MarketAxess Holdings has appointed Dan Burke as global head of emerging markets. He reports to Raj Paranandi, chief operating officer for EMEA and APAC.
In the London-based role, Burke will lead business and product management expansion for the emerging markets trading business. He will also develop and execute its strategy across hard currency and local markets.
Burke has more than 20 years of industry experience and joins MarketAxess from Standard Chartered, where most recently he was a managing director and global head of credit e-trading. Prior to this, he was a director at Deutsche Bank in Singapore.
Earlier in his career Burke spent more than 17 years with Merril Lynch in Tokya and Hong Kong, leading the ex-Japan high grade and sovereign trading division. Commenting on his appointment, Burke said: “I’m delighted to be joining MarketAxess, a platform that I have been a client of for over 20 years. MarketAxess is well positioned to accelerate the delivery of innovative solutions in emerging markets globally, and I look forward to partnering with all market participants to take our offering to the next level.”
Paranandi added: “Dan brings a wealth of Emerging Markets experience and a valuable dealer perspective to MarketAxess at a time when adoption of and appetite for electronification of the asset class has grown significantly.
There is still much more that MarketAxess can and will do to drive greater liquidity and efficiency for both investors and dealers internationally. I look forward to watching this area grow under Dan’s leadership.”
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