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The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has appointed April Day head of capitalmarkets. Day has been promoted to the role, following 12 years at AFME, where she has previously served as head of equities. As part of the role, she oversaw equitycapitalmarkets (ECM), trading and post-trade activities.
Jefferies’ managing director and head of US equity distribution in Europe, Guy Trust, has left the bank after nearly a decade to join Daiwa CapitalMarkets Europe, The TRADE can reveal. Trust has an extensive career specialising in equities and arbitrage strategies.
BNY Mellon has made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equitysales and trading businesses. Bianca Gould has been appointed head of fixed income and equities EMEA, based in London. Elsewhere, Kathleen Kinsella has joined BNY Mellon as head of US fixed income sales, based in New York.
BMO CapitalMarkets has appointed Harj Bagria within its electronic trading division, The TRADE can reveal. Most recently, Bagria held an EMEA equity trading position, based in London. Elsewhere in his tenure at Credit Suisse, Bagria held APAC equity trading and electronic sales trading positions, based in Hong Kong.
Axis CapitalMarkets has appointed Lewis Jones in an institutional sales and trading role, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on social media, Jones joins Axis CapitalMarkets from IBP Markets, where he served as an equitysales trader for nearly three years.
Olivia Gassner has joined JP Morgan as VP, equity electronic sales trader following a stint at RBC CapitalMarkets. New York-based Gassner served in the same role at RBC CapitalMarkets for three years prior to the move. The post RBC CapitalMarkets trader joins JP Morgan appeared first on The TRADE.
Chris Robinson has been appointed multi-asset trader at Liquidnet, joining from Louis CapitalMarkets where he worked for almost 13 years. He most recently served as a EMEA and US equitysales and execution trader. The post Louis CapitalMarkets trader joins Liquidnet appeared first on The TRADE.
BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equitysales and trading businesses. Bianca Gould was appointed head of fixed income and equities EMEA, based in London. Elsewhere, Kathleen Kinsella joined BNY Mellon as head of US fixed income sales, based in New York.
Jamie McKenna was appointed vice president, senior global equity trader at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following almost two decades at GMO trading. His expertise includes equities, ETFs, merger arbitrage spreads, equity swaps, futures, options, and FX.
Wematch.live has appointed Grant Davies head of equitiessales for the EMEA region, effective as of 15 May. His expertise ranges across collateral management, ETF capitalmarkets, securities lending, and total return swaps (TRS).
RBC CapitalMarkets has appointed Giles Gleave and Mike Heraty as its newest managing directors, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Heraty is set to take on the role of head of US equity solutions and structured product sales, whilst Gleave has been appointed as head of European equity solutions.
BTIG has made two key appointments including promoting Troy Donohue to head of Americas portfolio trading and hiring Henri Taylor as director within electronic trading sales. Elsewhere, Taylor brings over 20 years’ experience in electronic trading sales to the firm.
RBC has appointed Guy Chalkley as managing director, UK flow rates sales, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Chalkley brings more than three decades worth of financial services to the role, in both portfolio management and rates sales. Before joining RBC, Chalkley spent 11 years at NatWest Markets.
Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capitalmarkets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capitalmarkets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?
Conary’s capitalmarkets career spans four decades, with his retirement paving the way for Kezar Markets’ continued growth plans. Elsewhere in his career, Miele held trading and financial services positions at organisations such as Fidelity CapitalMarkets and the Boston Stock Exchange.
Edgar Castel is set to join Nordea as an equity trader following almost five years at Candriam, as revealed by The TRADE. Castel most recently served as a trader focused on equities (cash and swap), foreign exchange, and listed derivatives. Before that, Green worked in fixed income derivatives solutions at Barclays Investment Bank.
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RBC appointed two former Credit Suisse senior algorithmic trading individuals to join its low touch electronic sales and trading team. Also appointed to the low touch sales and trading team at RBC is Suzanne Webster, who joined as a multi-asset director. He joined from Luminex where he most recently served as head of sales.
billion revenue in markets, a year-on-year improvement, equity revenues were down by 3%. According to Citi, this is down to a decline in equity derivatives which has in part been offset by growth in cash and prime. Within that segment, revenues in fixed income saw a 14% uptick to $3.6 Despite the $4.5
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This means that businesses have to rely on other sources of financing, such as equity or debt, in order to finance an acquisition. For example, higher interest rates can make it more difficult for businesses to access capital for growth or expansion. Culture is a major factor when it comes to employee retention.
Justin Llewellyn-Jones has been appointed chief operating officer (COO), joining from Broadridge where he most recently served as chief product officer and head of capitalmarkets, North America (equities, FX and derivatives). Heffernan will join from Flow Traders, where he has been head of fixed income sales since 2019.
Former Northern Trust sales trader Maddy Davies has joined Liontrust as a trader in its multi asset trading team, The TRADE can reveal. The post Liontrust adds former Northern Trust sales trader to its multi asset trading team appeared first on The TRADE. Davies joins Liontrust following a two-year stint at Northern Trust.
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UBS appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capitalmarkets financing sales Americas, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Effective from 1 September, Salcedo will be based in New York, reporting to Dan Murphy, Americas head of franchise sales. MEAG appointed Lydia Malakis head of institutional sales at MEAG.
Head of EMEA equity trading at Janus Henderson and markets stalwart, Richard Worrell, is set to leave the institution for a sales role at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), The TRADE can reveal. The change marks a move away from the buy-side for Worrell who has an extensive equity trading career.
Periculum Capital Company, LLC (“Periculum”) is pleased to announce it has completed the sale of Central States Enterprises, LLC’s (“CSE” or “Company”) Feed and Bagging Operations located in Lake City, Florida (“Lake City”) to Furst-McNess Company. Periculum represented the Company in the sale of its grain operations to ADM in 2021.
Earlier in his career he held equitysales and trading positions at Cantor Fitzgerald. His fellow co-head will be Nicholas Hemmerly who joins Clear Street from his role as senior managing director, head of investment banking at Bridgeway Capital Partners.
He joined Cowen as managing director for fixed income outsourcing in February 2022, transitioning to commodities specialist Marex as part of the sale of Cowen’s outsourced trading and prime brokerage business at the end of last year. Zurich-based Wanner most recently served as executive director – equitysales trading at Morgan Stanley.
European agency broker and equities research specialist Redburn and US equity brokerage Atlantic Equities have completed the merger of their operations under Redburn’s parent company Rothschild & Co, initially announced on 26 April.
Head of EMEA equity trading at Janus Henderson and markets stalwart, Richard Worrell, is set to leave the institution for a sales role at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). He will join the exchange group as head of secondary marketssales and business development in January 2024, sources have confirmed.
BlackRock selected a former FlexTrade order management system pre-sales specialist for a solutions engineering role on its flagship Aladdin platform. Walker originally joined LSEG in 2018 and has since served as head of equity and fixed income primary markets.
Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side. Previously he worked as an equities and fixed income trader at James Hambro & Partners and before that as a high touch cash equities trader for Jefferies. Whelan joined Pictet AM as an equity trader back in 2016.
Virtu Financial has appointed Simon McGhee in an exchange-traded product (ETP) and fixed income sales role, The TRADE can reveal. Before joining Bluefin, McGhee held an iShares capitalmarkets role at BlackRock for three years. While at Bluefin, McGhee most recently served as a partner – a position he held for 10 months.
This latest appointment follows that of Olivia Gassner, who was appointed VP, equity electronic sales trader at JP Morgan earlier this month. Gassner joined the firm from RBC CapitalMarkets, where she served in the same role for three years prior to the move. Roberts announced his appointment in a social media post.
Smith brings more than 30 years’ experience in the capitalmarkets sector to the role, having worked in various exchanges and regulators, alongside helping develop market and industry standards. He joins from ED&F Man CapitalMarkets, a company he founded.
The bank also noted an overall decrease in equitymarket revenues – citing a “lacklustre environment” during the quarter. In global markets revenues were down 11.7% decrease, while equity and prime services saw a fall of 3% – demonstrating better resiliency in the face of the dip in client activity. versus Q2 2022.
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