Sarasin & Partners appointed Neil Palan, former Odey Asset Management trader, to join its ranks as a multi-asset dealer, The TRADE revealed last Monday. Neil Palan joins Sarasin & Partners as a multi-asset dealer after over 16 years with Odey Asset Management. Sarasin & Partners confirmed his appointment. Palan began his career at State Street in 2006 as a fund administrator, joining Odey in a similar role just over a year later. He subsequently served in a variety of roles including as treasury manager and head of treasury before moving into his most recent trader and head of treasury role in 2018.
Casey Crawford was appointed institutional municipal trader, vice president, at RBC, joining from Citi. New-York based Crawford was previously vice president, municipals trading at Citi having spent a decade with the firm. His previous positions at the bank include: gold international finance analyst, private bank investment analyst and private bank fixed income analyst. Crawford also has experience working at Aon Hewitt and UBS earlier in his career.
SimCorp appointed Allen Zimmerman as managing director, head of Americas, set to lead SimCorp within the region – including the firm’s analytics business Axioma. His focus will be on defining strategic direction and helping realise SimCorp’s growth aspirations in the Americas. He joined from BlackRock, where he served as a managing director, focusing on business development for the firm’s investment management technology offering since 2015. Zimmerman brings 18 years of experience in financial services, including senior roles with the portfolio analytics and quantitative models businesses at Barclays and Citi. He also has experience in front-office modelling. Based in New York, Zimmerman will report to Oliver Johnson, chief revenue officer, and will focus on furthering growth within the Americas region.
BMO Capital Markets appointed Harj Bagria within its electronic trading division, The TRADE revealed last week. Bagria joined BMO from Credit Suisse, where he spent nearly five years. Most recently, Bagria held an EMEA equity trading position, based in London. Elsewhere in his tenure at Credit Suisse, Bagria held APAC equity trading and electronic sales trading positions, based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Bagria spent two and a half years at Deutsche Bank, most recently as head of electronic execution sales for APAC. This followed an eight-year stint at Citi, where he held electronic sales trading roles in both London and Hong Kong. Elsewhere in his career, Bagria held an analyst position at Lehman Brothers.
Wematch.live appointed David Culshaw as global head of fixed income; a newly created role which reflects the fintech’s expansion into the fixed income space. Culshaw joined Wematch.live from Brevan Howard spinout, SigTech, where he served as global head of business development. Elsewhere, Culshaw held a leadership role at CME Group’s BrokerTec, where he held responsibility for the commercial development of the firm’s dealer-to-client RFQ repo platform across EMEA and North America. Culshaw has a background working with both the buy- and sell-side across a range of financial products including interest rate derivatives, securities financing and cash bonds.