Bloomberg Tradebook announced the appointment of Peter Sampson, who will manage the firm’s block trading platform Liquidity Cross in the Asia-Pacific region. Sampson is charged with building relationships with the firm’s buy- and sell-side partners both in Asia and globally. A veteran with 20 years of experience, Sampson has worked in sales trading and dealing covering institutional equity trading, performance analysis, trade communication and algorithms. He was previously at Instinet Singapore Services Limited, where he was chief executive officer.
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Scotiabank has hired Michael Brian as its new head of Euroepan prime services, a role which he will take up in August. Brian came from Barclays. The bank also hired Barclays’ James Sixsmith as its regional head of client management, prime services for Europe and Asia. He will begin in August as well.
ICAP has appointed Ted Bragg senior vice president of fixed income product initiatives in its U.S. Securities group, a new role. Bragg, a professional with 29 years of experience, will be based in New York and be responsible for creating and developing new hybrid fixed income products for ICAP’s U.S.-based global broking group. He has held senior positions at BNY Mellon, including head of product management and e-commerce strategy and co-head of fixed income trading. He has also worked at Pershing, eSpeed, Fidelity Capital Markets, Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital.
The JonesTrading has hired industry veteran and sales trader Jeffrey Gamble, as a vice president in its institutional equity execution in the firm’s JonesTrading Canada Toronto office. Prior to JonesTrading, Gamble was director of sales and trading for ITG Canada Corporation. Before that, he worked for JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC, where he previously traded Canadian equities from the U.S. He also was head of trading with Versant Partners and MGI Securities, both in Toronto.
Edward Adrion has joined Miller/Howard Investments in its Woodstock, N.Y. office as its new associate director of trading. Adrion, a veteran with nearly 30 years in the market, came from WP Stewart where he was the head trader. WP Stweart was acquired by Alliance Bernstein in December of 2013. Before that, he was at Reich & Tang/Delafield Asset Management from 1996 to 2009 as its head trader.
