JP Morgan has unveiled its new global structuring management team, which sees multiple senior staff promotions and expanded roles across asset class and cross-asset areas.
The new offering is set to unify the previously separate structuring teams across sales, trading and banking, and addressing the evolving needs of JP Morgan’s institutional clients through providing solutions.
According to an internal memo seen by The TRADE, the team is set to report to Rui Fernandes’, global head of markets trading structuring, whose role recently expanded to cover the responsibility of the firm’s global structuring business franchise across markets and sales.
Among the additions is Arnaud Jobert who will cover equities for the team, as well as global strategic indices structuring and solutions, and report to Rachid Alaoui, co-head of the strategic index business across trading and structuring.
London-based Jobert also currently serves as managing director, global head of equities structuring at the firm, a role which he has held for more than 15 years.
Additionally, Sankha Ghosh and Rahul Shah will undertake the responsibility for emerging and local markets for the team.
Hong-Kong based Ghosh will also become head of Asia-Pacific structuring and has worked at JP Morgan for more than 15 years, most recently as a managing director, while Shah currently holds the position of managing director, global co-head of emerging markets structuring in London.
Moreover, Anthony Fraind will take on the role of global finance structuring as well as covering credit for the team.
Also joining is Jacob Lindewald, who is set to manage the team’s rates and FX division. He leaves behind his previous role as managing director, head of sales and marketing for Nordics and Netherlands, which Mattieu Wiltz, deputy chief executive for EMEA is set to manage until a successor is named.
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Similarly, based in London, Dominic Smallwood will run global financial institutions group (FIG) solutions structuring, covering clients such as hedge funds, banks, pension funds and insurance companies across various cash and derivative markets products.
Shahzad Sadique and Masi Yamada are also set to join the team.
Sadique will assume the responsibility for the firm’s Mansart fund management, having most recently served as chief executive for JP Morgan Mansart Management for almost 13 years.
Meanwhile, Yamada will lead global corporate structuring alongside his current role as co-head of strategic financing solutions, and will also report to Brad Tully, global head of corporate derivative and private-side sales and head of America sales.
Speaking to the new and extended positions, Fernandes said: “The effectiveness of the global structuring organisation will rely on both deep asset class expertise and a client-centric and product-agnostic solutions approach, aligned with our strategic priorities and critical client segments.”