Brandon Peoples has joined Jefferies, serving as the firm’s new global head of outsourced trading.
Peoples will be based out of New York and brings more than two decades of industry experience to his new role, spanning outsourced trading, execution services and market structure.
The appointment is also expected to increase the expansion of Jefferies’ global outsourced trading platform, with the firm having most recently selected TS Imagine’s integrated order and execution management platform to bolster fixed income outsourced trading.
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Peoples joins the firm from Cantor Fitzgerald, where he spent the last six years leading the firm’s global outsourced trading offering.
Prior to this, he served at EastBay Capital as head of domestic trading and operations for more than six years.
Previously in his career, he has also worked in various trading-based roles at Diamondback Capital and XI Asset Management.
Jefferies had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.