Chip Bankes

Vice President, Head of Trading
Loomis Sayles & Co.

Chip Bankes is a vice president and head of trading at Loomis, Sayles & Company, where he is responsible for the management of the firm’s overall trading capabilities. Chip has 27 years of investment industry experience and joined Loomis Sayles in 2012 from US Trust, Bank of America, where he was most recently the head of fixed income and trading. Prior to US Trust, Chip was a managing director at R.W. Pressprich & Co., focusing on capital structure sales. Previously, he held senior positions on both the equity and fixed income trading desks at Putnam Investment Management, Jennison Associates and Fidelity Investments. Chip earned a BA in economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MS in finance from Northeastern University.

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Summit Day 1

Friday, February 6th, 2015

08:45 Buy Side Leaders Panel: Setting the fixed income mission statement - What is the ideal fixed income market structure that can promote progression across the full trading spectrum?

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Regulatory reform, shrinking dealer balance sheets, liquidity shortages - these are just some of the major challenges keeping buy side traders awake at night. As the evolution within fixed income takes full swing, this market leading buy side panel will outline exactly how they want to see fixed income markets evolve, and create a ‘mission statement’ for the rest of the conference to follow. During this session, our market leading panel will discuss:

Comply - What can regulators do to help harness liquidity in fixed income markets and ease the burden on the buy and sell side?
Reform - What type of market can facilitate an efficient structure between buy side, sell side and platforms?
Streamline - How must platform initiatives progress to provide a reliable service to the buy side with less fragmentation?
Innovate - How can technology progress to assist the buy side and help them meet their best execution obligations?
Mission statement - What makes the ideal fixed income market model?