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Wedbush Securities has appointed Adam Greenberg as Vice President of Prime Brokerage in the firm’s New York office. Greenberg will tap his extensive network of hedge fund and service providers to generate exclusive opportunities for the firm’s prime brokerage clients.
Greenberg’s career in prime services spans over a decade, starting with Barclays, before spells with both Wells Fargo Securities and Clear Street.
Greenberg received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Bentley University and holds his Series 7, 63 and 99 licenses.
Toh Ne Win has become the latest Morgan Stanley Managing Director to make a switch to the buy-side, leaving the bank after more than two decades to join hedge fund Millennium Management as Head of Risk Technology, according to a report by eFinancialCareers.
While the multi-strategy major founded by Izzy Englander has recently been focusing its tech team on Miami rather then New York, Win will be staying in the Big Apple where he spent the last 20 years and two months with Goldman, most recently serving as Chief Data Officer for Global Markets.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Win
Citadel Securities, the market-making firm owned by Ken Griffin, founder of multi-strategy hedge fund major Citadel, has appointed Tony Tang, the former head of BlackRock’s China business, to head up its operations in China, according to a report by Reuters.
BlueCrest Capital Management, the family office founded by Mike Platt which is “definitely not a hedge fund”, has continued its recent hiring spree with the addition of two portfolio managers in Singapore, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Digital Currency Group, the company that owns cryptocurrency trading, lending, and asset custody platform Genesis, and digital currency asset manager Greyscale Investments, has appointed Mark Shifke as its Chief Financial officer, according to a report by CoinDesk.
Point72 Asset Management, the $27.2bn hedge fund firm founded by Steve Cohen, has continued its recent hiring spree with the addition of portfolio managers in both New York and London, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Siddharth Mehla joined the fund’s New York office this month having spent the previous 17 years at Barclays, most recently as an options trader. Mehla, a graduate of the Indian Institution of Technology, was part of Barclays 2019 class of managing directors.
Neil Tanna, meanwhile, joined Point72 earlier this month in London from Balyasny, where he was an associate portfolio manager focused on
Members of the Hedge Fund Association, an international nonprofit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation for the alternative investment industry, have re-elected Alexander Reyes, and elected Paul Gray, Rob Hartnett and Krista Oldfield, to serve on the association’s 2023 Global Board of Directors.
Balyasny Asset Management has continued to build out its senior team in Dubai with the appointment of Tarek Rizk, the Global Head of Alternative Investments at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), as its new head of the Mena region, according to a report by Financial News.
Several senior staff in $13bn multi-strategy hedge fund firm Schonfeld’s technology and recruitment teams have recently left the business even as the company continues on a big recruitment drive that started earlier this year, according to a report by Business Insider.
Crypto Facilities, a multilateral trading facility for derivatives referencing crypto assets which allows institutional clients to trade contracts long and short, has appointed ex-True Arrow Capital Management COO and CFO Mark Jennings as its new CEO.
In the past, Jennings was COO and CFO for US quantitative hedge fund True Arrow Capital Management, and previously worked in hedge fund services for both Credit Suisse and Citi.
Before moving to London-based Crypto Facilities, he was the COO for its parent firm Kraken’s European Operations, playing a key role in establishing and enhancing Kraken’s regional footprint.
Jennings said: “Institutions want exposure to
