Since 2019, Javier Serna is co-head of the European flow credit trading desk with direct responsibility for the desk analyst team within the Corporate & Investment banking unit at BBVA. He joined the Spanish bank in September 2008 to set up the European credit research team. In addition, Javier became responsible for the Latam credit research team from 2011 to 2016 and responsible for the European fixed income research team from 2017 to 2019.
Prior to BBVA, he worked for six years as a senior analyst in Morgan Stanley’s credit strategy research team based in London. Javier also spent three years at Lehman Brothers in the M&A division for technology companies in London. He holds an MSc in Finance from the London Business School.