The past week was one for the books in terms of people moves, with a new buy-side head of ETF capital markets for EMEA and APAC, as well as senior positions across the sell-side spanning market structure, equities, rates and derivatives.
New hire joins from Soros Fund Management, having served in various different roles over the past 14 years.
As AI and technological transformations command an increasingly central role in the shift to continuous trading, panellists speaking at the TradingTech Summit on Thursday emphasised the importance of human presence on the desk in order to ensure a successful shift to these models.
New hire will focus on Europe and APAC, supporting the firm’s plans to serve more clients across the regions; individual has previously held senior positions at Vanguard, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
New hire joins the bank after 14 years at JP Morgan, where he set up and ran the firm’s continental sovereign, supranational, and agency (SSA) and credit repo trading desk in Paris.
Move will enable global clients accessing the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) to utilise the platform’s full suite of trading tools, including execution algorithms.
The move is set to align crypto execution with traditional wholesale markets, in a bid to enhance capital efficiency, risk management and institutional confidence.
New hire has also previously held various senior positions at Cboe Global Markets.
RQD Clearing’s new separate entity introduces a ‘competition for order flow’ model, designed to enhance execution quality and liquidity competition across the US-listed options market.
New hire comes shortly after a recent addition to Rothschild & Co’s equities execution business, and is set to support the firm’s Global Markets Solutions (GMS) platform.