Gareth’s banking career spans almost two decades. From 2010 to 2014 Gareth was Head of Barclays Corporate's £110 billion liquidity portfolio, tasked with the end to end ownership of pricing and structuring of the portfolio to ensure that margins were achieved whilst delivering funding ambitions and regulatory requirements. Acknowledging the challenges of ‘steering the oil tanker’ and managing a non-wholesale portfolio - Gareth was asked to build this function from scratch and roll it out globally, following previous roles in swaps trading and risk solutions.

In parallel to this role from 2012 to 2013, Gareth was Interim Co-Head of the Liquidity Management group (50 FTE and £1bn pa business), sitting on the Global Treasury Products board and worked with treasury colleagues on the adaptation of Basel III/CRD IV within the Corporate Bank - with a particular focus on LCR/Buffer optimisation.

Previous to this, Gareth had senior roles within risk solutions at Barclays, where he collaborated with corporate and investment banking colleagues in structuring and marketing bespoke interest rate hedging solutions to corporate clients.

Prior to his time at Barclays Gareth spent 9 years at Citi where he worked as a Short Term Interest Rate Trader. During that time he made markets and took proprietary risk in G10 currencies against a backdrop of often significant economic turmoil including the Tiger Crisis, formation of the EUR and implosion of the ‘dot com’ bubble.

Since leaving Barclays in 2014 Gareth has been consulting on risk management, principally in liquidity and providing training to institutions such as Barclays, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, RBC, Credit Suisse, ING, Saudi Hollandi Bank, the Bank of England and Central Bank of Ireland.  His area of particular focus has been on the ‘so what’ of Basel III- looking at overcoming challenges in implementing it, it’s impact on Net Interest Margin and ultimately bank strategy.