Blythe Masters

Blythe Masters ( born March 22, 1969 in England ) is a British -American investment banker who has become known in the banking house JP Morgan primarily by their occupation and is referred to as the authoritative inventor of the financial derivative credit default swap (CDS).

Masters grew up in southeast England. She attended the prestigious boarding school King's College in Canterbury. At Trinity College, Cambridge in 1991 she earned a degree in Economics ( Economics). Then she began her career at JP Morgan in the area commodity futures trading. After three years she switched to the headquarters to New York.

At the age of 34 she was appointed Chief Financial Officer of JP Morgan - appointed ( 2004, 2007 ). JP Morgan was then a pioneering role in the introduction of credit default swaps, by which the default risk of an exposure has been hedged by a third party and was made tradable as a separate security. This was an essential prerequisite etc. provide the various forms of asset-backed securities, such as asset-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, mortgage-backed securities with positive ratings and make tradable on this basis.

Since early 2009, Blythe Masters leads the Global Commodities at JP Morgan, the investment bank of JPMorgan Chase & Co., and she serves on the Board ( Executive Committee ) of JP Morgan Chase & Co. In 2009, she worked on behalf of the Bank Derivatives for the carbon dioxide emissions trading, as before the financial products, risks for investors should relocate.