MSCI has appointed Tia Counts to the newly created role of Chief Diversity Officer, effective May 17, 2021. Based in London, Counts will report to Scott Crum, Chief Human Resources Officer. She will be responsible for operating across MSCI to align our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) goals with business outcomes. She joins from JP Morgan’s Asset & Wealth Management business where she served as Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion.
Laide Majiyagbe has been appointed Head of Financing and Liquidity assuming oversight of BNY Mellon’s Securities Finance, Liquidity Services and Collateral Segregation businesses. In this newly created position, she will oversee the strategic direction for BNY Mellon’s financing, collateral and short-term liquidity offering. She joins BNY Mellon from Goldman Sachs, where she spent 14 years serving in a variety of positions, most recently as Global Head of Liquidity Projections in the firm’s Corporate Treasury division.
Adrian Griffiths has joined MEMX as Head of Market Structure. He will serve as a dedicated resource to help develop MEMX’s viewpoints on market structure. Griffiths has deep experience in the exchange space, most recently as Assistant General Counsel at Cboe Global Markets. Previously, he was a Senior Associate General Counsel at Nasdaq.
Frank Kost has joined LiquidityBook as Head of Sell-Side Business Development, North America. He will be based in the firm’s New York office. Kost will oversee business development efforts for LBX Sell-Side, LiquidityBook’s POEMS purpose-built for the modern agency trading desk. Kost most recently served as Director of Business Development at Axos Clearing.
Brett Harrison has been appointed as President of FTX.US. Harrison, an industry veteran with extensive expertise in developing traditional financial technology, will be FTX.US’s first President, working closely with the senior leadership team.
TS Imagine has appointed former Deutsche Bank Equity Trading MD, Andrew Morgan, as its new President and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). His focus will be on accelerating the growth of TS Imagine’s SaaS cloud-based software platform across the global financial services community.
Bailey Kessing has joined NYSE Sales and Relationship Management from Trillium Management where she served as Head of Business Development. Her experience working with proprietary trading firms and broker dealers across equites, options and futures will be an asset to expand the Exchange’s client base.
Etrading Software has hired Victoria Mcllroy, who will be joining the company in May, in a newly created role to focus on sales for Etrading Software and Artis Holding’s new loan technology partnership.
Gresham Technologies has appointed Marc Cavell to spearhead business development across North America. Cavell brings over ten years of fintech experience spanning corporate banking, financial messaging, payments, and cash management, previously holding sales roles at Fundtech and Finastra where he managed key accounts in the US market.
Eric Isenberg was named Head of Quantitative Solutions, Global Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. In this role, he is responsible for portfolio management of all passive fixed income funds, including index replication and smart beta fixed income funds.
David Stevens has joined Aquis Exchange in the newly-created role of Chief Revenue Officer. Stevens, who will be based in London, will oversee the sales and client servicing activities across all geographies and across a number of Aquis’ revenue streams – Aquis Exchange, Aquis Stock Exchange and data.
According to Bloomberg, a number of senior traders have left HSBC Holdings’s U.S. business in recent months as the bank restructures its operations in New York and around the world. Head of Equities for the Americas Tom O’Leary is among the departures. Leon McIntyre has assumed O’Leary’s role in addition to his role of Global Head of Program Trading.
