Blain's Morning Porridge

Bill has worked in fixed income markets since 1985. He started in the back office at Morgan Stanley, followed by spells at syndicate at Nippon Credit and LTCB before becoming a capital markets specialist and leading originator at Bear Stearns, rising to become head of FIG at HSBC before becoming trying to start a Hedge Fund in 2007 just as the global financial crisis struck. He then became a broker at KNG, head of fixed income at Matrix, before taking the team to Mint in 2012. Bill has pioneered new distribution systems and the "Alternative" non-bank financing market. Bill also spent time early in his career as a journalist at Euromoney and Bloomberg.