Richard Giles

Richard Giles joined GFI in 1993 and has worked across a number of divisions and products in both Hong Kong and in London, including currency options, energy and credit. In July 2010 he was appointed Managing Director – Head of Commodities and Energy Brokerage, North America, responsible for overseeing all of GFI’s commodity business in North America, including its subsidiary Amerex®. In April 2012, Mr Giles assumed the additional role of Head of GFI’s Fixed Income business in North America, responsible for all areas of fixed income including the Latium fixed income business, single-name credit default swaps, credit indices, corporate and high yield bonds, leveraged loans and structured credit, including index tranches. In May 2015, Mr Giles was promoted to the role of Head of Americas Broking, responsible for all of GFI’s North and Latin American brokerage businesses across all products within the Fixed Income, Rates, Commodities, Equities and Financial divisions of GFI.