Presenter

David Durst

Managing Director, Bear Stearns Companies, Inc.

David Durst, an FX and Options Specialist with Bear Stearns grew up in New York City and graduated in 1984 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Immediately after graduating, he began work as a point- clerk on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. In 1986 he became a member of the exchange and for the next four years traded oil futures and options both for his own account and as an executing broker. In 1990 Mr. Durst left the exchange floor to take a position as an OTC FX Options trader at Credit Lyonnais in New York. In 1993 he moved to Bear Stearns where in addition to running the New York FX options desk, he also participated in the launch of the Bear Stearns USD/JPY currency warrants listed on the American Stock Exchange. In 1998, David moved to Sydney Australia and took a position as senior FX options dealer at The Commonwealth Bank of Australia. In 2002 he moved to the London offices of CBA and began to market and structure currency derivatives to the European Hedge Fund and real money community. And in 2005 he moved back to New York and back to Bear Stearns where he took up his current position as senior FX options strategist in G10 currencies.

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