B2C2 has appointed Cactus Raazi as Chief Executive Officer of the B2C2 US business. Based at the company’s New Jersey office, he will report to Thomas Restout, Group CEO, and will be a member of the B2C2 executive committee. Previously, Raazi was US CEO and Co-Head Americas at Amber Group, where he led Amber’s revenue growth and regulatory engagement. Prior to Amber, he held regional and global leadership roles at Goldman Sachs, Nomura and Tradeweb in the USA and Europe before founding and exiting a FinTech startup.
Kepler Cheuvreux has appointed Eric Kohler as a member of its high touch trading team, GlobalTrading reported. Based in New York, he will contribute to the continued growth of the firm’s execution footprint and North American presence, a strategic priority for the company.Kohler has 15 years of industry experience and joins Kepler Cheuvreux from Citi, where he was most recently an i nternational equity trader. He also held a sales and trading analyst role in the firm’s commodities division, before which he worked in product control on the G10 rates and finance desk.
TD Securities (TDS) has promoted Carl Hayes, Managing Director, as the new Head of European Cash Equities. Based in London, Hayes reports to Sharon Kim, Executive Managing Director and Region Head of Europe, TD Securities and Senior Vice President, TD Bank Group. Hayes joined Cowen Execution Services Limited (CESL) as Head of European Sales Trading in 2019. He has had a pivotal role in shaping the business strategy and driving its execution.
Isabelle Mateos y Lago has been appointed BNP Paribas Chief Economist, replacing William de Vijlder, current BNP Paribas Chief Economist since 2014, who will be retiring in a few months’ time. He will take on the role of Economic Adviser to the Group’s General Management, reporting to Lars Machenil. Mateos y Lago has over 25 years’ experience in international economics, finance and public policy. She joins BNP Paribas from BlackRock where she served since 2015 and was Chief Macro Investment Strategist at the BlackRock Investment Institute and then Chief Markets Strategist in the Financial and Strategic Investors Group until 2024.
The TCW Group, a global asset management firm, has continued its global expansion with the opening of a new office in Dubai, UAE. As part of the establishment of the DIFC office, Wael Younan will relocate from New York to Dubai to lead and grow the new office. Younan together with Peter Moore co-head TCW’s Sovereign Wealth Group. Moore remains based in Los Angeles and will continue to work closely with Younan on the ongoing growth of TCW’s sovereign wealth relationships in the Middle East and globally.
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