James Nye is a co-founder of EFT and he acts as Group Managing Director.
James was born in 1961 in Sussex, UK. He studied Theology at Oxford University before moving to the City, where he gained extensive experience as an emerging markets professional during a career which spanned more than 20 years in international banking and finance.
James started his banking career in 1983 with Charterhouse J. Rothschild, moving to California's First Interstate Bank Group in 1984. In 1986 he joined the newly formed emerging market debt trading operation within the Group's merchant bank, which was later acquired by Standard Chartered in the early 1990s. James helped to run the firm's emerging market debt trading and securities origination business. His career spanned debt swaps, debt-to-equity financing, new issuance activity and the development of derivative-based finance.
In early 1994, James became a Senior Vice President of the Wall Street investment bank Kidder, Peabody, in charge of its emerging market euro-security trading and new issuance business, before moving to GML International Limited in March 1995 to join Vuk Hamović as a Director. In the latter part of the 1990's he was much involved in developing emerging market investment funds, in one of which various energy related financing transactions made a natural progression towards the formation of EFT in 2000 with Vuk Hamović and other colleagues.
James lives and works in London.
