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Managing Director, DDCAP
Stella Cox is Managing Director of DDCAP and its subsidiaries DD&Co Limited and DDGI Limited. Stella and her team are responsible for DDCAP’s Islamic and Middle Eastern clients and market activities. DDCAP’s wholly owned subsidiary, DD&Co, is a leading provider of asset facilitation services to the Islamic wholesale markets. Through DDGI, the Firm has also invested, for its own account, in a number of Islamic financial services initiatives and overseas representation.
Previously she was a Director of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Limited (“KB”) where she had responsibility for Middle Eastern institutional relationships and product development for KB’s Islamic clients. Stella’s team managed assets aggregating over US$2bn and extended over US$250mn of finance to support the trade and commodity purchase requirements of their clients.
Whilst with the Bank, Stella was involved in structuring The Islamic Fund, the first Sharia’a compliant global equity product, launched in 1986. The Fund was subsequently distributed by Gulf Bank, Kuwait and National Bank of Bahrain.
Prior to leaving KB, Stella was a Director of the Al Meezan Commodity Fund plc, a joint venture initiative between KB and Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (Bahrain), that invested in base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance in the United Kingdom and has served on its Board of Governors within the Islamic Banking Group. Stella has been a member of the Working Group established by the Central Bank of Bahrain (formerly the Bahrain Monetary Authority) with the purpose of developing procedures and documentation for Islamic commodity trading. She has also assisted the DIFC Islamic Advisory Committee with its work on selected strategic development initiatives.
Stella represents DDCAP on the Market and Product Development Committee (MPDC) of the International Islamic Financial Market. Stella is a Member of the Islamic Financial Services Board Task Force on Markets and Instruments for Sharia’a Compliant Liquidity Management and is a member of the HM Treasury Islamic Finance Experts Group, serving also on the market Standardisation sub-group.
Stella speaks regularly at international conferences and has contributed to many publications including Islamic Banker, Euromoney, Institutional Investor, Arab Banker and New Horizon. She was co-author of Structuring Islamic Finance Transactions published by Euromoney Books and in 2006 co-authored the Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ) jointly offered by the UK Securities and Investment Institute and the Ecole Superieure des Affaires in Lebanon, contributing the Islamic Asset and Fund Management module.
Stella is registered with the UK Financial Services Authority having passed her FSA Registered Representative examination in 1990.
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