Matthew Coupe

Matthew Coupe is Director, for the Markets business at Barclays, based in London. He advises the Markets division on future market structure, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of market structure, and engages with politicians, trade associations, regulatory bodies and clients to make sure this is articulated effectively, assists in building Barclay’s commercial response to these changes. Further to this he develops explanatory and thought leadership pieces around Market Structure. He co-chairs the Fix Trading Community for the EMEA region. A regulatory specialist, he is an expert in high-frequency trading and market surveillance in the post-MiFID landscape and their implications for trading desks and compliance departments. Matthew graduated from De Montfort University with a BA(Hons) in Business Studies, majoring in Financial Statistics.