IFR DCM Milestones Roundtable 2013

To view the digital version of this report please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. Iain Baillie, Asset Match Iain Baillie is founder and co-CEO of Asset Match and has been involved in UK and European capital markets for over 35 years. He began his career at Strauss Turnbull in 1972 working in equities before the Eurobond market started to get people’s attention; Strauss Turnbull was one of the early Eurobond market-makers. Baillie was a trader at Strauss Turnbull...

To view the digital version of this report please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. IFR: Gentlemen: thank you for attending IFR’s Eurobond market retrospective, coinciding with the publication of the 2,000th issue. IFR was launched in 1974. Looking back, it was a momentous year that saw a host of dramatic political and economic events. But what do you recall of your early careers and the environments you found yourselves in? Rene Karsenti: In 1974, I had just...

To view the digital version of this report please click here. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. Cyrus Ardalan: The size and culture of companies made a huge difference. I remember certainly when I was at Paribas it was completely open plan seating, everybody sat out, we had no titles. We basically had a bonus culture where all bonuses were discussed by the executive committee one-by-one; we spent three days going through everybody and questioning who made what and how they made...