Keshava Shastry, CFA, is a renowned expert in capital markets and systematic investment solutions, with experience spanning more than two decades. He currently holds the title of Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets at Deutsche Bank's DWS division, where he focuses on assisting institutional clients, including central banks, pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and asset managers.

Keshava's contributions to the investment industry extend beyond his work at Deutsche Bank. He's also a former Chair of the IA ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) committee at The Investment Association, as well as a former Chair of the EFAMA (European Fund and Asset Management Association) task force at EFAMA. Keshava provides valuable insights and assists his clients in asset allocation, efficient implementation, and best execution practices.

Keshava's background includes several high-level positions within the world's top financial institutions. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Keshava held positions as Head of Capital Markets in Credit Suisse's CSAM, Director of Capital Markets in iShares at BlackRock, and Trader at Citigroup. Keshava also possesses strong educational qualifications, having studied MSci in Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College London.

Keshava's expertise includes FX (spot & forwards), Interest Rates, Derivatives (exchange listed & OTC), Government Bonds, Money Market, Arbitrage, Delta One trading, Balance sheet management, ETFs (Exchange traded Funds), Market Structure, Exchanges, MTFs, Trading analytics (pre-trade, transaction cost analysis, etc.), Lending, borrow, Inter-dealer broker, algorithm, Fixed Income, Commodity, ETP, ETN, equities, bonds, fixed income, commodities, synthetic, corporates, credit, high yield, emerging market, loan, sbl, market making, hft, high-frequency trading, cash management, index, passive, active.