Mohammed Apabhai

Mohammed Apabhai has worked in the Asia Pacific region for twenty six out of his thirty one year trading floor career. He has been Head of Citi’s Asia Pacific Trading Strategies team for the past seventeen years, having held similar roles at Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley based in London, Sydney and Hong Kong. He has a background in Fixed Income Exotics Trading before moving into a proprietary trading role, trading G7 FX, bond and equity markets in the 1990s.

His role at Citi has expanded to look at opportunities across asset classes. He has done considerable work on market timing, the impact of Central Bank and fiscal liquidity and the exercise of the "liquidity put". He has also worked on Game Theory frameworks for the CNY, the Sino-US trade wars and Trump tariffs, iron ore and a collaborative FX game to control inflation. Recently he has focused on the impact of leveraged ETFs and their impact on the market. He is one of the most widely followed authors on Citi’s platform globally.

Mohammed holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford in Financial Mathematics. He was a founding member of the Advisory Committee to the Shanghai Stock Exchange Index Company and the China Securities Index and helped construct the China CSI300 indices and the indices of the Shanghai Stock Exchange for nineteen years. He makes regular television guest appearances on Bloomberg and CNBC and his articles have appeared in the Financial Times amongst other publications. Outside of work, one of his passions is education and he is often invited to gives talks to High School students explaining some of the mathematics behind his work. He was an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for fourteen years teaching at postgraduate level receiving numerous University awards for excellence in teaching quality.