COMPANY
Our nation’s economy is diverse. Banks and financial institutions run the gamut in terms of size, region, strategy, client profile and more. We’re proud to empower these firms with the choice they require to make decisions based on their own unique needs – and, by extension, do our part to increase efficiencies for all industries and sectors.
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The people behind AFX are fundamental to our mission. We bring the right banking and financial expertise to deliver stable, transparent experiences in the interbank lending market. We are transforming the market today and poised to grow long into the future.
MANAGEMENT
Managing Director, Sales & Liquidity Operations
Scott Woodbury is Managing Director, Sales & Liquidity Operations at the American Financial Exchange (AFX). He joined AFX from Oppenheimer & Co., where he served as a Managing Director with the Government Trading and Finance group and headed the repo desk. Prior to Oppenheimer & Co., Woodbury spent 13 years as a Managing Director of finance on the Bear Stearns repo desk, trading US Treasurys, agencies and emerging markets. He has extensive experience in collateralized trading, cash management, money markets and funding. Woodbury received a BA from The Ohio State University.
Managing Director, Business Development
Rafael L. Marques is Managing Director, Business Development at the American Financial Exchange (AFX).
Prior to joining AFX, Marques served as Senior Vice President of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), where he was actively involved in all aspects of the program’s feasibility and design phases and worked on its membership outreach and expansion into Latin America. He also conducted research relating to business opportunities in carbon sequestration and sustainable forestry management. He was actively involved in the development and implementation of CCX’s international activities and joint ventures.
Marques previously worked as a researcher at the Brazilian embassy in Washington DC, where his responsibilities included analysis of trade-related issues. He was also a lecturer in economics at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Marques attended several Conference of the Parties meetings within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as both a delegate and presenter. He has lectured on the subject of market-based solutions to environmental problems at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois, as well as Brazil, India and China. He co-authored articles on CCX published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society.
Marques is a native of Brazil and holds a BA from Luther College and an MA from the University of Illinois Chicago. He also studied for one year at the University of Nottingham (England) in an honors program.