Jefferies
Rafael Madrid has left Morgan Stanley to join Jefferies as a managing director in emerging markets credit trading.
London-based Madrid has worked extensively across trading, emerging markets, credit analysis and derivatives over the course of his career, and most recently served as co-head of European CEEMEA trading at Morgan Stanley for a year.
He also previously worked as a CEEMEA credit trader at the firm for more than two years.
Prior to this, he also worked at Goldman Sachs for over four years as an emerging markets trader, and before this held a position as executive director, head of LatAm credit trading at UBS.
Previously in his career, he also served as a vice president at Deutsche Bank from 2009 to 2013, working across emerging markets external debt.
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank has hired former Mizuho head of European government bond trading, Amedeo Scippacercola as a rates trader.
Scippacercola will be based out of London in his new position, and joins after spending over a year at Mizuho.
He brings over a decade of experience working across financial markets to his new role, and also previously lead European government bond trading at NatWest for more than a year. He initially joined the firm as a director in October 2022.
Prior to this, has also worked at firms spanning Citi, Barclays, Symmetry Investments, Societe Generale and JP Morgan, serving in positions covering portfolio management, fixed income trading, interest rate exotics and FX.
HSBC
HSBC has hired Damien Travers as an equity derivatives sales associate.
London-based Travers is set to work across equity derivatives and fixed income structured products in his new role, and joins the firm from BNP Paribas CIB.
While at BNP Paribas, he served in a position covering cross-asset structured product sales for more than two years, working out of Geneva.
Previously in his career, he has also worked across cross-asset sales at Crédit Agricole.
Travers confirmed his new role in an announcement on social media.
HSBC had not responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.