Stephen Flanagan

Stephen Flanagan is an Executive Director in Global FX and Rates at J.P. Morgan in New York. He is the Global FX G10 e-Commerce Risk Manager and coordinates global spreads and hedging risk in collaboration with the Automated Trading Strategies team. Flanagan initially joined the bank in 1979, when it was Manufacturers Hanover Trust in the International Letters of Credit department. In the early 1980s, he moved to the foreign exchange trading desk and began a long career trading the USD/JPY, rising to Head Spot Trader. He often appeared on CNBC, CNN FN, Reuters TV, NHK and was routinely quoted in various newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times commenting on the daily FX markets through the 1990s. He has also worked at Mitsubishi Bank, Paine Webber, Credit Agricole, Este bank and Christiania Bank before rejoining J.P. Morgan's predecessor firm, Chase in 1999. Flanagan joined the FX e-Commerce desk in 2003 and has been actively involved in FX electronic trading as the industry has grown. He is a graduate of Assumption College in Worcester, MA with a degree in Economics.