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Hugh Clark is a trading expert with a career spanning multiple asset classes and both buy-side and sell-side roles. He spent 18 years as CIO responsible for strategies and trading at a boutique FX hedge fund. In recent years he operated as a leading expert on market abuse and trade surveillance advising tier 1 banks on detection strategy and system design.

Since 2016, Mr. Clark has acted as an expert advisor to major global banks for meeting regulatory targets on market abuse and trade surveillance in all asset classes, including the validation and calibration of the “Trading Hub” system and the design of tactical controls for abuse detection. His areas of focus included the full scope of market malpractice including spoofing, cross-product spoofing, wash trading, benchmark manipulation, front running, insider trading, ramping and stop hunting.


Mr. Clark was co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Arbiter, an FX hedge fund covering spot, forwards and derivatives across global foreign exchange markets including both G10 and EM FX. At its peak he managed over USD2 billion, and was responsible for both trading strategies and their execution, as well trading system design. Arbiter won industry performance awards from both Lipper and HFR.


Prior to his time in the hedge fund industry, Mr. Clark specialized in equity derivatives, spending five years as Head of Global Derivatives Research at Baring Securities and four years as Head of Structured Derivatives and Trading at Inverlat International Limited. He had extensive experience in derivative markets globally with particular focus on Japan and Latin American opportunities.

EXPERTISE


 

G10 and EM FX Spot and Derivatives

OTC and Listed Derivatives

Market Abuse

Trade Surveillance

Structured Products

Spoofing

Benchmark Manipulation

Front running

Insider Trading

 

EDUCATION


University of Cambridge

MA Hons in Mathematics

WORK HISTORY


SEDA Experts

Managing Director

2025-Current


Scotiabank

Expert Advisor

2023-2024


HSBC

Expert Advisor

2016-2023


Arbiter Fund Managers Limited

Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer

1997-2015


Inverlat International Limited

Head of Structured Derivatives and Trading

1993-1996


Baring Securities Limited

Head of Global Derivatives Research

1987-1992


Foreign Exchange and Electronic Trading Expert

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Hugh Clark

1185 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

+1 646-626-4555

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