Barbara Mariniello

Over the past year, world events including the ongoing strife between Russia and Ukraine and daily dispatches from the Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East have increasingly shaped the investment bank's debt offerings and bond issuance. But even in this chaotic environment shaped by "geo-political unrest, market-moving elections, and central bank pivots," Barbara Mariniello, global co-head of debt capital markets at Barclays, noted that it is "more important than ever to be level-headed, and not overreact to short-term market moves."