Citadel Securities
Rachel Underhill has joined Citadel Securities as a fixed income ETF sales trader.
Underhill is based out of New York and brings extensive industry experience working across ETFs and fixed income to her new role.
She joins the firm from BNP Paribas, where she spent eight months working in a position covering G10 macro rates sales in San Francisco.
Prior to her time at BNP Paribas, she served at BlackRock for more than three years in various different roles, most recently as head of US ETF markets coverage.
Underhill has also held positions as Citi covering fixed income portfolio, credit and high-grade municipals trading.
She began her industry career as an associate in fixed income at Capital Group in Los Angeles, which she joined in 2016.
Liquidnet
Luke McCabe has joined Liquidnet as a senior equity trader, following a four-year stint at Kepler Cheuvreux.
London-based McCabe’s experience spans equities and electronic trading. He most recently served as an electronic and portfolio trading sales trader at Kepler Cheuvreux.
Prior to this, he also spent more than 14 years at Canaccord Genuity, working across the firm’s global capital markets division.
While at the firm, he held a variety of roles, spanning electronic and equity sales trading, product control and trade support.
Speaking to The TRADE, Gareth Exton, head of execution and quantitative services EMEA at Liquidnet, said: “[McCabe’s] appointment underscores our commitment to strengthening our execution capabilities and delivering innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our members.”
Trium Capital
Benjamin Pouly has joined Trium Capital as a trader, focusing on merger arbitrage and equity events.
London-based Pouly has worked across financial markets for more than 15 years, spanning various hedge fund and execution-based roles.
He joins Trium Capital from Boussard & Gavaudan, which he joined initially in 2007 in the middle-office, later becoming an execution trader before departing in 2010, to then rejoin as a head execution trader, covering cash equity and equity derivatives.
Between his two stints at Boussard & Gavaudan, Pouly spent three years as a head execution trader and partner at Occitan Capital Partners.
He began his industry career as an institutional account manager at BNP Paribas in 2006, based out of Paris.
Deutsche Bank
Mike Yau has joined Deutsche Bank as an equity sales trader, based in Hong Kong.
He joins the firm from China Renaissance, where he spent the last six years as the firm’s head of trading.
Prior to this, Yau worked as Nomura’s head of portfolio trading.
He has also worked extensively across the industry in various trader and portfolio trading positions, at firms including CLSA and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL) has named Cartigny Thomas as a sales trader, based out of Luxembourg.
Thomas brings extensive sales trading experience to his new role, which will see him covering CIB financial markets. He joins the firm from European asset manager, Azimut Investments, where he spent more than five years.
Thomas confirmed his new role in an announcement on social media.
During his time at Azimut, Thomas served as a trader on the firm’s buy-side trading desk, covering multi-asset execution.
Prior to this, he also worked at CACEIS for over two years, where he worked in a role covering institutional sales spanning forex sales and trading, as well as money market instruments.
He has also held roles at KBL Richelieu in Paris, and began his industry career at Banque Populaire Alsace Lorraine Champagne (BPALC) in 2016.