2024 European Credit Market Outlook

Aidan, based in London, has more than 18 years of leveraged and investment grade corporate credit research experience. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a director at Citigroup, where he was a trading desk analyst specializing in TMT, basic materials and defense. As a director at Deutsche Bank, he was an analyst covering basic materials and diversified industrials. He was associate director at Duff & Phelps and Fitch Ratings covering emerging markets, property and infrastructure ABS.

Iain Stealey, CFA, is Managing Director and International Chief Investment Officer within the Global Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities (GFICC) group. Based in London, he manages multi-sector bond strategies for both segregated clients and pooled funds. Iain joined in 2002 and previously led Global Aggregate Strategies. He holds a B.Sc. in Management Science from Loughborough University, is a CFA® Charterholder, and has the Investment Management Certificate from the UK Society of Investment Professionals.

Dana El Baltaji is the Managing Editor for Credit in EMEA at Bloomberg LP, a role she has held since January 2021. With over 14 years at Bloomberg, she has led teams across FX/Rates in Europe and Emerging Markets in EMEA. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 2010, Dana was Managing Editor at Kippreport. She holds an MA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut and an MSc in Writing and Cultural Politics from the University of Edinburgh. Based in London, Dana has deep expertise in global credit and markets.

Kriti Gupta is the London-based co-anchor of “The Opening Trade” on Bloomberg Television. Formerly, she anchored “Daybreak Europe.” She has also served as the anchor of “Bloomberg Surveillance: Early Edition” and “Bloomberg Markets: Americas” from New York.

She has broken news and moved markets in interviews with global central bankers, energy and finance ministers as well as some of corporate America’s biggest CEO’s. Kriti also contributes markets and field reporting throughout the day as a correspondent notably covering surging oil prices after the war in Ukraine from Houston, rail strikes, former President Trump’s Manhattan arraignment, and the Brooklyn subway shooting.

Kriti began her career with Bloomberg in September 2018. After covering the US-China trade war, Covid-19 pandemic and 2020 election, she led coverage and macro commentary for Markets Live, Bloomberg’s go-to traders’ blog. She was also a weekly columnist and served as an audio squawk for trading floors around the world.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, Kriti worked in equity research, serving some of the largest hedge funds on Wall Street. She graduated from the University of Virginia.

Tanvir Sandhu, Chief Global Derivatives Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, writes research and forward-looking ideas on global volatility across asset classes. The research is available at BI VOLA <GO>, the volatility dashboard, on the Bloomberg terminal. ‘All Options Considered’ is Tanvir’s podcast with insights into global macro and volatility. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he gained experience from positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in London. He graduated from the University of Oxford and has an academic background in mathematics. Tanvir is a guest lecturer at the University of Oxford.

Jeroen, based in London, has more than 20 years of experience covering the financial services sectors. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a sell-side credit analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as covering European banks and insurers. Before that, he held research analyst positions at Barclays, HSBC Asset Management, Fitch Ratings and Fox-Pitt, Kelton. He holds a masters degree in financial economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.