The TRADE

MARCH 13, 2024

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.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Trading Technologies (TT) has made three new appointments to its senior leadership team, including chief operating officer; executive vice president of fixed income; and executive vice president of futures and options – all of which will join the firm on 1 January 2024.

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The TRADE

APRIL 29, 2024

Dom Lowres, head of execution strategy and Matthew West, electronic sales trader, at Liberum are set to join Investec in the coming months to set up a new low touch electronic desk. The new desk is Investec’s first low touch offering based in London and comes off the back of increased client demand, The TRADE understands.

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JULY 24, 2024

Chris Robinson has been appointed multi-asset trader at Liquidnet, joining from Louis Capital Markets where he worked for almost 13 years. He most recently served as a EMEA and US equity sales and execution trader. The post Louis Capital Markets trader joins Liquidnet appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MARCH 5, 2024

BNY Mellon has made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Gould joins BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 5, 2024

Jamie McKenna was appointed vice president, senior global equity trader at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) following almost two decades at GMO trading. Boston-based McKenna joined GMO in 2004 as a pricing analyst, and most recently worked in a multi-asset trading role for 15 years.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The petition explains that despite the two closely related rules being finalised on the same day, the SEC adopted vastly different reporting requirements, leading to a contradictory approach to the two aspects of the same underlying transaction – “the short sales themselves and the loans of securities to facilitate those short sales”.

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The TRADE

APRIL 5, 2024

Jefferies has appointed Joram Siegel as managing director, head of fixed income outsourced trading. Siegel joins Jefferies from Marex, where he spent the last four months serving as head of fixed income outsourced trading. Other previous tenures include credit trading roles at both Barclays Investment Bank and Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

MARCH 11, 2024

BNY Mellon made two key senior managing director hires into its fixed income and equity sales and trading businesses. Gould joined BNY Mellon after three years at RBC Capital Markets where she previously served as co-head of equities electronic sales and trading.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Patel was appointed director, central bank sales at RBC Capital Markets, based in London, responsibility for distributing global rates product. The post HSBC trader joins JP Morgan in New York appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Conary’s capital markets 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 Capital Markets and the Boston Stock Exchange.

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The TRADE

JULY 10, 2023

Former Northern Trust sales trader Maddy Davies has joined Liontrust as a trader in its multi asset trading team, The TRADE can reveal. Liontrust recently won The TRADE’s multi asset trading desk of the year award in 2022 at Leaders in Trading.

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MAY 15, 2024

BNY Mellon has today announced the integration of Global Markets Trading (GMT), which will combine the firm’s capabilities in foreign exchange, fixed income, equities and capital markets to provide full-service client provisions.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

“This strategic move focuses on shortening the settlement period at the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) from T+3, three working days after the date of the sale or purchase, to T+2, a two working day period from the date of the sale or purchase,” said Edaa in a statement. “Thus leading to a qualitative leap in the speed of trading at QSE.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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 capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Smith brings more than 30 years’ experience in the capital markets sector to the role, having worked in various exchanges and regulators, alongside helping develop market and industry standards. He joins from ED&F Man Capital Markets, a company he founded.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Edgar Castel is set to join Nordea as an equity trader following almost five years at Candriam, as revealed by The TRADE. Castel was one of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution in 2023, recognised as a budding buy-side talent in the institutional trading space.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cowen’s prime brokerage and outsourced trading business has been acquired by Marex just six months after TD completed its purchase of the business. Expanding our capital markets business also adds to our diversification and to the resilience of our franchise.” TD Bank Group completed its all-cash $1.3

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2023

Barclays selected an internal candidate and a new hire from BNP Paribas to become its new co-heads of G10 FX trading. New co-heads Torsten Schöneborn and Jerry Minier will be London-based, reporting to Michael Lublinsky, global head of macro, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. His next role is unconfirmed.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

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.

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The TRADE

JULY 6, 2023

RBC’s co-head of European electronic sales and trading, Bianca Gould, is set to leave the bank after almost three years as part of streamlining measures across the business. The post RBC’s electronic trading co-head Bianca Gould to depart as part of streamlining across the bank appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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.

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The TRADE

MAY 8, 2024

Wematch.live has appointed Grant Davies head of equities sales for the EMEA region, effective as of 15 May. His expertise ranges across collateral management, ETF capital markets, securities lending, and total return swaps (TRS). “I

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The TRADE

AUGUST 7, 2024

Outsourced trading, though undoubtedly a contentious topic, is something that has been around in capital markets for decades in some form or another. However, an undeniable surge has occurred across the trading sphere over the last few years, with decidedly mixed results. And the number is climbing.

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The TRADE

APRIL 8, 2024

Jefferies appointed Joram Siegel as managing director, head of fixed income outsourced trading. Siegel joined Jefferies from Marex, where he spent the last four months serving as head of fixed income outsourced trading. Other previous tenures include credit trading roles at both Barclays Investment Bank and Credit Suisse.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 29, 2024

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 capital markets role at BlackRock for three years. Prior to that, he was director, head of ETF business development at the firm.

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The TRADE

MARCH 18, 2024

BTIG 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.

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The TRADE

APRIL 26, 2024

Head of execution strategy and an electronic sales trader at Liberum are set to up sticks to join Investec, The TRADE can reveal. Dom Lowres and Matt West Dom Lowres, head of execution strategy, and Matthew West, electronic sales trader, are set to join the firm in the coming months to set up a new low touch electronic desk.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2024

UBS appointed Carlos Salcedo head of capital markets 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.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

New-York based Crawford was previously vice president, municipals trading at Citi having spent a decade with the firm. Read more: Fireside Friday… with RBC’s Hayley McDowell In April 2023, RBC Capital Markets has appointed Charles Liber as its new head of equity derivatives flow sales for Continental Europe, based in Paris.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2023

RBC Capital Markets 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.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 8, 2024

Industry stalwart Dan Hinxman joined Bloomberg as head of European credit electronic trading following almost six years as managing director at TP ICAP. Previously, he served as global head of institutional sales at TP ICAP, and before that worked as head of sales EMEA and Asia Pacific at BGC Partners for two years.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Earlier in his career he held equity sales 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.

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JULY 29, 2024

David Kirk is set to join Millennium, following almost three and a half years at Marble Bar Asset Management where he most recently served as a trader, The TRADE understands. Kirk joins the capital management firm with experience working as a trader on both the buy- and sell-side.

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JUNE 17, 2024

The move follows a Series A finding round of £15 million in 2021, with this latest investment set to fund the firm’s commercial development, including expanding its sales, product and marketing capabilities in the US, UK, Ireland, Singapore and Australia.

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The TRADE

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Kepler Cheuvreux’s execution sales specialist Cherry Albon is set to join Berenberg next year, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Albon has been appointed associate director, senior sales for EMEA electronic trading and program trading, set to join the firm in February next year.

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