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Andy Kaufmann

Head of FX and rates structuring

: Andy Kaufmann is Head of FX and Rates Structuring at NatWest Markets. He has 30 years of experience working with corporate and institutional customers having held senior FX roles at UBS, Barclays Capital and Merrill Lynch. Andy has led teams based in London, Zurich, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and Tokyo. Prior to re-joining NatWest in 2020, he was a founding partner of Maven Global, a consulting firm focused on designing and executing hedging strategies for corporates. Andy brought to market the “Merrill Lynch Currency Overlay Basket Note”, issue 9 of which was the largest issue linked to a single index in Wall Street history, and later at Barclays, Andy developed and launched both the Intelligent Carry Index, a forerunner in the FX Index space and the European Borrowing Unit, described in the Financial Times at the world’s first zero interest rate currency. Andy holds an MPhil degree in Economic Theory and Econometrics and an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University.

Conference FX Markets Europe

11/19/2026 | 11:15 - 11:45