Macquarie Group announced last Tuesday that is has appointed three senior members to its US cash equities business. The three new employees are Alex Goodman, Marc Racioppo, and Maynard Um. Goodman has been appointed as the Managing Director and Head of US Cash Trading. Marc Racioppo has been hired as an ADR trader and specialist in Asian equities. Maynard Um has joined the firm as a Senior Research Analyst covering automotive and disruptive technology companies.
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Alex Skrypnik has just joined Citi as a Director in its electronic trading group. Skrypnik is a London-based quant developer who comes from Goldman Sachs. Prior to that, he worked in Bank of America’s cross-asset algorithmic trading team.
Former Bridgewater Senior Trader Erick Quay has launched his own investment management firm, Quay Capital, LLC.The firm, headquartered in New York City, will provides tactical investment management solutions to accredited private investors and institutions across the country. Quay, has more than 6 years of financial advisory and investment experience – working at J.P. Morgan and Bridgewater Associates.
TradingScreen has made two new appointments in its senior management team and hired the former CFO of Hotpsot FX for the same role. Rishi Gupta has more than 20 years experience working in finance, accounting and operations. He most recently worked as the CFO at a private equity firm and prior to that was CFO for Hotspot FX, the institutional FX trading platform now known as Cboe FX. Alongside TradingScreens appointment of Gupta as its new CFO, the OEMS specialists current chief strategy officer, Varghese Thomas, will take on an additional role as COO.
Derivatives collateral management services provider AcadiaSoft has hired industry veteran and a former Nomura OTC clearing director Lee McCormack. McCormack has been appointed head of collateral product management and professional services at AcadiaSoft, responsible for extending the firms CollateralManager tool to new customers and expanding the service for buy-side clients. His career spans more than 15 years and includes senior roles in collateral and clearing at Nomura, UBS, LCH and Morgan Stanley. He joins AcadiaSoft following a short stint with cloud-based collateral firm CloudMargin, where he was head of product development and strategy.
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management landed Gautam Kalani forthe newly created role of Emerging Market FX Strategist. Based in London, Kalani will join the five-strong EM strategist team, reporting to Senior Sovereign Strategists Timothy Ash and Graham Stock, and will be responsible for analysing and shaping global FX positioning across BlueBays emerging markets investment strategies. He was most recently a Strategist in the Emerging Markets Research team at Deutsche Bank.
Law firm Reed Smith hired Gerard Martin and Jeffrey Silberman, both as Counsel, for its Financial Industry Group. Martin is a finance lawyer who represents banks, alternative capital providers, portfolio companies and other debt investors on debt financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, asset-based loans, bridge facilities. He joins Reed Smiths Global Finance team from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and will be based in the firms Chicago office.
Silberman is a corporate and capital markets lawyer with a particular focus on the FinTech and financial services sectors. Prior to joining Reed Smith, he served as Counsel, head of Structured Finance and Business Development at LendKey, a leading full-service digital lending platform for banks and credit unions. Previously Jeff also served as general counsel for JVB Financial Group, a broker-dealer. He will be based in the firms New York office.
Fonetic, a global leader in voice processing, compliance and surveillance technology, grabbed three industry veterans to create a new product advisory board. Nick Child, Sandy Broderick and Oliver Blower will provide Fonetic with expert advice on regulatory compliance, surveillance and technology.
Nick Child was formerly Citi markets compliance head.
Sandy Broderick, an ex Socit Gnrale Managing Director, brings over two decades experience in derivatives trading and post-trade infrastructure.
Oliver Blower was CEO of RegTech firm VoxSmart and formerly of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays Capital.
There were three-profile hires at OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider. David Hait assumed the title of CEO while Eran Steinberg was promoted to COO and Chief of Staff and Garrett DeSimone was hired as Head of Quantitative Research. As Head of Quantitative Research at OptionMetrics, DeSimone is developing empirical research focused on derivative pricing and macroeconomics.
