He later spent five years in New York City as Senior Vice President running Barclays Foreign Exchange and Money Markets in North America.
[4] Within five years the business was transformed into a market leader and profits increases tenfold[citation needed].
In August 1992, he was appointed Treasurer of HSBC with responsibility for all treasury operations of Asia and Hang Seng Bank.
[7] Chris Pavlou has been featured in BBC’s foreign exchange documentary Billion Dollar Day[8] The currency trading documentary was created by the British Broadcasting Corporation on June, 4th 1985 and it features Pavlou as Head of Treasury at Barclays Bank in London.
[9][10][11] He was awarded the famous Freedom of the City of London and thus enrolled in the usual ceremony in Guildhall, where he received a guide to conducting his life in an honourable fashion along with the sealed certificate.