Spotlight on Richard Balarkas

Why did you decide to leave Credit Suisse AES for Instinet Europe (IE)?

The short answer is because it sounded easy.

Is there a longer answer?

Basically, when Tony Mackay (IE chairman and Chi-X Global chief executive) first started talking to me, asking if I wanted to take over his role as head of Instinet Europe, like a lot of people I was a bit confused at the time about what Instinet the broker actually was in Europe. There was the Reuters sale (of the firm) to Silver Lake, then from Silver Lake

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Systematic tools gain favor in fixed income

Automation is enabling systematic strategies in fixed income that were previously reserved for equities trading. The tech gap between the two may be closing, but differences remain.

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