Progressing Financial Markets » PFM04

Mark Austen - Richard Balarkas

Welcome to Episode Four of Progressing Financial Markets, a podcast series brought to you by Voices in Business and sponsored by IBM.

On today’s show, we talk to Richard Balarkas of Instinet and Mark Austen of SIFMA about the various challenges that the Financial Markets industry is currently facing.

Richard Balarkas is CEO and President of Instinet Europe Limited, the agency broking subsidiary of Nomura Holdings Inc whose services include high touch sales trading, global portfolio trading, algorithmic trading, smart order routing, DMA and commission management services. Prior to joining Instinet Richard was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and Global Head of AES (Advanced Execution Services) Sales responsible for multi asset electronic trading services including direct market access and algorithmic trading.

Mark Austen is European Managing Director of SIFMA, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. His primary areas of responsibility are the European Primary Dealers Association (EPDA) and SIFMA’s work in the international repo market. Prior to joining SIFMA, Mark worked for MTS Group, the European trading platform for fixed income securities, where he was head of Legal and Compliance.

In this interview, Richard and Mark discuss with Keith Saxton of IBM and Mike O’Hara of Voices in Business some of the major challenges now facing the Financial Markets industry in the wake of one of its most turbulent ever years.

A full transcript of this episode is available here.

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