MD – EMEA Head of Electronic Trading and Market Structure, Blackrock

Daniel Mayston, PhD, FRM, Managing Director, is Head of Market Structure and Electronic Trading in BlackRock’s Global Trading organization in Europe. He also takes the reports of the Market Structure as well as Trading Research teams globally. Dr. Mayston is responsible for overseeing electronic trading initiatives, adapting the trading platform in the light of market structure evolution, and delivering execution research across all asset classes. His role’s mandate includes strengthening the role of quantitative data, modeling, and technology in the trading process to drive execution performance. His research responsibilities include the delivery of cutting-edge transaction cost and liquidity models that combine traditional econometric techniques with innovative machine learning approaches.