< The 2015 Trading Technology 40: Going with the Flow
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Billy Hult
President
Tradeweb Markets
Last year: 17
In mid-2013, Tradeweb Markets was one of the first to apply to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for permission to open swaps execution facilities under provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. With more than 20 SEFs in the mix — including two operated by Tradeweb — a shakeout is considered inevitable. But Tradeweb has proved its mettle, claiming a 40 percent share of buy-side SEF activity for interest rate swaps at year-end 2014, up from 10 percent a year earlier. “The tremendous work we’ve put into our SEFs has paid dividends, and we have distinguished ourselves as one of the leading players,” declares Billy Hult, president of New York–based Tradeweb. Related to those efforts, Tradeweb has executed more than $700 billion in compression trades, in which investors and fund managers net out their positions to reduce risk. Since pioneering e-trading of U.S. Treasuries in the late 1990s, Tradeweb, now majority-owned by Thomson Reuters, has grown into a leading global fixed-income and derivatives platform. Hult, 45, who joined the company in 2000 from Société Générale and has been president since 2008, is spearheading an effort to crack the U.S. corporate credit market, a stronghold of MarketAxess Holdings (see Nicholas Themelis, No. 15). Last year Tradeweb introduced the first phase of its offering for round- and odd-lot corporate bond transactions in the U.S. High-yield and emerging-markets products are coming next. “We are doing everything to be a real competitor in this space,” Hult says. “We are extremely conscious of the patience needed to wind up succeeding in the right way.”
See also Hult’s profile in the 2013 Trading Technology 40.
The 2015 Trading Technology 40
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Kevin Kometer CME Group | Richard Prager BlackRock | Raymond Tierney III Bloomberg Tradebook | Jonathan Ross KCG Holdings | Charles Vice Intercontinental Exchange |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Chris Isaacson BATS Global Markets | Bradley Peterson Nasdaq OMX Group | Brad Levy MarkitSERV | Dan Keegan Citi | Ronald DePoalo Fidelity Institutional |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| Gerard Beatty Goldman Sachs Group | Gerald O’Connell CBOE Holdings | Brenda Hoffman TMX Group | Billy Hult Tradeweb Markets | Nicholas Themelis MarketAxess Holdings |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| Bina Kalola Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Gil Mandelzis EBS-BrokerTec (ICAP) | Steven Randich Financial Industry Regulatory Authority | Jerry Dobner GFI Group | Michael Liberman BlueMountain Capital Management |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| Bill Chow and Richard Leung Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing | Jamie Selway Investment Technology Group | Brad Katsuyama IEX Group | John Mackay (Mack) Gill MillenniumIT | Jamil Nazarali Citadel Execution Services |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| Robert Cornish International Securities Exchange | Tyler Moeller andJoshua Walksy Broadway Technology | Rishi Nangalia REDI Holdings | Manoj Narang Tradeworx, Thesys Technologies | Oki Matsumoto Monex Group |
| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 |
| Alasdair Haynes Aquis Exchange | Veronica Augustsson Cinnober Financial Technology | Stu Taylor Algomi | Luís Otávio Saliba Furtado BM&FBovespa | Tal Cohen Chi-X Global Holdings |
| 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
| Donal Byrne Corvil | R. Cromwell Coulson OTC Markets Group | Alfred Eskandar Portware | Richard Korhammer SR Labs | Hazem Dawani OptionsCity Software |
