Financial markets research and advisory firm TABB Group has appointed Will Rhode as director of fixed income. Rhode will be responsible for leading the firms fixed income practice, which examines trading, operational and technology issues impacting swaps, corporate bonds, sovereign debt and other credit and rate derivatives in North America, Europe and Asia.
Rhode joined TABB in March 2010 after 14 years as a financial journalist specializing in the risk management and derivatives industry. He was editor for the Americas at Risk magazine in New York and editor of AsiaRisk magazine in Hong Kong. At TABB, he has researched corporate bonds; credit and rates; equity options; centrally cleared CFDs; holistic latency monitoring; alternative emerging market; derivatives; exchange-traded derivatives; MiFID II; post-MIFID market surveillance; hedge funds; organized trading facilities; financial transaction tax; OTC regulatory reform in Europe; MiFIR; fixed income dealers and Greece; consolidated tape in Europe; Russian e-trading; and Asia.
Will has quickly gained an excellent reputation as a talented, insightful and highly regarded industry analyst, says Larry Tabb, founder and CEO at TABB Group. This is an extremely wonderful opportunity to take TABBs fixed income practice forward and help clients navigate their way through the rather complex and still unfolding process of regulatory reform into new trading environments in the US and Europe, says Rhode, who is relocating to New York. “Regionalization will be a major theme going forward, so a strong understanding of local idiosyncrasies will be essential to the practice’s international success.”
TABBs fixed income research was launched in June 2011 and has been used by legislators, regulators and market participant to make strategic and policy decisions surrounding fixed income trading and OTC derivatives reform. The division has researched swap execution venues, central clearing, prime brokerage, fixed income technology, derivatives market data and compliance.
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