To view the digital version of this report please <a onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onkeypress="window.open(this.href);return false;" href="http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?EID=dd981ea4-4a17-4521-8f2f-5f657256503b">click here</a>. To purchase printed copies or a PDF of this report, please email gloria.balbastro@thomsonreuters.com. Coinciding with the publication of the 2,000th issue. IFR was launched in 1974. Lookin

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: Robert, you took something which wasn’t yours … Robert Gray: What became self-evident during this period that Gene is describing is that if you didn’t have a good swap team, you were at a huge disadvantage. I was blessed as Morgan Guaranty’s syndicate manager to have the best swap team on the street. I think it made a huge diff

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 everybo

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 yourse

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-