OfficeHours

JULY 18, 2023

In the pursuit of attractive equity returns, private equity firms have developed numerous innovative strategies beyond typical leveraged buyouts and take-private transactions. As it happens, this is an industry that has experienced a significant amount of private equity-backed roll-up activity.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 17, 2025

McDonald told The TRADE that he is looking forward to the new role, adding: I’ve been warmly welcomed into the team by everyone and am very grateful for the opportunity to work for Julius Baer. I’m thoroughly looking forward to working in Monaco, focusing on providing excellent cross-asset trade execution to clients.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Balyasny Asset Management has appointed Harrison Chesterton as associate director within its equity finance trading division, The TRADE can reveal. Most recently he served as vice president of delta 1 and equity financing – a role he was promoted to after holding the position of assistant vice president for three years.

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OfficeHours

AUGUST 25, 2023

In recent years, private credit has emerged as an important financing source for corporations of all kinds, especially for private equity-owned businesses with high financial leverage. Under this structure, banks typically provide committed financing to buyers (in this case, often private equity firms).

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The TRADE

MARCH 22, 2024

Head of SIX Swiss Exchange Christian Reuss has marked his last day at the trading venue as he moves onto pastures new. Christian Reuss, Werner Bürki Reuss has been with the trading venue for just over 15 years, originally joining in 2009 as chief executive of a joint venture named Scoach, in partnership with Deutsche Börse.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Macquarie Group has appointed Dylan Kluth head of equites trading for Asia Pacific, The TRADE can reveal. Elsewhere in his tenure at AMP Capital, Kluth served as senior multi-asset dealer and as an equity dealer. Kluth has been promoted to the role after serving as portfolio manager/analyst at the firm over the last two years.

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The TRADE

MARCH 4, 2024

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has promoted one of its own to the role of head of US equity and foreign exchange trading, The TRADE can reveal. Gregory Corrigan has been selected to take up the reins for US equity and FX trading after eight years at LGIM.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This week, both Barclays and JP Morgan made new appointments within their equities trading and sales teams. Doug Polera was appointed as an equity sales trader at Barclays, joining from Credit Suisse where he spent the last 18 years. While at Credit Suisse, Polera most recently served as director of equity sales trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 17, 2024

Citi has named a new head of electronic equity sales trading for the EMEA region, The TRADE can reveal. He joined the bank as a permanent fixture in 2016 as a graduate analyst in its markets division, later moving into equity sales trading in 2018.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 21, 2024

Stifel Europe has appointed Freddie Dolcezza as a new equity trader, based in London. Prior to that, Dolcezza served as an equity dealer for nearly two years. Dolcezza announced his appointment in a social media post, asserting: “I’m delighted to announce I have joined Stifel Europe as part of their Equity Market Making team.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Millennium has appointed Ryan Cain in an equites-focused role, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on his social media, Cain joins Millennium from Segantii Capital Management, where he served as a trader for nearly six years. Prior to joining Segantii, Cain spent nearly four years as a trader at Apollo Global Management.

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The TRADE

APRIL 11, 2024

Euronext has appointed former Credit Suisse sales trader Nathalie Ruiz as head of continental equity sales. Ruiz previously spent nearly 12 years at Credit Suisse, most recently as director, sales trader for Credit Suisse’s suite of algorithmic trading strategies, Advanced Execution Services (AES).

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The TRADE

MAY 16, 2024

A DWS Group senior equity trader has departed for pastures new after over 16 years at the asset manager, The TRADE can reveal. Alex Cotar has left the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank to join Bankhaus Metzler as an equity sales trader, according to an update on social media.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Ashley Watson has joined Panmure Liberum as an electronic equity trader following five years at Mirabaud Group. They announced their new role in a social media post. Most recently, Watson served as an equity trader at Mirabaud, responsible for executing equities and ETFs across both high and low touch.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 18, 2023

Redburn Atlantic has appointed Lisa Christou as head of sales trading, US equities to international. Before taking on this role, Christou served as a US equities sales trader head at Atlantic Equities before its merger with Redburn, which was completed earlier this week.

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A Citadel equity trader and senior associate has left the firm to join Ilex Capital, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on his social media, Jack Boland has joined Ilex Capital in a US equity trading and global equity capital markets role.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. What about VIP ticket sales, apparel licensing, and media partnerships? What is Sports Investment Banking? How many individuals can be team owners?

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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Axis Capital Markets 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 Capital Markets from IBP Markets, where he served as an equity sales trader for nearly three years.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents. And, like most asset managers across the street, its global equity trading desk plays host to a variety of characters, each bringing their own individual string to the wider team’s bow.

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The TRADE

JULY 2, 2024

Senior equity trader at Janus Henderson, Stuart Mair, has left the asset manager after 14 years, The TRADE can reveal. According to an update on his social media, Mair has joined hedge fund and systematic trading platform Schonfeld as an equity trader dealing with long and short strategies.

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The TRADE

JUNE 29, 2023

Liquidnet’s co-head of trading for EMEA, James Kirk, has departed for pastures new, The TRADE can reveal. He departs after spending the last two years as Liquidnet’s co-head of EMEA trading, according to an update on social media. When I joined, we were doing only a handful of trades a day on the execution desk.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Jonathan Tse has been appointed managing director, EMEA head of electronic trading quant analytics, platform and product at UBS, as he moves over from Credit Suisse. In his new role, Tse is set to focus on growing algo platforms, as well as working in electronic trading for cash equities, global FX, and global exchange traded derivatives.

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The TRADE

APRIL 10, 2024

BIDS Trading has appointed Brian Hickey senior director of product. Hickey previously served as head of product at LedgerEdge for nearly a year and a half, prior to the trading platform closing down last year. Most recently, he served as head of cross-asset electronic trading, a position he held for just over three years.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 10, 2023

Cantor Fitzgerald Europe has appointed William Lindsay as its new head of Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) sales for the EMEA region. Most recently, Lindsay served as vice president of equity research – a role he held for nine months. Lindsay joins the firm from Berenberg, where he spent the last two years.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Instinet has appointed Christopher Brown as executive director, latency sensitive electronic trading (LSET), The TRADE can reveal. According to a social media post, Brown joins from JP Morgan where he spent nearly four years as executive director of quantitative investment strategies (QIS).

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The TRADE

JULY 7, 2023

James Kirk has joined independent outsourced trading services provider Tourmaline Partners as managing director, according to an announcement on social media. The post Tourmaline hires former Liquidnet co-head of EMEA trading appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

AUGUST 25, 2023

Pictet Asset Management has appointed Jade Beckmann as an equity trader, The TRADE can reveal Beckmann joins Pictet Asset Management from Bloomberg, where she most recently served as a professional services sales account manager. Prior to that, she held the role of financial products equity specialist at the firm.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Andrew Celotto has joined Kepler Cheuvreux as an equity high touch trader, having departed from Credit Suisse last September. Last November, Kepler Cheuvreux Execution Services (KCx) appointed a new equity sales trader , adding Sophie Egan to its high touch sales trading team, based in London.

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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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The TRADE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Arline Sueng and Rudy Nakache joined the Amundi FICC trading desk as senior credit trader and rate trader, respectively. Both moved to Amundi on 1 September, The TRADE understands. Ashley Watson joined Panmure Liberum as an electronic equity trader following five years at Mirabaud Group.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2024

The TRADE understands that BlackRock has taken a minority investment. Texas has been noted by market participants as an increasingly significant market in North America and globally, playing host to around 5000 private equity-backed firms and 1500 publicly listed firms.

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The TRADE

MARCH 21, 2024

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released findings from an industry-wide settlement cycle consultation, presenting various viewpoints on exchange trading hours in the context of a shift to T+1. The possibility of extending market hours is something participants have expressed concern over in recent years.

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The TRADE

JUNE 5, 2023

Polar Capital’s head of trading Alex Jenkins has left the boutique hedge fund to join rival Millennium later this year, The TRADE can reveal. Her new title is unconfirmed; however, The TRADE understands that it is not a trading role. The post People Moves Monday: Shifts in the trading space appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Read more: Kepler Cheuvreux head of equity sales trading departs Akar has also previously served as an associate, equities strategy, at quantitative investment management firm Winton. The post Unigestion trader joins Kepler Cheuvreux appeared first on The TRADE.

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OfficeHours

MAY 16, 2023

Hedge funds are significant players in financial markets given the size of their capital bases and the frequency of their trading. There have been various estimates of the percentage of equity volume that is controlled by hedge funds. Short selling can increase liquidity by increasing the supply of shares available for trading.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2024

He most recently served as a EMEA and US equity sales and execution trader. Prior to this he worked in equity derivatives for six and a half years, focused on Eurostoxx and sectoral indices. He announced his new position in a social media post. The post Louis Capital Markets trader joins Liquidnet appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

MARCH 22, 2024

Millennium has appointed You Khai Tan as senior trader, based in Singapore, The TRADE can reveal. Most recently, Tan held a global portfolio trading position, which included trading global equities with strategy implementation via algorithms, crossing networks and global portfolio trading desks.

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