People Moves

Approval from the US Senate follows the appointment of Gary Gensler as chairman of the SEC in January earlier this year.

Former Goldman Sachs veteran and chief commercial officer at Symphony, Brad Levy, will succeed David Gurlé when he retires on 31 May. 

Helen Nicol joins CloudMargin as head of product after 14 years as global product director for Lombard Risk.

Chris Giancarlo joins Baton Systems as senior advisor after serving for five years as chairman and commissioner at the CFTC.

New hire at HKEX comes at a crucial time for the exchange group as it looks to implement and roll out several key post-trade initiatives. 

Credit Benchmark has appointed Thomas Gilligan, Americas equity sales head at IHS Markit, as its next chief commercial officer.  

Justin Schmidt joins Talos as head of strategy after spending the last three years as head of digital asset markets at US investment bank Goldman Sachs. 

Sameer Jain joins Nomura as wholesale chief information officer after nearly 30 years at Barclays and UBS in senior technology focused roles.  

Tim Ryan joins Natixis IM as chief executive officer after four years at insurance group Generali, replacing Jean Raby who will step down this month after three years as CEO.  

Alongside the losses for the first quarter of 2021, the Swiss bank also announced that two executives had stepped down and that it would be slashing executive bonuses.