How BARCLAYS
helps clients
IMPROVE
PERFORMANCE
Matthew Cousens
Managing Director, Head of Equity Execution Sales, EMEA, Barclays
K&KGC caught up with Matthew Cousens who we know from his previous role
at Credit Suisse, and is now the “Managing Director, Head of Equity Execution
Sales, EMEA” at Barclays.
Asking Matthew about his rationale for joining
Barclays he answered;
“Barclays has a unique client offering, with a powerful
investment program for further growth across equities,
including markets and electronic trading. Our Global
Head of Equities, Stephen Dainton, was appointed
in September 2017 with the remit to grow Barclays’
equities franchise globally. He implemented a strategic
plan that is proving successful. Our equities franchise is
one of the fastest growing on the Street as per the first
three quarters of 2018.”
Why should the buy side include Barclays among their
preferred brokers?
“Barclays has proven to be an important execution
partner for many sophisticated buy side firms reflected
by high execution performance rankings and core
algorithmic trading capabilities. Additionally, our
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‘next generation’ algo and SOR platform is extremely
exciting. The new platform is centred around simulation
and advanced signal generation and is built on a
sophisticated experimentation framework.
I am particularly excited about the developments of our
next generation trading algorithms and Smart Order
Router (SOR) which will be live for most European
markets in 2019, and is already live for much of our US
flow. The current EMEA trading algorithm stack was
built in 2012 and has proven to be a solid product,
delivering performance which achieves consistently
high rankings with our major buy-side clients. The
next generation products are master minded by
Daniel Nehren, Head of Statistical Modelling and
Development for Equities. Having previously worked
for both buy- and sell-side firms, Daniel brings an
unparalleled level of knowledge and experience. His
research, with input from various Fintech firms, will
give us a unique way of looking at next generation
algorithms.
www.buysideintel.com
Winter 2018