T. Rowe Price
Rowe Price’s head of foreign exchange (FX) trading, Toby Baker is set to retire from his role at the end of March, after more than 25 years at the real money asset manager.
During his industry career – which spans more than three decades – Baker worked extensively across sectors spanning risk management, currency hedge funds, FX, fixed income and options.
He initially joined T. Rowe Price in February 2001, beginning in the fixed income trading department, where he was the first trader to join fixed income at the firm.
He also serves as a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group and T. Rowe Price International.
Prior to his time at T. Rowe Price, London-based Baker also worked across various FX-based roles, serving as an FX dealer at JP Morgan Chase Fleming Asset Management for more than a year.
Previously in his career, he also served as an FX trader at Daiwa Asset Management for almost five years, where he focused on trade support.
BlackRock
Alexandre Roubaud has been promoted at BlackRock, stepping up as the firm’s new head of EMEA ETF markets.
The new position marks an extension of Roubaud’s ongoing 12-year tenure at BlackRock, having initially joined the firm in 2013 working across broker dealer execution for ETF capital markets, before moving into his most recent role as EMEA head of secondary and options markets for iShares.
London-based Roubaud has worked across capital markets for almost two decades, and prior to his time at BlackRock, spent a year at Credit Suisse as an ETF capital markets specialist.
He has also served in ETF-related roles at BNP Paribas and LaBranche Structured Products, and earlier in his career, served at Credit Agricole in Paris in a position covering interest rate derivatives e-trading.
He had most recently served as head of international equity trading.
Bank of America
Blaise Prevoteau has joined Bank of America as a managing director, leading core and semi-core European government bond trading.
He will be based out of Paris in his new role and joins the firm following a 21-year tenure at HSBC.
Prevoteau initially joined HSBC as a market risk manager in 2005, before later moving into a role covering euro government bond trading.
Bernstein
Milko Milinkovic has joined Bernstein’s cash equity execution team as an equity sales trader.
Based out of Frankfurt, Milinkovic is set to strengthen the firm’s full service offering for Germany-based institutional investors.
He brings extensive sell-side experience to his new role, spanning high and low-touch equity sales trading, as well as program trading flows.
Milinkovic joins the Societe Generale and AllianceBernstein joint venture from RBC Capital Markets, where he spent nearly five years as an equity sales trader.
Prior to this, he had served in a similar role at ODDO BHF for more than two years.
Previously in his career, Milinkovic has also worked in cash equity sales and trading based roles at firms spanning Societe Generale and Eurex.
Kepler Cheuvreux
Kepler Cheuvreux has bolstered its fixed income offering, appointing Niklas Janetski in a role covering senior convertible bond and special situations credit sales.
Janetski will be based in London in his new role, working alongside the firm’s fixed income teams in Paris, Geneva, Stockholm and Dubai.
Over the course of his career, he has worked extensively across convertible bonds for almost two decades, covering both sales and trading.
Janetski joins the firm from Mizuho, where he spent eight years, most recently as director and co-head of EMEA convertible bond trading.
Prior to this, he has worked extensively at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, initially joining in a middle-office role in 2007, focusing on European convertible bonds.
Following this, he spent eight years in a convertible bond sales role, before moving into a trading-based role on the firm’s European convertible bonds desk for a further seven years.
OKX
Crypto exchange operator OKX has appointed Adam Wood as chief operating officer and head of trading for its Europe Markets business.
The move sees Wood bringing more than two decades of experience across equities trading, market structure and electronic trading infrastructure into the digital assets space.
In his new role, he will oversee regional operations alongside leading the firm’s trading function, as OKX continues to expand its institutional footprint across Europe.
Wood most recently served at London Stock Exchange Group’s multilateral trading facility Turquoise, where he was global chief executive and head of equities trading commercial proposition for more than three years.
Prior to his time at Turquoise, Wood served in various senior positions across prime brokerage and clearing, including as director of international prime brokerage sales at BCS Global Markets and relationship manager at ABN AMRO Clearing Bank.