Nikolaos Romanidis

Nikolaos Romanidis is a credit trader, currently at Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking in Paris. He previously traded credit at HSBC (2021-2023, Oil & Gas, Utilities & Corporate Hybrids) and Morgan Stanley (2019-2021, Corporate Hybrids), after associate internships on Morgan Stanley's credit trading and credit strategy desks (2017-2018). He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford (2013-2019) and mathematics degrees from the University of Cambridge (BA 2008-2011; MMath 2011-2012) and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2007-2008). He represented Greece at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. LinkedIn-index enrichment (index-only, not independent primary-source confirmation) lists continuous front-office CREDIT TRADING roles at bank corporate-and-investment-bank desks: Morgan Stanley - Credit Trader, Corporate Hybrids, London (2019-2021); HSBC - Credit Trader, Oil & Gas/Utilities/Corporate Hybrids, London (2021-2023); Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking - Credit Trader, Paris (2024-present); plus Morgan Stanley Associate Internships in credit trading (2018) and credit strategy (2017-2018). These are real trading roles at bank sales-and-trading desks (quantitative-finance-adjacent bank trading), not student programs, insight days, camps, scholarships, or incoming offers. No systematic/algorithmic trading, hedge fund, market-making, energy or crypto trading employer appears in any source. Conclusion left UNRESOLVED because the employment evidence rests solely on the LinkedIn-derived index with no independent primary source, and because credit trading at a bank CIB is not itself a quantitative/systematic role; identity is coherent (Greek, IMO 2006, mathematics degrees, Oxford financial-economics PhD) but is not cross-linked to a primary employment record.
• Employer timeline (LinkedIn profile via index enrichment): Credit Trader at Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (2024-, Paris); Credit Trader at HSBC (2021-2023, London, Oil & Gas/Utilities/Corporate Hybrids); Credit Trader at Morgan Stanley (2019-2021, London, Corporate Hybrids); Associate Intern - Credit Trading at Morgan Stanley (2018, London); Associate Intern - Credit Strategist at Morgan Stanley (2017-2018, London); Military Service, Hellenic Army (2023-2024, Thessaloniki).
• Education (LinkedIn profile via index enrichment): PhD in Financial Economics, University of Oxford (2013-2019); MMath Mathematics, University of Cambridge (2011-2012); BA Mathematics, University of Cambridge (2008-2011); BA Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2007-2008).
• Credit trading at bank CIB desks is a markets/flow role rather than a systematic or algorithmic-trading seat; no hedge fund, proprietary trading, market-making, or systematic-strategy employer appears in any source, so the public record shows bank-desk credit trading, not quant-research or quant-trading employment.
• IMO record (primary source, imo-official.org): 2007 Greece, Silver medal, rank 68 of the field (87.1st percentile), 24 points; 2006 Greece, Honourable Mention, rank 254, 14 points. Two participations for Greece confirm the Olympiad identity.
• Academic profile: listed on Oxford's academia.edu as a Graduate Student at Said Business School, University of Oxford, research interest Monetary and Fiscal Policy; posted thesis models on a monetary Real Business Cycle model with incomplete markets and a macro-finance credit-spreads model. Independently corroborates the Oxford PhD beyond the LinkedIn index.2019