Dhaka, Bangladesh · Capital Markets & AI
RABBYz

~ 18 years of grinding in Bangladesh's capital markets — from product development to block deals and portfolio desks to digital trading platforms and Research to Innovation to Strategies...
Now focusing on: building FINTECH solutions to Democratize Capital Markets of Bangladesh through code and passion.

Research & Investment Project Management Capital Market Regulations Policy Advocacy Democratization of Trading & Investment
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Capital Markets Investment Research Deal Structuring AI for Finance Python Automation BSEC ·DSE · CSE Bangladesh Bank NexTor · NexTor 2.0 Capital Markets Investment Research Data Engineering AI for Finance Python Automation DSE · CSE Bangladesh Bank NexTor
About

I'm AKM Fazlay Rabby — First Vice President & Head of Research & Investment at City Brokerage Limited. I've spent nearly one and a half decades across Bangladesh's capital markets: research, portfolio management, banking, and now — the intersection of markets and machines.

My edge has always been treating the market as a data problem: building frameworks others trust, surfacing signals others miss, and delivering analysis that moves decisions — not just decks.

Today I lead a team of research analysts while driving a parallel agenda: automating the workflows that still run on spreadsheets and gut feel — using Python, AI, and serious data infrastructure.

BBA from North South University. MBA (Finance) from University of Dhaka.

18+
Years in
Capital Markets
$484M
Largest Deal
Led on DSE
2,500+
Students in
NexTor Series
1st
Dual-Exchange
Trading App in BD
Career

Eighteen years,
four institutions.

2018 — Present
First Vice President (FVP) · Head of Research & Investment · Head of Strategic Planning
City Brokerage Limited (CBL)
Lead investment research and portfolio strategy. Architected the firm's digital transformation agenda — including the country's first dual-exchange trading app. Manage a team of analysts covering equities, fixed income, and macro.
2014 — 2018
Head of Capital Markets
NRB Bank PLC
Ran the capital markets desk from the banking side — treasury operations, investment portfolio, regulatory compliance under Bangladesh Bank's RBCA framework.
2010 — 2014
Head of Portfolio Management
AB Investment Limited
Managed discretionary and advisory portfolios. Built research infrastructure from scratch. Developed house equity valuation models still in use today.
2008 — 2010
Research & Investment Analyst · MTO
AB Bank PLC
Foundation rotations across corporate banking, trade finance, and treasury. Where the obsession with financial data started.
Landmark Work

Deals, platforms,
and a movement.

2020 · M&A Transaction

Unilever acquires GSK Bangladesh

$484M

Bangladesh's largest capital market transaction executed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange. Led the deal as the country's top-ranked brokerage, handling the block trade mechanics, regulatory filing, and settlement coordination for a transaction that set a DSE record and rewrote what local brokers could execute.

DSE Block Deal M&A Advisory Regulatory Record Transaction
2022 · Fintech Platform

CityInfinity — Dual-Exchange Trading App

First Ever!

Led as Project Manager on CBL's side — the country's first broker-hosted OMS implementation paired with a fully integrated digital trading app covering both DSE and CSE. Shipped on mobile, web, and desktop. Re-platformed how retail and institutional clients interact with the exchange, from order routing to portfolio analytics.

OMS Integration Project Management DSE + CSE Fintech Mobile + Web
2023 · Education & Capital Markets

NexTor — Inter-University Investment Competition

25+ Universities · 900+ Students

Bangladesh's first nationwide, real-time inter-university investment simulation competition — conceptualised and driven under CBL's banner. University students compete live on actual market data, making buy/sell decisions in real time under competitive pressure. Built to bridge the gap between academia and the capital market, and grow the next generation of Bangladesh's investor base from campus up.

25+ Universities 900+ Students Live Market Investment Nationwide
2025 · Sequel · Scale & Impact

NexTor 2.0 — Bigger. Broader. Live.

30+ Universities · 1200+ Students

The second edition of NexTor — expanded reach, sharper execution, and deeper market integration. NexTor 2.0 scaled to cover more universities across Bangladesh, refined the real-time trading simulation engine, and elevated the competition format to make it the defining annual capital market event for university students nationally. The mission: make investing a campus culture, not a post-graduation discovery.

Universities NexTor Series Real-Time Simulation BD Capital Markets
Now

What I'm building
toward.

🤖
AI for Finance
Deploying LLMs across research workflows — earnings summaries, regulatory parsing, analyst augmentation. Real applications, not demos.
🐍
Python Automation
Systematically replacing manual Excel workflows with Python pipelines: data ingestion, transformation, reporting — all reproducible and scheduled.
📊
Power BI Dashboards
Building live intelligence layers over market data, portfolio positions, and regulatory capital metrics — decision-grade, not decoration.
🏦
Regulatory Analytics
Deep work on Bangladesh Bank's RBCA / Basel III capital adequacy framework — CRAR modeling, risk-weight schedules, and capital impact simulation.
📱
Digital Capital Markets
Pushing the frontier of what retail and institutional investors in BD can access digitally — from OMS to real-time analytics to mobile-first UX.
🔗
Data Pipelines
End-to-end data infrastructure: clean sources, scheduled ETL, typed schemas, and reliable outputs that analysts actually trust and use.
Contact

Let's talk
markets.

I'm always open to conversations about capital markets, fintech, AI in finance, or anything data-driven. Based in Dhaka — available globally.

rabby@rabbyz.com
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