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Meet Conor McCann, Head of Derivatives Sales at Susquehanna International Group
Tell me a bit about your role and what it involves. I look after the direct counterparty trading at SIG. I work closely with our sales traders who manage the relationships with our direct trading partners. At SIG we facilitate off order book trading with various...
Meet Alex Kieft, Head of Trading at Flow Traders
Tell us about your role at Flow Traders, what does it normally involve? Well, I joined seven years ago as a junior trader. After five years I became head of trading. So now I am responsible for about 40 traders and quant researchers that are working at Flow Traders...
Necessity is the mother of invention: Covid catalysed creativity in capital markets
The idea that market makers, as electronic liquidity providers, are some kind of offshoot in liquidity provision has finally been put to bed during the recent pandemic. The market making community is becoming an increasingly large part of capital markets; a...
Meet the Institutional Trader, Tom Murphy (Maven Securities)
What is a typical day like for you? A typical day for a trader involves a fairly early start. For me, this is just before 6am. I study what happened overnight, particularly in the US and Asia, before the European markets open. So when I arrive in the office, I...
Certainty amidst uncertainty: How the Covid-19 pandemic catalysed a paradigm shift for market makers
Interview with Piebe Teeboom, Secretary General at FIA European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA) Q. FIA EPTA’s latest thought leadership report, Liquidity in the Time of Covid explores how the Covid-19 pandemic changed the role and reputation of...