Optiver has confirmed three new senior appointments in its institutional sales team, focused on cash equities and ETFs.
In London, Oliver Chapman will join the UK cash equity sales team, having most recently served as director in electronic equity sales at Barclays, while Ian Schneider is also set to join the firm, focused on relationships with US counterparties.
Schneider joins from Morgan Stanley, where he was an executive director in cash equity sales.
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Additionally, Pierre Antoine Jaunâtre is a new addition to Optiver’s team in Amsterdam, set to drive ETF sales across France and Iberia. His move follows an 11-year stint at Flow Traders where he worked as an institutional trader, ETFs.
The hires are set to strengthen the firm’s direct-to-buy-side business liquidity offering across Europe and the US.
All are set to report to Jean-Marie Tine, head of Delta-One institutional sales, who asserted that the hires will “bring deep experience and strong relationships” and “represent the next stage of our growth – expanding liquidity provision in European equities to US counterparties, strengthening our UK presence, and building our direct ETF trading capabilities.”
He added: “Optiver’s direct counterparty business is focused on providing institutional investors with a compelling alternative to traditional execution channels.”