Gareth Coltman
Head of product management
MARKETAXESS
Gareth Coltman is one of a handful of technologists that has been
instrumental in improving the search
for liquidity for the buy-side.
BlackRock announced this year
that it was extending its existing
strategic alliance with MarketAxess
with the launch of Open Trading for
European credit.
Coltman has been key to the
development of projects such as Open
Trading, having joined MarketAxess in
April 2014.
Over the past year, trading activity
on the MarketAxess platform within
Europe has grown substantially. In the
second quarter of 2015, volumes from
European clients were up 44% year on
year and Eurobond trading volumes
were up 71%.
Coltman counts ‘being at the
cutting edge of market change’ among
his career aspirations and believes
that more trust and accountability in
the industry could ultimately lead to
better self-regulation.
He is a keen traveller and recently
hiked the Salkantay Trail to Machu
Pichu in Peru. He is also an avid
motorcyclist and scuba diver. n
Guillaume Chauvin
Associate equity trader
THUNDERBIRD PARTNERS
Guillaume Chauvin joined Goldman Sachs group originally back in June
2008, while he was completing his Master
of Science in International Finance.
Chauvin started out working
in Middle Office operations in the
Structured Product Group. Having
completed his degree in 2010, he joined
the sales team where he worked until
the end 2011.
At the start of 2012, he moved to
Goldman Sachs Asset Management and
took up his first buy-side role as a repo
and stock loan trader where he remained
for a further two years. He has been in
his current role since January 2014. n
• Since the Rising Stars list was announced
Chauvin has moved to hedge fund
Thunderbird Partners.
Darren Fancourt
Multi-Asset Trader
SEVEN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Seven Investment Management’s Darren Fancourt oversees a team of two traders
working across all asset classes and currencies.
He is responsible for transaction cost analysis
of all trades and has developed systems and
procedures for straight-through processing (STP) to
monitor corporate productivity.
Fancourt joined Seven Investment
Management back in August 2010 and has been
with the company for five years. He was previously
an equities dealer at Brown Shipley for three
years between 2007 and 2010.
Fancourt holds the Chartered Institute for
Securities & Investment Diploma in Investment
Operations, the CISI Advanced Certificate in Global
Securities Operations, the CISI Level 3 Certificate
in Securities and Financial Derivatives and the CISI
Level 3 Certificate in Investment Administration. n
Jonathan Finney
Equities trader
FIDELITY WORLDWIDE INVESTMENT
Investment group Fidelity saw a strong number of rising
star nominations for this year’s
inaugural scheme across all
asset classes.
However, it was Jonathan
Finney who stood out from the
crowd due to recommendations
and testimonials from the
industry.
Finney has been with the
company for nearly a decade,
starting out at the group’s
London Cannon Street offices
back in 2006.
During his time with the
business, he has traded
European equities and handled
options trades including index
and single-stock option strategies
in addition to a whole host of
futures trades.
It is low-touch trading where
Finney excels, with colleagues and
industry figures alike both praising
his commitment to research,
training and data analytics.
Finney has handled
numerous projects at the
asset manager ranging from
regulatory implementation tasks
to EMS testing.
He graduated from the
University of York with an
undergraduate degree in History
in 2005. n