Dan Barnes is Head of Europe for Market Structure & Technology. He has spent over 25 years covering capital markets globally as a journalist and analyst, specialising in the trading of cash and derivative instruments within EMEA, APAC and the Americas.

As a founder of both The DESK and Trader TV, he has championed the development of data-led journalism, building out primary research into the trading activity of asset managers and dealers to deliver insights that support their better understanding of the current capital market environment.

Dan has continually driven cutting-edge coverage of market innovation, one of the first journalists to cover predatory trading algorithms in 2004, the need for a European consolidated tape in 2006, and has written for Bloomberg, Risk and Dow Jones. He has held expert editorial roles at Financial Times Group, Informa, The TRADE, and Markets Media, where he was most recently CEO, Europe. In broadcasting, he has appeared in CNN Business and Radio 4.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Language from The University of Surrey.