Nick Freeman
Capital Market Technology Consultant
Hi, my name is Nick Freeman, and I help sell-side institutions and trading technology firms build, implement and optimise the systems that power equity trading and execution.
My career in capital markets spans over 35 years. I started on the trading floor as an equity trader and market maker at firms including Nikko Europe and Merrill Lynch, where I gained first-hand experience of the pressures, workflows and split-second decisions that define front-office life. That foundation has shaped everything I have done since — because when you have sat in the trader’s seat, you understand what technology needs to deliver and, just as importantly, what gets in the way.
I transitioned into technology in the late 1990s and have spent the past two and a half decades as a business analyst, project manager and product owner at some of the world’s leading investment banks, including HSBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, and RBC Capital Markets. Along the way, I also spent eight years at Fidessa, one of the industry’s most widely adopted order management and execution platforms, giving me deep, inside-out knowledge of the systems that sit at the heart of equity trading.