Citadel
Brian Pastor has been promoted to head of trading, global equities at Citadel, after almost eight years at the firm.
Pastor initially joined the firm in 2018 as an equity trader, before moving up the ranks to take on his new role.
Based in New York, he has worked across financial markets for more than 25 years, and prior to his time at Citadel, worked as a managing director and partner at Latimer Light Capital, which announced it would be shuttering its operations in December 2018.
Previously in his career, he also served as a trader at PFM LP for almost 10 years.
Pastor has also held various trader positions at firms including Deutsche Bank, Andor Capital Management and UBS Investment Bank.
Invesco
Invesco has promoted head trader, Samuel Henderson to the role of head of EMEA equity trading.
Henderson brings more than two decades of industry experience to his new role, and has worked across various sectors during his career, spanning program trading, equities, trading systems and electronic trading.
Henderson initially joined Invesco in 2017 as head of EMEA program trading, before later being named head trader for EMEA equities in 2021.
He has held various senior roles at firms across the world, and prior to joining Invesco, served as a trader and portfolio manager at Pointbreak Asset Management in Sydney for two years.
He has also worked at Dimensional Fund Advisors in Sydney as a senior trader and served as AB Bernstein’s head of electronic execution for more than five years, based out of both Hong Kong and London.
He has previously served as a portfolio trader at ITG in London.
ING
ING has named David Leech as the firm’s new global head of FX trading, succeeding Gary Prince.
Prince was made head of financial markets EMEA at ING in October 2025 – ING confirmed that Leech will report hierarchically to Prince and functionally to Niall Carton, global head of financial markets trading.
In his new role, London-based Leech will take on the oversight of all ING’s FX trading activities across the world, bringing more than two decades of markets experience to his new position.
The appointment marks an internal promotion for Leech, who initially joined ING in 2016 as a senior FX forwards trader, before later being promoted to head of FX UK in 2023.
Prior to his time at ING, Leech served as an emerging market bonds and derivatives trader at various firms, including Morgan Stanley, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, and ABN AMRO, where he began his industry career.
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas named Alexander Ford new managing director, head of UK cash sales trading.
London-based Ford brings more than two decades of sell-side experience to his new role and joins the firm after nearly 5 years at Citi.
During his time at Citi, Ford served as head of equity block and liquidity solutions.
Prior to this, he worked at Morgan Stanley for almost 12 years, initially joining as an equity sales trader, before later becoming head of UK flow derivatives sales for the firm.
Ford began his industry career as an equity sales trader at UBS Investment Bank in 2005.
Earlier this month, BNP Paribas and AXA Investment Managers combined their trading teams under the BNP Paribas Dealing Services umbrella, as part of the firm’s acquisition on AXA IM in July 2025.
The move marks the completion of all main legal mergers, and also marks the formation of BNP Paribas Asset Management as a single entity.
Societe Generale
Societe Generale has named Gary Harper as the firm’s new head of emerging market credit trading.
He joins from Absa Group, where he spent five years as head of eurobond trading. Before that Harper worked in an emerging markets credit – electronic trading role at Liquidnet.
Harper has also previously served at Mizuho in an executive director position, working across Turkey, South Africa, and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Prior to this, he served at Barclays as emerging markets credit flow trader director.
Other roles include stints at BNP Paribas, CIBC and ING in trading roles.
CLSA
Fred Bethell has joined CLSA as a program sales trader, based out of London.
Bethell has worked across financial markets spanning various different roles and asset classes for more than 15 years and joins CLSA from buy-side firm Aviva Investors.
During his time at Aviva, he served as an equity trader in the firm’s London office for seven years. This followed a stint at Odey Asset Management, where Bethell worked in the same role for almost three years.
Elsewhere, Bethell has previously served in assistant portfolio manager roles at Walker Crips and Ashcourt Rowan.