Allegra Berman: The voice of experience

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Fifty years of capital markets Jim Amine Samir Assaf Jean-Francois Astier Mandy DeFilippo Jerry del Missier Bob Diamond Tyler Dickson Eric Dobkin Martin Egan Jim Esposito Peter Hancock Guy Hands Jeremy Isaacs Conor Killeen John McNiven Chris O'Malley Vikram Pandit Hans-Joerg Rudloff John St John Paul Tregidgo Matthew Westerman

Allegra Berman, co-head of the securities services business at HSBC Holdings, is a well-known figure in the Euromarkets, having made her reputation in public-sector banking at a number of London firms. She joined CSFB on its graduate programme and subsequently worked for Barclays, UBS and HSBC. Berman was voted one of the top 25 most-influential bond market participants in May 2012 in a poll conducted by Euromoney’s sister magazine, GlobalCapital.

She cites three of her former colleagues as key mentors in her career. Firstly, Hans-Joerg Rudloff, who was chairman and chief executive at CSFB from 1989 to 1994 and joined Barclays Capital in 1998 as executive chairman. Also at Barclays, Berman worked with former managing director Abigail Hofman, who subsequently wrote a monthly column for this magazine for eight years from March 2006.