Neill Penney, Managing Director and Global Head of Trading, Refinitiv
Neill Penney is Co-Head of Trading at Refinitiv where, together with Michael Chin, he is responsible for the Trading business at Refinitiv. The Trading business provides market data, pre-trade insight, execution capabilities, and transactional workflow solutions for the sales, trading, and research of foreign exchange, rates, credit, equities, and other exchanged-traded instruments. Refinitiv is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries. Neill joined Refinitiv in May 2013.
Neill holds positions on several FX industry committees. Currently he is Co-Vice Chair of the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC); a member of the London FX Joint Standing Committee (FXJSC); and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s FX Committee (FXC). Previously he has been the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee’s private sector representative on the GFXC.
Prior to joining Refinitiv, Neill was Managing Director and European Head of Fixed Income E-Trading Strategy at Morgan Stanley until 2009. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Neill was Head of Product Strategy at FXall and a member of their Management Committee. Before joining FXall, Neill was Vice President at J.P. Morgan where he held several quant-related roles within their FX business.
Neill graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class degree in Mathematics in 1991.