Nikos Bellos

Global Markets Trading Intern

National Bank of Greece

• Traded and monitored live positions across derivatives, fixed income, and FX, executing trades for both proprietary books and client hedging flows.
• Priced IRS (Vanilla, CCY, CMS, EBS) and FX options, and gained exposure to mutual funds structuring.
• Assisted in weekly macro market commentary covering global rates, yield curve dynamics, equity markets, and volatility drivers.

Economic Research Intern

Bank of Greece

• Contributed to research supplements on sovereign yields, breakeven inflation, expected rate paths, and financial conditions indices, developing R and Python pipelines for time series processing, decomposition analysis, and visualization.
• Applied NLP and machine learning techniques to ECB policy statements and macroeconomic news to extract sentiment signals for forecasting models.
• Analyzed financial fundamentals, capital ratios, profitability, and non performing exposures (NPEs) for systemic banks and prepared quarterly tracking tables for reporting.

Software Developer

AlphaTerra Capital AIFM

• Built an automation platform for operational workflows, pre trade compliance validation, post trade reconciliation against broker confirmations, and securities clearing process automation, reducing manual processing time significantly.
• Developed systematic trading tools in Python using financial data APIs for signal generation on price action, backtesting of rule based entry and exit logic, and automated performance and risk tracking across portfolio positions.
• Built quantitative screening models for US growth stocks across value, momentum, and quality factors, combined with fundamental analysis of business models to generate investment ideas for portfolio managers.

Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)

BSc, Management Science & Technology · Grade 8.5/10

Major: Operations Research & Business Analytics. Minor: Software Technologies & Data Analysis. BSc Thesis: "Graph Selection and Attention Deep Reinforcement Learning for Portfolio Management" (supervised by Panagiotis Louridas, PhD).

Deree The American College of Greece

Minor in Finance · GPA 4.00/4.00

Stavros Niarchos Foundation & ACG Scholarship

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Summer School · Statistical Methods in Risk Management · Grade A+

London, UK.

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC)

Erasmus+ Exchange, MSc in Economics · Grade 30/30

Milan, Italy.

Member · AUEB Investment & Finance Club

Analyzed commodities markets for the Global Markets team, producing monthly reports.

Undergraduate Researcher · Athens University of Economics and Business

Conducting quantitative research and developing systematic trading strategies.