Mizuho’s Shibata to lead London fixed income trading growth

Mizuho International is making a push in European fixed income sales and trading, even as much larger players in the business such as Barclays are cutting back. The bank has made a string of senior hires, and Yasuhiro Shibata, the bank’s head of fixed income in Tokyo, has moved to London to become deputy president and head of global markets EMEA.