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As managing director for Europe Philippe Tromp has overall responsibility for FSA's marketing and underwriting activities in the United Kingdom and Continental European asset-backed municipal and project finance markets. Under his leadership FSA has extended the use of financial guaranty insurance to new market sectors including the U.K Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and synthetic collateralized debt obligations. He is a member of FSA's Management Committee.
Prior to joining FSA Philippe spent three years at Bankers Trust Company in London where he was managing director of the asset finance group. Before that he was a principal and founding member of The Transportation Group Ltd a financial services firm affiliated with Paine Webber Incorporated. Earlier he was a vice president of Paine Webber Incorporated and a financial attaché to the French Treasury in New York.
Philippe has an MS degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines and an MBA in finance and marketing from Columbia University.
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