Two former London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and SIX Swiss Exchange sales specialists were selected to join US equites alternative trading system (ATS) OneChronos to support its push into Europe. Former LSEG’s Scott Bradley was appointed chief executive of OneChronos’ London office, effective immediately. Alongside him, former SIX’s Adam Sherlock has been appointed chief executive of the European office and head of the firm’s new European Amsterdam based MTF, effective from 1 April. The pair will lead the ATS’ push into Europe, co-heading its European Franchise. Bradley left LSEG in November 2022, after nearly six years, most recently serving as head of sales and platform distribution for securities trading. Elsewhere, Sherlock most recently served in a European equity sales role since 2021.
Federated Hermes selected Imogen Hepsworth to join its trading desk as a junior credit trader. Hepsworth was appointed to the desk at the London-headquartered asset manager after spending the last four and a half years at MarketAxess in a facilitation trading role. She originally joined MarketAxess in 2019 as an operations analyst, moving into an analyst role in the fixed income venue’s Open Trading business a year later. In her most recent role as a facilitation trader covering London and the US, she serviced the institutional client base for platform trading all-to-all and credit.
UBS has chosen Aleksandar Ivanovic to succeed Suni Harford as president of asset management upon her departure, with the appointment effective from 1 March. Ivanovic has also been elected to the UBS group executive board alongside his appointment. He joined UBS back in 1992 and has worked across every business division since. Prior to this most recent appointment, was head of client coverage and head of the EMEA and Switzerland regions for asset management. Ivanovic has also previously held leadership roles at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley.
Vontobel Asset Management appointed ex-Credit Suisse senior executive, Andrew Jackson, as its new head of fixed income, replacing Simon Lue-Fong who is departing after three years in the role. A spokesperson told The TRADE that Jackson will oversee a team of 39 investment professionals in his new role. London-based Jackson was previously head of fixed income at Credit Suisse for almost two years, having served in the same role at Federated Hermes for five years prior to that. Previously in his career, Jackson spent 13 years at Cairn Capital, most recently serving as chief investment officer.
Citi created two new equities roles, appointing from within, in a bid to drive its equity business strategy and “cement the gains made in the derivatives business,” according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Robert Smolen was named head of exotics trading, having previously served as head of EMEA equity exotics and global hybrids trading following his move from JP Morgan in 2017. The second appointment was that of Yohann Freoa as head of index flow trading – effectively expanding his remit to cover all clusters, having previously served as European head of flow trading. Prior to Citi, Freoa held senior positions at both JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
JP Morgan appointed Oliver Hall vice president, futures and options (F&O) hybrid sales trader. Hall was promoted to the role after serving at the bank for nearly 6 and a half years, most recently as associate, F&O electronic sales trader, in Frankfurt, a role he has held for the last two years. Prior to that, Hall held the same role, based out of London. This followed an 11-month stint as associate, clearing client service manager – also based in London. Before joining JP Morgan, Hall held analyst roles at Rothschild and Barclays Corporate Banking. Elsewhere in his career, Hall served as an intern at BNP Paribas, Morgan Stanley and Rothschild.
Omar Darwish joined fintech pioneer GTN as equity sales trader following a three-and-a-half-year stint at Arqaam Capital. His appointment comes as GTN continues its expansion efforts to build a comprehensive electronic trading and investment platform. Prior to his appointment as equity sales trader at Arqaam Capital in 2020, Darwish was director at Beltone Financial and before that worked as VP sales trader at Renaissance Capital. UAE-based Darwish has also worked as sales trader at investment banks Credit Suisse and Commercial International Bank (CIB).