ING
ING has appointed Alexander Critien as global head of FM rates and nonlinear trading.
The newly created role will see Critien lead ING’s global FM rates and nonlinear trading platform, working closely with regional trading teams, technology partners, quantitative functions and other key stakeholders.
Based out of London, Critien is set to report to Niall Carton, global head of FM trading.
Critien brings nearly two decades of experience in rates options trading to his new role and joins ING after having spent his entire career at JPMorgan based out of London and Paris.
He joined JP Morgan in 2006 as an analyst and progressed through the ranks to managing director, most recently serving as head of EMEA rates options trading, where he was desk head and risk owner for the business.
Critien holds strong expertise infront office technology, quantitative tooling within rates options, and has also worked extensively in volatility products across currencies, including EUR, GBP and CHF.
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald has expanded its fixed income trading team with the addition of Christine Belliard.
Belliard joins the investment bank as a fixed income trader, having previously spent more than a year in a similar role at JonesTrading.
Prior to this, she also held a 15-year tenure at Bank of America as a vice president, having initially joined the firm in 2009.
Panmure Liberum
Emma Horner has joined Panmure Liberum as vice president, sales trader.
London-based Horner joins the UK investment bank after spending two years in a similar role at Rothschild & Co Redburn.
While at the firm, she worked as part of the US high-touch trading team, with a key focus of US equities trading for institutional investors.
Prior to this, she also gained early career experience at Ebury, working across fintech, FX trading and trade finance.
Barclays
Barclays has appointed Chetan Vohra as global head of securitised products, based out of New York.
In his new role, Vohra is set to lead the securitised products business for the firm, and will report to Adeel Khan, head of global markets.
His addition to Barclays is expected to bolster the firm’s securitised products platform, and strengthen cross-asset connectivity, as well as engagement across origination, financing and trading.
Vohra has worked across capital markets for more than two decades, and brings extensive securitised products experience to his position at Barclays.
He joins from American alternative investment firm, Cerberus Capital Management, where he served as a senior managing director and portfolio manager, working across residential and asset backed loan trading, origination, finance, private credit, SFR debt and equity.
Prior to this, he had worked at Citi for 19 years, in various different roles spanning fixed income, MBS trading, and securitised products, with oversight across agency, non-agency and mortgage banking.
Garner had previously spent 14 years at Credit Suisse, most recently as co-head of securitised products trading.
Rothschild & Co
Luke Hedley is joining Rothschild & Co as an equity sales trader, after more than four years at Investec.
London-based Hedley has worked across equities sales trading for more than 13 years, covering both long only and hedge funds.
He joins Rothschild & Co after serving in the same position at Investec, and prior to this, also spent a decade at Numis Securities as a sales trader.