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New positions across the past week include an exchange head of clearing, as well as two hires to support the growth of US institutional ETF trading, and a sell-side algo trader appointment.  

The past week saw a range of trading and market structure appointments across the buy- and sell-side, alongside a new regulatory advisory role. 

New hire joins the firm as a quantitative trader; he most recently spent 14 years at Citadel Securities, covering equity options. 

RQD Clearing’s new separate entity introduces a ‘competition for order flow’ model, designed to enhance execution quality and liquidity competition across the US-listed options market. 

Market experts from Tradeweb, SIX, FlexTrade Systems and Optiver examine the key factors set to shape global markets in 2026, spanning regulation, pricing and data.  

The past week has seen senior appointments across equities trading and FX, as well as hires across institutional sales, spanning cash equities and ETFs.   

The new senior hires will focus specifically on cash equities and ETFs and are set to strengthen the buy-side liquidity offering across both sides of the Atlantic.

The addition marks the seventh liquidity provider to join the exchange’s solution and follows the incorporation of Societe Generale onto the service in June 2025.  

Move will amend how Optiver reports and will see the market maker expand the number of stocks it is able to offer up liquidity in.