Monex Europe, a European corporate FX and hedging provider, has strengthened its leadership team with the appointments of Tom Farrow, group director of trading and William Crossley, group sales director to the firm’s board of directors. They will report into Nick Edgeley, chief executive officer at Monex Europe. FX industry front runners with over 25 years’ experience between them, Farrow and Crossley have been instrumental to Monex Europe’s growth and development, with the firm significantly enhancing its offering and expanding its global footprint into Luxembourg, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and Singapore since they joined in 2008 and 2010 respectively.

Bitfinex Securities Ltd, the tokenised securities trading platform of Bitfinex, has appointed Jesse Knutson as head of operations.

Another member of Blackstone’s hedge fund solutions group is leaving the firm in the wake of a change in leadership, according to a report by Bloomberg. The latest MD to depart is Michael Pierog, head of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management’s hedge fund seeding business, whose joined the firm in 2013 from Barclays Plc after having previously worked at Davidson Kempner Capital Management. Blackstone spokesperson Paula Chirhart confirmed in a statement that managing director Brian Snider will be promoted to succeed Pierog.

Dynamo Software, Inc, a market-leading provider of end-to-end cloud software for the alternative investment management industry, is growing its executive leadership team with the addition of three new hires.

Hedge fund Millennium Management has continued the expansion of its technology team with the appointment of Leon Stiel, Citi’s global head of cross asset ETF technology, as head of equities risk technology based in New York, according to a report by eFinancialCareeers. Stiel’s appointment is part of Millennium’s build out of its tech team under CTO Vlad Torgovnik in New York, London Singapore, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Tel Aviv, as well as a new technology hub in Miami.  The hedge fund is currently hiring quantitative researchers and machine learning specialists to work on its systematic equities team. 

Coremont, the operational support platform for investment managers that spun out of Brevan Howard in 2018, has hired Chaim Hack as its new head of business development.

Responsible investment specialist CCLA Investment Management has appointed Ben Funnell as head of investment solutions. Funnell joins CCLA from Man Group (and formerly GLG Partners before the acquisition), where he worked as Chief Equity Strategist and then Portfolio Manager for both equity and multi-asset funds. Prior to this, he was at Morgan Stanley for eleven years as a multi-award winning European Equity Strategist and sat on the global asset allocation committee for the Private Wealth Management business.   In his new position at CCLA, Funnell will be responsible for guiding investment strategy, conducting economic analysis and setting CCLA’s approach to

Talos, an institutional digital asset trading technology provider, has made four new key hires: Pamela Lee as head of APAC sales, Karan Dalwani as director of customer success for APAC, Phillip Beasley-Harling as VP of engineering for EMEA, and Conor Shea as head of marketing and communications. These appointments come on the heels of the company’s $105 million Series B funding round, which valued Talos at $1.25 billion. Lee comes to Talos from LMAX Group, where she was head of partnerships and the company’s APAC crypto business development lead.  Dalwani comes to Talos with 15 years of experience in a

State Street Digital, State Street Corporation’s dedicated digital division, has appointed Rob Otter as head of blockchain engineering and Nitin Gaur as digital technology strategy lead. Otter, based in London reports to Aman Thind, Chief Technology Officer of State Street Digital. Gaur, based in Austin, Texas, will report to Otter. In his new leadership role, Otter oversees the development and implementation of blockchain technology strategy across State Street Digital, identifying and executing on opportunities for innovation, and prioritising initiatives that will accelerate the division’s business goals.  Gaur will lead the technology strategy and architecture to drive the development of platforms

Alpha Theory, a portfolio management and decision process platform for the alternative investment industry, has added fintech industry veteran Jaime Bean to its sales and business development team. Bean brings nearly two decades of business development and technology experience, having held senior roles at fintech companies Code:Red (now FactSet), Ledgex and Sentieo (now AlphaSense). Leveraging his strong interpersonal and communication skills, he will focus on creating opportunities for fund managers to leverage their data in more meaningful and insightful ways using Alpha Theory.