Anything For You All: UBS has assigned one of its top traders to head a team building the fixed income 'business of the future'

May 16, 2018

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One of UBS' top traders has a new role at the bank leading a team tasked with building the fixed income "business of the future."

Up until last month, Christopher Purves was co-head of trading for the Swiss bank's FRC (fixed income, rates, and currencies) unit, a business known elsewhere on Wall Street as the fixed-income, currencies, and commodities business, or FICC.

This month, Purves started a new role at the bank as the head of its FRC Strategic Development Lab, according to his LinkedIn profile. The lab, based in London, is a new initiative looking to transform FICC using data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Here's our story: UBS has assigned one of its top traders to head a team building the fixed income 'business of the future'

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