The Trade - The Trade Hot 100

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.