Bilal Hafeez was Global Head of International Fixed Income Strategy at Nomura and held various senior roles at Deutsche Bank including advisor to the CEO and Global Head of Foreign Exchange Research. Bilal started his career at JP Morgan in 1998 and was rated #1 market strategist by Euromoney and Institutional Investor between 2004 and 2013. He pioneered FX investment and smart beta benchmarks and was an Honorary Visiting Professor of Finance at Cass Business School. He studied Economics at St Johns College, Cambridge.

Macro Hive Markets is an AI-driven agency intermediary within GFI Securities Limited and BGC Group, combining institutional-grade macro research, machine intelligence, and conflict-free execution across FX, rates, and credit. We operate strictly on a matched principal basis — no proprietary positions, no warehoused risk — with every trade executed anonymously in the market. Research, intelligence, and execution in a single workflow, tailored to each client's mandate.