.
Morgan Stanley & Co. (New York, NY/London, UK) June 1989-July 1994
Vice President - Trader US & Int’l Securities Lending
 Responsible for cultivating and managing a growing segment of the firm’s exclusive relationships in the US Securities Lending business.
 Provided the firm’s proprietary trading desks and HF clients with timely market assessment of borrow implications for deal related
securities as the news was disseminated into market off the news wires.
 Responsible for managing relationships with Mutual Fund, Hedge Fund and Commercial Bank community to maximize MS’s return on
balance sheet utilized with each of the respective clients.
 Worked with firm’s prop trading and sales businesses to provide a seamless execution product on non-dollar denominated securities.
Coordinated pricing levels for stock loan, swap, and execution cost. Primary int’l focus on Asian Markets.
Trader Assistant Fixed Income Division
 Supported Investment Grade/High Yield/Mortgage backed/Municipal Credit and US Treasury prop desks. Rotated through each of the
desks as part of an accelerated program to find the best fit for each trainee within the program.
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EDUCATION: NYU Stern School of Business B.S. Finance, Minor in Sociology New York, NY May 1989
LICENSES: Series 7, 63, 24