Billy Viljoen

Billy Viljoen has over 17 years of financial markets experience, 12 of which he focused predominantly on Foreign Exchange Derivatives. He was head of the FX Structuring desk at Standard Bank (South Africa’s biggest bank) before being appointed to their New York office where he held the title of Head of FX Sales and Structuring. His time spent in New York exposed him to a broad variety of clients ranging from hedge funds looking for trade ideas to capture market anomalies, private investors requiring yield enhancement trades, to multi-national corporates hedging their various FX exposures. During the 12 years specializing in foreign exchange he has developed an in-depth knowledge of identifying and managing FX Risk, as well as evaluating the appropriateness of various hedging instruments that are available to mitigate risk. In 2009, he joined Absa Capital (part of the Barclays Group) as a director on the Structured FX desk and was responsible for the bank’s FX Structuring business across South Africa. He has unparalled dynamic hedging expertise obtained as corporate client advisor and derivative structurer to clients located across Africa, Europe, North America and South America. After numerous years holding senior positions at banks, Billy resigned to form a Risk Consulting firm where he currently acts as advisor and educator to corporate clients and financial institutions on treasury risk management. A key component of his current responsibilities includes human capital development. He is often the featured presenter at various public and in-house workshops on topics ranging from Fixed Income, Portfolio Management to Market Risk management. Before returning to the States at the end of 2013, he co-founded and lectured at an educational company offering Level I CFA Preparatory courses. He currently spends significant time in various countries across Africa as a facilitator of ACI Dealing Certificate and ACI Operation Certificate workshops.