Darren Smith has left his role as head of execution and quantitative services for Liquidnet’s European listed derivatives business to join Bank of America.
London-based Smith joins the firm in a role covering futures and options sales, and brings almost two decades of industry experience to the position.
He spent more than four years at Liquidnet, where he focused on agency execution services asset management in his leadership role.
Prior to this, Smith held a 15-year tenure at UBS, where he initially joined in a delta one trading role, before later moving up the ranks to work across fixed income futures and options strategy, and ETD fixed income sales.
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Neither firm had responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.
Earlier this year, Blaise Prevoteau joined Bank of America as a managing director, leading core and semi-core European government bond trading.
Based in Paris, Prevoteau’s appointment followed a 21-year tenure at HSBC, where he most recently served as co-head of European debt trading.