Merlin Rajah, Head: Electronic Sales Trading, Absa Merlin Rajah is Absa’s Head of Electronic Sales Trading and has been with the Absa team since May 2020 responsible for all electronic new business and client relationships. Prior to Absa, Merlin spent almost a decade at the JSE as their Business Development Manager for Electronic Trading. At...
Rostin Behnam was nominated by President Trump as a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on July 13, 2017, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 2017, and was sworn in to serve as a Commissioner on September 6, 2017 for term expiring in June 2021. Prior to joining the...
Overbond is a global leader in fixed income data aggregation for unparalleled speed, precision, and coverage within bond trading automation that is driven by our standardized client experience approach and energized by Overbond’s world-class team.
Duncan Higgins, Founder and CEO, Sustainable Trading Duncan Higgins is the founder and a director of Sustainable Trading, a membership network dedicated to driving positive change on environmental, social and governance (ESG) within the financial markets trading industry. Duncan has 25 years’ experience in financial markets, specialist expertise in trading technology and workflows, market microstructure,...
Paris is Head of Quant Strategies for Spot FX & Commodities for the electronic trading team, eRisk, at HSBC. Previously, he has worked at MAN AHL, JP Morgan and RBS, creating systematic investments strategies and algorithms for market making and execution across FX, Equities and Futures markets. He is also Honorary Associate Professor at UCL...
Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer, BMLL Dr Elliot Banks is the Chief Product Officer at BMLL. Elliot is responsible for data science, product development and product delivery, working closely with both clients and development teams to deliver BMLL’s analytics and product suite to clients. Prior to joining BMLL, Elliot held a mixture of commercial and...
Daniel Phillips, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Dan’s current responsibilities are focused on Fixed Income Financing Operations. He joined JPMorgan in 2007 and graduated from Wake Forest University Class of ’07. Dan is a Philadelphia sports fan.
Nick Mannino, Executive Director, Product Development, Extended Enterprise, Securities Services, J.P. Morgan Nick Mannino is an Executive Director in Extended Enterprise Product Development for J.P. Morgan Securities Services based in New York. In this role, he leads efforts to connect with client order management systems and vendor applications by designing and implementing best-in-class operating...
Richard Comotto, Senior Consultant, ICMA Senior Consultant to the ICMA. Richard is author of the ICMA’s Guide to Best Practice in the European Repo Market, its SFTR Reporting Recommendation and Repo FAQs as well as director of the ICMA semi-annual survey of the European repo market. He also conducts training for ICMA on repo...
