Back in the early 1990s, Olivier Osty was part of a legion of bankers and traders to cut their teeth in Tokyo. The four or so years he spent with BNP Paribas’ Japanese equity platform saw him train in what was then of the world’s biggest derivatives markets. Those formative years appear to have set the course for much of his career.
Over the next two decades, Mr Osty – alongside BNP Paribas’ Yann Gérardin, now head of corporate and institutional banking (CIB) – built the French firm’s market-leading equity derivatives business before taking on increasing responsibility in the bank’s global markets business, a division he now oversees.
