Kayra Uygun

Kayra Uygun is a Turkish quantitative finance professional based in London. He was a 2017 International Mathematical Olympiad bronze medallist and silver medallist at the 2017 Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, and studied Mathematics at the University of Oxford (2018-2022) as an Ahmet Ertegun Scholar. His career spans London financial institutions: a 2021 trading internship at derivatives market maker Mako Trading, then 2022-2026 at Morgan Stanley on the Macro Flow Rates Desk as a strategist/Associate, and from 2026 a Quantitative Strategist role at Capula Investment Management LLP, a London fixed-income hedge fund. Earlier internships were in Turkey at VakifBank, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, and Koc Holding. He holds the CFA Institute Investment Foundations Certificate and has passed CFA Program Level I.

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. LinkedIn-index enrichment records a real internship (Trading Intern, Mako Trading, 2021) and a quantitative role (Quantitative Strategist, Capula Investment Management LLP, 2026-) held by an identity corroborated by primary sources - the TUBITAK olympiad alumni page (IMO 2017 Bronze, Oxford Mathematics) and the linkedin.com/in/kayrauygun profile carrying the same Oxford education and London location. Caveat: the role list itself is LinkedIn-index enrichment, not an independent primary-source confirmation, so the roles are supported by a single (indexed) source. Employer classification: Capula is a London-based alternative fixed-income asset manager/hedge fund (per its own site) and Mako is a UK derivatives market maker (per its own site) - both genuinely operate in quantitative finance; no employer name containing 'quant' was relied upon. 2022-2026 Morgan Stanley 'Macro Flow Rates Desk Strats' is a bank quant-strategy role, also in quantitative finance.
• Awarded the Oxford University Ahmet Ertegun Scholarship for 2018-2022, the four years overlapping his Oxford Mathematics degree - a named, competitive scholarship rather than a general admission.
• Career path runs through London's financial centre: Morgan Stanley Macro Flow Rates Desk Strats (2022-2026), then Capula Investment Management in the London Area (2026-), after a 2021 UK trading internship at Mako Trading.
• Olympiad record spans four years (2015-2017): national silver, two Balkan medals (bronze 2016, silver 2017), and IMO bronze in 2017 - a sustained competition-mathematics trajectory rather than a single result.
• Holds the CFA Institute Investment Foundations Certificate (awarded 9 Feb 2022, certificate no. 95341888) and has passed CFA Program Level I - finance-credential signals dated before his move to Capula.
• Early internships span Turkish finance and policy institutions - VakifBank Treasury (2019), Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Research (2020-2021), and Koc Holding Finance (2021) - all in Ankara or Istanbul, before his UK roles.
• Capula describes itself as an alternative global asset manager founded in 2005, celebrating its 20th anniversary; it is a London fixed-income-focused hedge fund, corroborating that the Quantitative Strategist role sits in genuine quantitative asset management.
• Mako Trading self-describes as a 'data driven market maker' providing liquidity to global derivatives markets and lists Technologists/Engineers/Analysts alongside traders - confirming the 2021 Trading Internship was at a genuine quantitative market-making firm.
• Placed 12th nationally in the 2017 Turkish university placement exam (Lisans Yerlestirme Sinavi) in the same year as the IMO bronze, showing strong standing across both olympiad and exam tracks.
• High school was Ankara High School of Science (Ankara Fen Lisesi) 2013-2017, a standard pipeline for Turkey's mathematics olympiad team.