Morgan Stanley Technology Insights

Date: 6 March 2019 (Wednesday)
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: LTC
Title: Morgan Stanley Technology Insights
Speaker: Charmian Koo and Darren Sun, Vice President, Institutional Securities Technology, Morgan Stanley Asia Limited, Hong Kong

Abstract:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 747 offices in 42 countries.

Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modelling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses — and to our own.

In this talk, our speakers from the Technology division will cover the following agenda:

• Technology at Morgan Stanley
  • A case study of how technology supports equity swaps business front to back
  • A case study of how a data warehouse supports the needs across business lines
• Career Insights
  • Starting your career through the firm's Technology graduate program (TAP)
  • Work experience in the financial services industry
  • Maintaining work-life balance as an athlete

Biography of the Speakers:

Charmian Koo is Vice President, Internal Trade Reporting Applications in the Institutional Securities Technology division. As the Asia team lead of trade reporting, Charmian focuses on data engineering and business intelligence development, and her team supports Risk Management and Compliance on all types of surveillance and regulatory enquiries. Charmian joined Morgan Stanley in 2007; prior to that, she was a Business Intelligence developer in UBS and she started her career as a Technology graduate trainee in Hang Seng Bank. Charmian holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration (Information Systems) from HKUST, a postgraduate diploma in Computer Science from City University of Hong Kong, and a Master of Accountancy from CUHK. Outside of work, Charmian is an active Bridge player and recently won the Silver medal of Contract Bridge Supermixed team at the 2018 Asian Games.

Darren Sun is Vice President, Equity Swaps Trading in the Institutional Securities Technology division. He currently leads a team of 3 members that is focused on building a system to support client position management, and allow financing re-rate opportunities for the global Equity Swaps business. Darren joined the firm in 2015 through the Technology Analyst Program (TAP). Since then, he has been using KDB on a data platform for performant query and data analytics. Darren holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering, obtained from HKUST.