Marex
Marex has bolstered its electronic offering, appointing Christophe Roupie as global head of electronic trading and platforms.
Roupie brings more than three decades of industry experience to his new role, spanning cross-asset trading, securities financing, collateral management, regulatory reporting and data management.
He joins the firm after an eight-year tenure at MarketAxess, where he served as head of EMEA and APAC, and chief executive for the UK.
During his time at MarketAxess, he oversaw the firm’s electronic bond trading, data and post-trade businesses across more than 60 countries in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific.
Previously in his career, Roupie also held the role of global head of trading and securities financing at AXA Investment Managers for 10 years, based out of Paris.
He has also worked at Natixis Asset Management and Tradition.
ING
ING has named Alex Yang as its new global head of electronic fixed income (eFI) trading.
London-based Yang joins the firm from asset management giant Millennium, where he spent three years as a quantitative researcher, covering systematic fixed income trading, corporate bonds, rates and ETFs.
Prior to this, he also spent a year at Jefferies as head of EMEA credit algorithmic trading, as well as an eight-year tenure at Citi in various roles.
Specifically, during his time at Citi he served as a credit algo front-office developer, as well as in roles spanning eFX automated trading and algo trading.
He began his industry career as a software engineer at UBS Investment Bank.
ANZ
As part of an update of its Asia credit trading platform, ANZ has hired several traders and analysts in a move designed to support buy-side clients’ execution and address risk management needs.
Specifically, the bank’s re-established credit trading desk comprises five traders and two dedicated desk analysts, led by head of credit trading for Asia, Bwochau Fu, who joined the firm in H2 2025.
Fu has served in senior positions at several firms, including China International Capital Corporation Hong Kong Asset Management (CICC HKAM), Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley Asia, and personally covers USD bond trading in Australia and Japan on the ANZ desk.
While currently his team focuses on credit flow trading in Asian sovereign, quasi-sovereign, corporate, and financial credits, primarily in USD, ANZ plans to further develop SGD and CNH credit trading capabilities in early 2026, The TRADE understands.
The new hires include Andy Leung who recently joined from HSBC as a market maker. At ANZ he is specifically focused on bolstering its sovereign and quasi-sovereign offering while re-establishing flow trading in Hong Kong and Taiwanese credits.
Chirag Srivastava also joined the firm in recent months. He is responsible for broader Asia ex-China/Hong Kong markets, overseeing Korea, India, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Prior to joining ANZ, Srivastava worked stints at Standard Chartered and Deutsche Bank focused on Asian credit bond trading.
Aurora Guo and Nikolai Beck are also members of the desk, having been with the firm for several years. Guo specialises in Chinese financials and corporates, while Beck maintains pricing and risk management continuity across European and US trading time zones.
Two analysts have also been added to the Asia credit trading desk – Shanghai-based Ting Meng and Singapore-based Viacheslav (Slava) Shilin.
Both dedicated desk credit strategists have extensive industry experience, and engage directly with clients providing detailed credit analysis and actionable trade recommendations.
ODDO BHF
ODDO BHF has named Ammir Naqvi electronic sales trader.
He joins from Instinet, where he spent a year working as across LSET (Latency Sensitive Electronic Trading) sales and coverage.
In the role, Naqvi was focused on electronic execution, low-latency trading and market structure.
Prior to joining ODDO BHF, Naqvi spent more than eight years at Societe Generale, most recently as director, electronic and programme trading sales within the bank’s equities business.
Before that, Naqvi spent more than three years at Kepler Cheuvreux as a sales-trader, focused on electronic execution, programme trading and pairs trading across Europe, US and APAC equity markets.
Bernstein
Amaury de Miguel has joined Bernstein’s cash equity execution team in Paris as an electronic sales trader.
In his new role, de Miguel will support execution strategy design, optimise liquidity access and reduce trading costs for Bernstein’s clients, and bring a deeper focus on electronic trading and innovation in client solutions to the trading team.
Specifically, his appointment aligns with the firm’s wider goal to build out its EEA client-facing capabilities in Paris.
He joins Bernstein from AXA Investment Managers, where he spent the past three years working across various different roles.
He initially joined the French buy-side firm in 2022 as a trading engineer, before becoming an equity quantitative analyst, and later stepping up to his most recent position as an electronic trader and data scientist.
Previously in his career, he worked as a quantum computing researcher at IBM.
HSBC
HSBC has expanded its equity and listed derivatives desk with the addition of Pierre Gilles de la Londe as a trader.
He brings more than a decade of industry experience to his new position, and will report to Alexander Neil, head of equity for HSBC Swiss Private Bank.
He joins HSBC from Alana Capital, where he spent a year as a cross-asset trader, spanning equities, derivatives, bonds and FX.
Based out of Geneva, de la Londe’s new role will focus on enhancing the desk’s execution quality and performance.
Prior to his time at Alana Capital, de la Londe also held cross-asset trading positions at FlowBank, Greenwich Dealing and Tradition Securities and Futures.
Previously in his career, de la Londe has served as an investment portfolio advisor for private banking at Crédit Agricole in Grenoble and also had a stint as an index head trader assistant based out of Sydney, at Wizard Trading Strategies.
BNP Paribas
James Hickling has joined BNP Paribas as a rates repo trader.
Hickling brings more than a decade of industry experience to his new role, and joins the European bank after three years at the UK Debt Management Office, where he served as a cash dealer, covering gilt repo trading.
Prior to this, he also spent nearly a year at BGC Partners in London, where he worked as a broker, with a core focus on secondary products in the investment grade space spanning various currencies.
He has also held fixed income trading, sales and brokerage positions at LXM Group and RP Martin.
He began his industry career gaining experience at various firms including JP Morgan, Mizuho, Susquehanna and Deutsche Bank.