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Drew Miyawaki has been appointed head of Liquidnet’s European trading desk, as part of an expansion of the firm’s services to institutional investors. read more »

Investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has named Robert Lees head of securities lending trading and Richard Meek head of securities lending relationship management for the Asia-Pacific region – both based in BBH’s Hong Kong office. read more »

Hirander Misra has resigned as chief operating officer of pan-European multilateral trading facility Chi-X Europe less than two months after missing out on a chance to become CEO of the firm. read more »

US-based agency broker Knight Capital Group has made a raft of new hires to strengthen its institutional options sales and trading teams. read more »

Nasdaq OMX Europe, the pan-European multilateral trading facility (MTF) owned by global exchange group Nasdaq OMX, has appointed Dan Smith as post-trade manager. read more »

Agency broker Instinet has appointed four executives, including three sales traders, to its new office in Sydney, Australia, to support its aim of becoming a top 10 institutional brokerage in the country by the end of this year. read more »

David Lester has been named CEO of the London Stock Exchange’s new pan-European trading platform, which will be formed by merging its Baikal dark pool with the newly-acquired Turquoise multilateral trading facility. read more »

BTIG, an institutional broker-dealer, has expanded its London sales trading team with five new hires, four of which are from rival brokerage Pali International. read more »

Mark Goodman has joined Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking as head of electronic services, Europe. read more »

Olivetree, a UK-based agency broker specialising in equities trading, has appointed Jim Cirenza as CEO of its US subsidiary, Olivetree USA, to expand the broker’s business in the country. read more »