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Appointment follows a return to the firm after a spell at BestX, where the executive led strategy and growth across the business. 

The impact of the shift to the single volume cap (SVC) for dark trading in October 2025 has reduced both dark and lit order book trading across Europe, with the latter only making up 27% of addressable trading in Q4 2025, according to recent AFME findings.  

While market volatility can present opportunities to the equities industry, panellists at the Equities Leaders Summit in Miami indicated that market participants should err on the side of caution when it comes to liquidity access methods such as private rooms during these times.  

As part of the launch, Barclays has completed the first fully electronic multi-asset package trade for the instruments on Tradeweb’s swap execution facility (TW SEF).  

Offering combines both high and low touch trading across futures and options, rates and equities.

The new hire – previously named one of The TRADE’s Rising Stars of Trading and Execution – will focus on enhancing the firm’s regional presence, The TRADE understands.

While the US consolidated tape emerged alongside centralised exchanges, the challenge for Europe’s long-awaited iteration lies in its being built after fragmentation became entrenched in its markets, said panellists speaking at the Equities Leaders Summit in Miami on Tuesday. 

Less than a third of quantitative trading firms believe their front-office infrastructure can handle the volumes expected by the end of the decade, according to Acuiti’s latest report.

With exchanges and industry players commencing plans to shift to extended trading models, experts at the Equities Leaders Summit on Tuesday suggested that buy-side opinions on the prospect are not changing in tandem.

Individual was formerly global head of liquidity, financing and collateral; appointment is part of wider executive shake-up to support growth across markets and wealth solutions.