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Tatiana Lucke Dell'Aquila

São Paulo,Sao Paulo

Summary

Front-office investor driving P&L across government bonds and secured funding, exploiting relative value, carry, and liquidity. Active in repo markets (Brazil and Mexico), optimizing collateral, funding costs, and capital usage (RWA / GSIB) to enhance risk-adjusted returns.

Operate at the intersection of trading, portfolio management, and treasury, embedding funding and balance sheet constraints into trade design and execution. Own a global optimization platform, systematically improving collateral allocation, financing efficiency, and capital deployment.

Global exposure across New York, Europe, and Asia, contributing to FTP frameworks and firmwide balance sheet optimization initiatives

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work history

FRS

Morgan Stanley
São Paulo, Sao Paulo
2024.11 - Current

Financial Resources & Strategy (FRS) – Bank Resource Management (BRM)

  • Develop and execute outright government bond trading strategies, generating P&L through positioning, relative value, carry, and funding optimization; led redesign of Brazilian sovereign bond strategy and its integration with global funding frameworks.
  • Act as a front-office partner to Portfolio Managers and trading desks, co-developing and executing margin-, carry-, and funding-driven strategies.
  • Own liquidity, margin, and capital optimization agenda, reducing funding costs while improving liquidity usage and optimizing RWA and GSIB consumption under trading constraints.
  • Drive real-time attribution of margin and financing costs, directly influencing portfolio construction, trade lifecycle decisions, and execution strategies.
  • Design and implement collateral and funding strategies across futures, options, fixed income, securities lending, and repo markets, enhancing balance sheet efficiency and recurring P&L generation.
  • Apply deep expertise in margin mechanics, translating structural drivers (haircuts, eligibility, funding impact) into actionable trading and funding decisions.
  • Maintain active oversight of liquidity, collateral, and funding conditions to support opportunistic positioning and balance sheet optimization.
  • Monitor FX (spot and NDFs) as part of funding and liquidity analysis (non-execution role), incorporating carry and pricing dynamics into decision-making.
  • Hold mandate to execute repo transactions in Brazil, actively managing secured funding, collateral efficiency, and liquidity deployment across markets.
  • Execute overnight repo transactions in Mexico as part of secured funding activity, with scope evolving across tenors and strategies.
  • Serve as Product Owner of a global optimization technology platform, acting as intake point for trading and investment requests; coordinate with internal technology teams to define requirements, prioritize initiatives, and oversee delivery of tools improving collateral allocation, funding efficiency, and decision support.
  • Contribute to global initiatives optimizing partially fundable assets, improving liquidity efficiency and balance sheet utilization across regions.
  • Active participant in global Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) working groups, contributing analytical input to funding cost allocation and capital framework discussions feeding senior decision-making.
  • Work across New York, Europe, and Asia, aligning funding, collateral, and liquidity strategies in a global trading environment.
  • Act as bridge between trading, investment teams, treasury, and technology, combining execution-driven mindset with creative balance sheet optimization.
  • Manage and mentor intern, delegating operational workload and increasing focus on strategy and execution.

Intern

Morgan Stanley
São Paulo, Brazil
2022.11 - 2024.11

BRM (Bank Resource Management)

  • Partnered with Securities Lending, FX, and trading desks, as well as risk and operations, to analyze the end-to-end trade lifecycle and its impact on balance sheet, liquidity, and funding.
  • Supported collateral optimization and funding strategies by monitoring portfolio exposures, inventory, and market conditions.
  • Performed P&L attribution and liquidity analysis across fixed income and financing activities, identifying key drivers and funding costs.
  • Collaborated with stock borrow/lending teams to track inventory, utilization, and financing opportunities.
  • Developed and enhanced reporting tools for daily risk, liquidity, and market monitoring, improving decision-making efficiency.
  • Drove process improvements and automation initiatives, increasing accuracy and reducing manual workload.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Actuarial

Universidade Federal de São Paulo
São Paulo, Sao Paulo
2020.03 - 2026.06

Skills

  • Leadership
  • Strategic planning
  • AI tools
  • Communication skills
  • Problem-solving
  • Public speaking
  • VBA

Languages

English
Fluent
Spanish
Intermediate
German
Elementary

Timeline

FRS

Morgan Stanley
2024.11 - Current

Intern

Morgan Stanley
2022.11 - 2024.11

Bachelor of Science - Actuarial

Universidade Federal de São Paulo
2020.03 - 2026.06
Tatiana Lucke Dell'Aquila