Petra Wikström, Global Head of FX Execution & Alpha Solutions, joined BNP Paribas in 2014. She is part of developing the bank’s pre- and post-trade transaction cost analysis and quantitative investment analysis directed to institutional investors globally. Specifically the team delivers bespoke analysis on topics such as currency benchmarks, hedge ratios and minimising tracking errors and assisting clients who wish to implement a more quantitative currency investment process. 

Petra has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, and held both regional and global roles providing FX and cross-asset quantitative investment solutions to institutional and corporate investors for 7 years at Royal Bank of Scotland and RBS Greenwich Capital, and most recently at Morgan Stanley. She also earlier worked at BNP Paribas, London, in the early years of 2000.