Invesco
Paul Squires, Invesco head of trading – EMEA and APAC equities, has left the firm after six and a half years, The TRADE can reveal.
A spokesperson for Invesco confirmed Squires’ departure when approached by The TRADE.
London-based Squires joined the firm in 2018 after having spent more than two decades at AXA Investment Management, most recently as head of trading.
As head of trading, Squires was responsible for 31 traders in London, Paris and Greenwich in the US covering equities, fixed income FX and derivatives.
He initially joined as an equity trader in the UK in 1996, before moving to trade European equities, and subsequently fixed income. Squires was promoted to head of trading after AXA IM’s trading group in 2005 as it merged with the securities financing team.
Prior to joining AXA IM, he worked as a UK equity trader for Mercury Asset Management.
LSEG
SIX’s head equity products and quant research Simon Mason is set to join LSEG, as the firm’s new head of market structure and new products, The TRADE can reveal.
London-based Mason brings more than two decades of industry experience to his new role, effective 1 December, and joins the firm after spending nearly six years at SIX, where he initially joined as head equity product for UK and Ireland in 2020.
Prior to this, he spent almost eight years at Benchmark Holdings in roles as a business development manager, and later as head of BioSystems.
He has also held senior positions as firms including Emerge Capital Partners, Morgan Stanley and AssetBacked Finance, and his new appointment at LSEG marks a return to the firm for Mason, who served as a business development manager at the firm from 2008 to 2009.
Stifel
Sam Hart has joined Stifel as a director, high-touch sales trader, further expanding the firm’s execution services team, The TRADE can reveal.
London-based Hart brings 15 years of industry experience to his new role, and will report to Mark Small, managing director at Stifel.
He joins from Berenberg, where he spent more than six years as a senior market maker.
Prior to this, he also served as a UK equities trader at Winterflood Securities, serving in this role for nearly nine years.
BTIG
George Wales has joined BTIG’s high-touch sales trading team as an equity sales trader.
Wales will be based out of London, which will see him trading pan-European stocks covering UK long-only and hedge fund clients, The TRADE has learnt.
He brings more than a decade of industry experience spanning both the buy- and sell-side to his position at the firm, and joins from Numis, now part of Deutsche Bank, where he also worked as an equity sales trader for three years.
Previously in his career, he also held similar positions at sell-side firm Winterflood Securities, as well as RBC Global Asset Management.
He began his industry career working as an analyst at Northern Trust in 2011.
Citi
Citi has made seven additions to its FX team in Japan, Asia North and Australia (JANA) and Asia South, in a bid to bolster its offering in these regions.
The hires span the firm’s corporate, institutional and trading teams for its FX business across JANA, and among the appointments is Manoj Goel, who joins as head of corporate FX sales for the India sub-continent.
Also joining the corporate FX sales team is Cassalynne Lou, who joins Citi after a stint at Barclays, and will be based out of Singapore to focus on growing the CCB North Asia-Singapore corridor FX business, as well as increasing the FX solutions advisory agenda.
Alongside the new hires, Yusuke Aita has also joined the institutional FX sales team as a director in Tokyo. He will report to Anand Goyal, head of institutional FX sales for JANA and Asia South, and brings 17 years of industry experience to his new role, most recently serving at BNP Paribas.
Similarly, Renee Gao also joins the team from HSBC as a director in Hong Kong, reporting to Chen Ni, head of FX institutional sales, Asia North and Australia, while Matthew Lim joins in Singapore as a vice president, reporting to Timothy Young , head of FX real money and bank sales, Asia South.
Elsewhere, within Citi’s FX trading team in the region, Nicky Lam has joined the firm’s G10 FX options trading team as a director from Nomura International Singapore, where he headed up the APAC G10 options business.
Additionally, Jonathan Chua joins the FX trading desk as a Singapore SGD trader and STIR, bringing a decade of experience working at firms including Wells Fargo, Natwest Markets and Maybank.
Kepler Cheuvreux
Natasja Hansen is set to join Kepler Cheuvreux’s execution services platform, KCx, as a high-touch sales trader.
Hansen will join the KCx team in January, based out of Paris, and will support the development of the firm’s execution strategy in her new role.
Hansen joins Kepler Cheuvreux from S14 Capital, where she spent three years as head of execution, based out of Milan.
Previously in her career, she has worked out of Luxembourg, serving as an execution trader at Indosuez Wealth Management for four years, and a cross-asset dealer at Societe Generale Private Banking for three years.
Prior to this, she also worked on Covéa Finance’s equity dealing desk, as well as working in equity sales trading at Deutsche Bank.
JP Morgan
Stuart Holt has joined JP Morgan in an equity sales role, based out of London.
Holt brings more than two decades of industry experience to his new position, which will see him focused on London hedge funds.
He joins from Clear Street, where he had been serving as managing director, sales, distribution and client strategy, since January 2025.
Prior to this, he worked at Berenberg for seven years as head of pan-European sales, and also held a director position in equity sales at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for more than three years.
Holt also previously headed up hedge fund sales at Sanford Bernstein and worked in an equity sales role at Credit Suisse.