Robert "Bob" Steiner

Updated at: May 21, 2007, 2:15 a.m.

Bob Steiner is Managing Director of Markets International Ltd., and independent company specialising in training in a range of areas related to the international financial markets, treasury and banking. The company also provides advice to finance directors and treasurers of international companies on foreign exchange, money markets and other treasury matters.

Bob was previously senior consultant with Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, working in London and New York as a consultant on reasury management to major US and European companies. He has also been treasurer and fund manager of H P Bulmer Holdings plc and English and American Insurance Group plc, active in currency and interest rate management. As a result, he has been closely involved in treasury management as a consultant and a practitioner. He has also worked in the Overseas Depertment of the Bank of England and with the European Commission in Brussels.

Bob spends a considerable amount of time training bankers, systems staff, corporate staff and others involved in the financial markets. In particular, he personally runs courses for the all the ACI exams — the ACI Diploma, the Dealing Certificate and the Settlement Certificate — as well as courses on Financial Calculations and Repos. He is the author of Mastering Financial Calculations and Mastering Repo Markets.

His academic background is an honours degree in mathematics from Cambridge University followed by further studies in economics at London University. He is an associate member of ACI UK and of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.