FORA.tv Speaker - Tim Skeet

Tim Skeet After graduating as a student of Modern Languages from Cambridge University, Tim Skeet joined the financial services sector in 1981 starting work at merchant bank, Samuel Montagu. He moved into the debt capital markets team at Montagus in 1985, and then went to work for Morgan Stanley in 1987, where he covered UK issuers and was involved with the early securitisation transactions for mortgage lenders and bank capital issues. His career led him on to work on setting up Financial Institution and Sovereign/Agency coverage at Kidder Peabody in Europe before being recruited by Lehman in the mid-90s, where Skeet worked on a wide variety of financial institution transactions. After heading up FI groups at European firms, Skeet moved to ABN Amro in 2003 to help build up their FI franchise and work on the house’s financial institution and covered bond platforms. In 2006 Skeet came to Merrill Lynch as a Managing Director to lead the bank's covered bond activities with in the debt capital markets financial institution team. Skeet was one of the early members of the European Covered Bond Council (ECBC) Steering Committee. He has been a long standing member of the FSA/ HMT Standing group working for a UK covered bond law, and is a member of the ASF covered bond working group in the US, and recently became the UK regional Chairman of the ICMA (International Capital Markets Association).