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Alasdair Haynes
Haynes’ controversial move paid
off when just three weeks after its
implementation, Aquis reported
its market share had more than
doubled from 0.47% to over 1%.
Speaking to The TRADE in sum-
mer this year, Haynes explained
the next shift for Aquis is towards
the London Stock Exchange’s
Turquoise in 2013, having built his
career at UBS over 16 years, hold-
ing several senior positions from
managing director of equities to
chief executive officer of UBS MTF.
In 2016, Turquoise announced
the rebranding of its block trading
“Haynes’ controversial move paid off when just
three weeks after its implementation, Aquis
reported its market share had more than doubled
from 0.47% to over 1%.”
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services as part of a partnership
with industry led initiative, Plato
Partnership. Under Barnes’ lead-
ership Turquoise Plato has seen
tremendous growth, with a third of
the €6 billion that has been traded
in the two years since Turquoise’s
launch, occurring in the month im-
mediately after the announcement
of the partnership.
Speaking to The TRADE in
September this year, Barnes said:
“We are listening and implement-
ing innovation and from our view,
innovation is about more than just
ideas, it’s about execution.”
Barnes has been heavily involved
with industry associations and
thought leadership, having served as
chairman of the Securities Trading
Committee of the London Invest-
ment Banking Association between
2004 and 2009. He has held several
non-executive director roles for
NetOTC, BIPB and the Chartered
Institute for Securities and Invest-
ment. Barnes holds a PhD from
the University of Cambridge and a
bachelor’s degree from Harvard.
Fabien Oreve
Fabien Oreve is one of the most
well-known faces in the buy-side
technology, following the launch of
Aquis Technologies.
“Technology is certainly a
growth area, but we do not expect
the growth in market share and
increase in users to slow down,
and although it took a long time for
Aquis to get to this stage, there is
much more to come from ‘little old
Aquis’,” Haynes said.
Robert Barnes
Robert Barnes has worked his way
up the career ladder to become
chief executive officer of one the
largest block trading venues in
Europe, Turquoise Plato. He joined
Robert Barnes
Winter 2016
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