Jul 16, 2012
Knight hires for European derivatives push
Knight
Capital, the US-based broker and
market maker, has hired Ana Concejero as
head of listed derivatives sales in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa.
Concejero
will be based in London and will focus on client development and opening new
markets for the distribution of advisory and liquidity services in the region.
She
will report to Reginald Browne, global co-head of the listed derivatives group,
and Albert Maasland, head of international at Knight.
Concejero
joins Knight having spent over eight years in BlackRock’s exchange-traded fund
division, where she was director and head of LATAM and Iberia capital markets,
leading sell-side relationships in Latin America as well as the asset manager's New York-based
delta one, ETF and Latin American desks.
“Ana
is a skilled and seasoned member of the global ETF community, and she brings a
wealth of experience to our team,” said Browne.
In
May 2012, Knight Capital, acquired the
futures brokerage of financial services group Penson Worldwide. Knight CEO Tom
Joyce said at the time that the purchase would be used to offer a new suite of futures trading products that would fill a “strategic gap” in the services offered to clients.
Reporting by Sophie Pallier