MayStreet, a market data infrastructure provider, appointed Manisha Kimmel as Chief Policy Officer. Manisha joins MayStreet from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she served as Senior Policy Advisor, Regulatory Reporting in the Office of the Chairman. During her two-year tenure at the agency, she was instrumental in the successful implementation of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), working with various internal and industry stakeholders to get the high-profile system live. Prior to the SEC, Manisha served as Head of Regulatory and Compliance, Wealth Management, at Refinitiv.
Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, appointed Von M. Hughes to the company’s Board of Directors as an independent director, effective March 1, 2021. Mr. Hughes is a Partner and Managing Director of PAAMCO Prisma, where he serves as Head of Strategic Advisory & Client Acquisition. He was appointed to the Board of Directors for PAAMCO Prisma Holdings LLC in 2018.
Siepe, a provider of technology, data and analytics, appointed Charles Chien as Chief Revenue Officer. Chien will be responsible for Siepe’s go-to-market strategy and overseeing the sales and product teams on the software side of the business. Prior to joining Siepe, Charles was Managing Director, Business Technology for 16 years at Canyon Partners, a $23B multi-strategy hedge fund, where he was responsible for technology strategy and development for all functions. Before that, Charles was a software engineer at Advent Software (now SS&C) where he developed the bank debt module in Geneva, a portfolio accounting system.
Kirk McKeown left his position as head of proprietary research at Steve Cohen’s Point72 hedge fund, Insider reported, citing people familiar with the matter and an internal memo. McKeown, who joined the firm eight years ago and created its Canvas Fundamental Research Group, had been deliberating his departure for weeks and is leaving to start a data and research company, Insider reported, citing the memo.
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing named Nicolas Aguzin, head of JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s international private bank, as its new chief executive officer. The 52-year-old banker was appointed to a three-year term and will replace Charles Li, also a former JP Morgan banker, who announced his resignation in May and left at the end of last year after a decade at the helm.
Swiss digital asset startup Valour appointed Diana Biggs, former global head of innovation at HSBC Private Banking, as its CEO. Biggs joined HSBC as head of business model innovation for UK and Europe in 2017 before taking on the role of global head of innovation for private banking in 2019. She left the bank last September. Biggs has also been an Industry Advisor with University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies and has had stints at Uphold and Anthemis Group.
