Fixed Income Leaders USA 2025

June 09 - 11, 2025

Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC

Varun Pawar

Chief Product Officer ICE

Varun Pawar is the Chief Product Officer at ICE’s Fixed Income and Data Services (NYSE: ICE). In his role, Pawar oversees product development and innovation across entity data, security master data, evaluated pricing across bonds and derivatives, indices, analytics and data operations globally. From June 2021 to December 2023, Pawar headed ICE Data Indices overseeing product development, business strategy and operations globally. Prior to being responsible for ICE’s index business, Pawar headed up quantitative teams at ICE Fixed Income and Data Services focused on improving precision of bond evaluation products and developing new products using a combination of proprietary data, technology, and human capital. Pawar joined ICE in September 2019 after spending 12 years at Bloomberg developing their fixed income evaluated pricing business, BVAL. Pawar headed the BVAL business globally from 2015 to 2019. Born and raised in Bangalore India, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from Bangalore University and master’s degree in Finance and Management from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

Main Day 1 | June 10th

11:40 AM Data Panel: Smart data strategies: How can you harness data integration and analytics tools to consolidate and analyze essential data sets and boost trading decision making?

  • What are the benefits of blending private credit’s long-term, flexible funding with the liquidity and transparency of public markets to create more resilient and diversified portfolios? 
  • What are the potential liquidity challenges posed by private credit’s lack of secondary market trading and which strategies can maintain liquidity without sacrificing returns? 
  • How can private credit step in to meet funding needs when public credit markets are constrained, offering a flexible alternative during periods of economic stress? 
  • What are the tools and strategies to mitigate the risks of limited transparency in private credit, ensuring informed investment decisions? 
  • How can you manage the impact of rising interest rates on floating-rate private debt and explore strategies to maintain credit quality in a higher-for-longer rate environment?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Varun.

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