About Christian Rasmussen

Christian Rasmussen, Senior Global Finance Leader at UBS with expertise in Treasury Services, Fixed Income Secured financing solutions, and Assets and Liabilities management. Christian Rasmussen  is adept at developing strategies to maximize managing a balance sheet, including interest rate risk, structural foreign exchange risk, and collateral risk, as well as the risks associated with liquidity and funding portfolios. With a background in trading short-term liquidity products during the crises of the last 20 years: • Successfully led the business through 9/11, the ’08 blow-up, ‘15 Greek Debt Crisis, ‘16 Brexit vote, and recently COVID-19. Christian Rasmussen is adept at maneuvering in uncertain times and finding creative solutions to drive revenues while controlling costs. • At the forefront of significant regulatory and market changes ?? Leads with infectious enthusiasm and optimism. High energy, low-ego, collaborative. Highlights: - Led global repo trading business (17 traders) - Reshaped Global repo business from an investment banking to Group Treasury structure - Helped drive adoption of SOFR as LIBOR replacement. Represented UBS on the original Alternative Reference Rate Committee - Helped create and implement UBS’s US Intermediate Holding company - Has met or exceeded budget for the past 10 years. Financial Income Product Expertise (20 years+ experience): - Fixed income repo and securities lending - Traded Fixed income products ranging from US Treasuries to Agency debt - Futures and Vanilla interest rate swaps trader - Total Return Swaps and Bond Forward contracts Strengths: - Challenging the process – It’s in his DNA to look at operations and trading with fresh eyes - Risk Tolerance – He has a high risk tolerance always tempered by understanding the downside - Build diverse teams -- In 4 years, his team increased its diversity from 0% to 50% - Relationship Builder -- Partners with Finance, Operations, Compliance, Risk Management, and Portfolio Manager to optimize various strategies Christian Rasmussen leads by example and inspires the team to a shared vision, listening to diverse viewpoints, empowering people by giving them leeway to make decisions and a sense of accountability.