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Being a leader at
BlackRock
Head of EMEA equity trading at BlackRock , Paul Battams , sits down with Hayley McDowell to discuss evolving market structure trends and his top priorities as a buy-side trading leader at the world ’ s largest asset manager .
As head of EMEA equity trading at the world ’ s largest asset manager , no two days are the same for Paul Battams . Despite managing the team of 14 traders at BlackRock that cover equities and equity derivatives across the region , Battams still executes frequently and remains connected and plugged into the market each day .
BlackRock operates globally via centralised dealing desks around the world with local traders overseeing trading and execution in each region . For EMEA , the desk is broad in terms of the products that it trades with a mixture of passive , fundamental active , systematic active and derivatives transactions , meaning at least one segment of the desk is always extremely busy .
20 // TheTRADE // Summer 2021