BlackRock builds iShares team 05 January 2015New York Reporter: Stephanie Palmer
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BlackRock has appointed Matthew Fowles to its iShares team to focus exclusively on the securities lending ecosystem and to help propel ETFs in to the mainstream assets market.
In a newly created position, Fowles will work to improve the visibility of the ETF project, addressing the challenges of making them a viable form of collateral and improving market processes.
He joins from JP Morgan, where he spent 15 years leading the Collateral Financing Group within Equity Finance.
Fowles will now report to Andrew Jamieson, head of broker dealer and client executive saes teams for iShares in EMEA. The pair have previously worked together at JP Morgan.
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