Carlos Davies

Carlos Davies, EMEA Head of Secured Funding and Collateral Optimisation Trading, Morgan Stanley

Carlos Davies is EMEA Head of Secured Funding and Collateral Optimisation Trading at Morgan Stanley, leading the firm’s regional secured funding and collateral optimisation platform.

His career spans trading, corporate treasury, business strategy and balance-sheet management. After beginning his career on Nomura’s graduate programme, Carlos joined Morgan Stanley in 2018 in Corporate Treasury before moving to the Fixed Income COO team and subsequently into his current financing and collateral optimisation leadership role.

Carlos manages material secured funding and collateral portfolios and develops scalable financing and optimisation strategies across Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities businesses. His work focuses on improving funding efficiency, collateral utilisation and broader balance-sheet performance.

Carlos holds a First-Class degree in Accounting and Finance from Durham University.