User:Luisdelmonte/sandbox

Luis Del Monte joined the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in August 1998 as a bond trader, transacting one of the first trades in the original 30-year bond. Luis was later recruited by John Mack of F.S. Smithers to do risk arbitrage/mortgage-backed securities. The research team consisted of McCarthy-Crisanti-Maffei (MCM, now Informa), with Robert Reid (Reid Thunberg) and Larry Kudlow (CNBC-TV) as economists. Luis formed MaxCor (2000) with Bruce Maxwell to do US government/Treasury repurchase agreement as one of the first government repurchase agreement brokers in New York and for 7 years was the repo broker for Salomon Brothers and John Merriwether. He subsequently helped execute the first asset swap between Citicorp and Detroit Edison in 1999. Luis moved to London in January 2001, to run the Asset-Liability group for RZB-Austria, using this as a springboard to move to the Italian swaps book at ICAP with Michael Spencer. From 1995, Luis moved into teaching, delivering courses at the LIFFE and LSE before being contacted by Michael Bloomberg in 1997 to setup and run the in-house training programme. Less than 2 years later, Luis was asked to give a series of training lectures to the fledgling Bloomberg TV operation and joined the TV operation in November 1999 resulting in the “Luis Del Monte at the Bloomberg Big Board”. This was followed by a 2-year stint with CNBC-TV (Europe) as an economics commentator. In 2007, Luis spent 7 months writing the market research report 'Financialization of Commodities' for the IFR/ThomsonReuters (May 2007-November 2007). He also serves as a regular guest on Bloomberg-TV (London/Istanbul/Arabiya), BBC World Service, Fox Business News, Digital Look-TV and NDTV 24/7.