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The Team

Name Bill Blain
Title Joint Head of Fixed Income
Email bill.blain@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7388

Bill brings 25 years experience of Debt Capital Markets to his role as Joint Head of Fixed Income. Previously, and together with Jim St Johnston, he developed the Fixed Income franchise at KNG Securities. Prior to that Bill was Founder and Head of HSBC’s Debt Capital Markets Financial Institutions group from 2002, and before that spent 10 years with Bear Stearns, rising to Co-Head of the Global Financial Institutions group. He has also spent some career time as a Capital Markets journalist.

Name Jim St Johnston
Title Joint Head of Fixed Income
Email jim.stjohnston@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7387

Jim joined MCC as Joint Head of Fixed Income. He spent the last year developing the Fixed Income Advisory and Execution franchise at KNG Securities. Prior to that he spent 8 years at ABN Amro where he was Global Head of Debt Syndicate with responsibility for Asset Backed Securities, Bank/Hybrid Capital and Emerging Markets. Before that Jim spent 10 years trading at Swiss Bank Corporation.

Name James Berry
Email james.berry@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7396
   

James joins Matrix from agency brokerage MINT where he was developing new cash and CDS trading platforms. His brief at Matrix is to extend our trading capabilities with market counterparties and liquid instruments, while developing new distribution platforms. James has 25 years experience of the fixed income and capital markets.

Name Charles Stephens
Title Corporate Debt Capital Markets
Email charles.stephens@ matrixgroup.co.uk
Phone 020 3206 7289

Charles brings more than 20 years experience of debt markets to his role of Corporate Debt Capital Markets Originator. Most recently, he headed a London-based origination team for Commerzbank, marketing both syndicated loans and bonds to corporate clients in the UK and continental Europe. His previous experience was with Chase Investment Bank, Shearson Lehman and NatWest Markets, including specialised roles in commercial paper, medium-term notes and hybrid debt.