Pirum
Pirum has appointed Zoë Balkwell as head of pre-trade and trading solutions, to help drive the evolution of the firm’s pre-trade connectivity solution.
As part of her new role, she is set the support the adoption and development of Pirum TradeConnect and will also collaborate with clients and spearhead complementary trading solutions to build out the firm’s pre-trade business.
London-based Balkwell has worked across securities finance automation and trading for more than a decade, and joins the firm from JP Morgan, where she served as head of flow trading for EMEA for nearly five years, working at the forefront of the bank’s agency securities finance operations.
Prior to this, she worked at State Street for more than three years in a role covering securities finance trading.
Previously in her career, she has also held senior positions at firms including EquiLend, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, where she began her industry career as a securities finance software engineer.
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
Stephane Marie Francoise has joined First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) as director, cross-asset trader within the firm’s trading and execution desk.
He has more than two decades of experience in asset management and joins the firm from Unigestion, where he spent more than 12 years based out of Geneva.
He initially joined as senior vice president, multi-asset trader, before later becoming a director in 2013.
Previously in his career, he has also worked at Amundi in Paris, where he served as an equities senior execution trader and before that spent more than nine years at CPR Asset Management, working across roles including senior multi-asset trading, equities execution trading and the middle office.
He confirmed his new role in an announcement on social media.
FAB had not yet responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.
Mizuho
Mizuho has appointed Singapore-based Michaela Lindgren director in fixed income sales.
Lindgren joins the Japanese bank from Natwest, where she spent the last seven years covering various positions in fixed income sales, across both London and Singapore.
Before that, Lindgren worked at Bloomberg for two years, initially as a fixed income product specialist, before becoming an account manager.
Lindgren confirmed her new role in an announcement on social media.
Mizuho had not yet responded to a request for comment at the time of publication.