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George Harrington

Global Head of Fixed Income Trading
Bloomberg

George Harrington is the global head of Bloomberg’s Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Trading business (FICC), the world’s largest and most widely used fixed income and foreign exchange trading platform. In this position, he is responsible for overall strategy and delivery of FIT and FXGO, which provides liquidity for more than 150 of the world’s leading major and regional/specialist dealers. FIT also provides trading functionality, and straight through processing across all fixed income asset classes including cash bonds, repo, money markets, interest-rate and credit derivatives, mortgages, money markets, and municipal bonds. FXGO provides execution in spot, forward, option, and NDFs.

Previously, Mr. Harrington was head of Product Management for Bloomberg’s Fixed-Income Derivative Trading business, overseeing single and multi-dealer execution services, clearing and legal execution services, and VCON – Bloomberg’s Voice trading network.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, he worked at Tradeweb managing the credit default swap execution business and at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where he worked in corporate valuation.

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Day 1

Wednesday, February 1st, 2017

11:40 Fireside Chat: SEFs one year in- How have they impacted the market?

Since the introduction of SEFs in the US market in October 2013, the market has had the opportunity to adjust to a mandated e-trading model; however there have been some unintended consequences. Kevin has recently undertaken research into the effects of SEFs in the FX market and will be joined by George Harrington from Bloomberg who run one of the leading SEFs in the market. Attend this panel to find out:

Have SEFs improved the FX Landscape?
What impact has the implementation of SEFs had on the buy side?
How are buy side firms developing their relationships with SEFs and CCPs to allocate their flow?
What different FX products are the regulators going to be bringing online?
How are SEFs establishing a footprint in the market one year in?