Mohammad H. Ali, CFA

Foreign Exchange (FX)

FX derivatives

Risk management

TRADING

TRADING SYSTEMS

Mohammad H. Ali, CFA

Mohammad H. Ali, CFA, is an experienced finance professional with over 25 years of expertise in FX trading, derivatives, and financial markets. Mr. Ali has extensive experience in trading systems, front-to-back operations and risk management.
Mr. Ali has worked with leading financial institutions such as the Bank of Montreal and Toronto Dominion Bank, where he held leadership roles, including Global Head of Trading for Foreign Exchange and Managing Director for Europe & Asia FX Trading. Mr. Ali managed a team of traders and was responsible for a $500 billion annual FX volume, spearheaded TD’s e-trading strategy and was instrumental in implementing global trading compliance frameworks.
Mr. Mohammad Ali’s expertise extends to quantitative research, market liquidity analysis, and regulatory compliance.

Industry Experience

Education

Areas of Expertise

Keywords

Industry Experience

Bank of Montreal

2025 - Present

Independent Consultant, Subject Matter Expert, FX & Derivatives

Purity Macro

2023 - 2024

Research & Consulting

Purity Investments

2020 - 2021

Principal

Toronto Dominion Bank/ Securities Division

Global Head of Trading – Foreign Exchange

2017 - 2020

Managing Director- Europe & Asia FX Trading

2014 - 2017

Director – Short Term Interest Rate Trading Desk/ FX Forwards.

2009 - 2014

Director – G10 FX & Emerging Markets

2006 - 2009

Vice President – FX Spot Trading

2002 - 2006

Analyst – FX Treasury Operations

1999 - 2002

Education

Ivey School of Business, UWO

2021

Ivey Leadership Program

CFA Institute

2002

CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)

The University of Western Ontario

1998

Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Areas of Expertise

Risk Management & Compliance

Global trading compliance frameworks

Auditing, internal controls

Quantitative Research & Pricing

Automated trading

Pricing engines

Risk management

Front-to-back processing

Expert Keywords

accounting
Asian NDFs
auditing trade logs
automated hedging tool
balance sheets
Bloomberg Terminal
Broadway
central bank actions
commodities
compliance training
cross-asset correlation
cross-currency basis swap curves
cross-currency basis swaps
derivative pricing
digital transformations for trading systems
due diligence
e-trading strategy
EBS
Economics.
electronic trading
emerging markets
equities
European bond futures
European sovereign debt crisis
financial crisis
FX
FX forwards
FX options
FX spot
FX treasury operations
G10
G7 interest rate futures
geopolitical landscape
global macro backdrop
government bonds
income reporting
income statements
interest rate curves
interest rate futures
interest rate swaps
internal compliance controls
investment summaries
macro asset classes
market liquidity conditions
multi-asset trading
Murex
NDFs
order book management
payments
price dissemination
pricing automation
pricing engine
proprietary trading
quant analysts
regulatory reporting
research portal
researcher
Reuters
risk management
sales & execution practices
securities regulations
Settlements
support structures
tabular economic analyses
technical analysis
technical analysis in financial markets
trading compliance framework
trading systems
US Treasury bond futures
user interface
vendors
volatility spikes
whitelabel client algo trading solutions
WSS

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