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Alameda Research (Alameda), a global cryptocurrency quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider, has appointed Caroline Ellison and Sam Trabucco as co-CEOs.
As co-CEOs, Ellison and Trabucco together will oversee all operations at Alameda while also collaborating to execute on the strategy the organisation. The pair will focus on managing the trading desk as well as overseeing both internal and back-office operations. They will also look to expand the Company’s capabilities through the continued development of best-in-class technology and within the traditional finance sector through potential business development.
Ellison joined Alameda as a trader in March of 2018. Prior to
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord (Philip) Hammond of Runnymede, has joined Copper.co, a London-based provider of digital asset custody and trading infrastructure, as a Senior Adviser. He takes up this role with immediate effect.  
Hammond will provide strategic advice to the Copper team as the company expands globally. Copper announced the launch of its US East Coast office in August 2021 with plans to launch in Asia already underway. Significant global growth follows the completion of an extended USD75 million funding round in June 2021, led by investor Alan Howard, and venture capital firms Dawn Capital and Target
Foreign exchange risk management and payments specialist Ballinger & Co (Ballinger) has appointed Ashley Wardle as a Partner in the firm’s sales team.
Prior to joining Ballinger, Wardle was Head of Desk at Monex Europe for over thirteen years with a portfolio that included Magic Circle law firms, asset managers, global charities, private banks, international brands, and multinational corporate clients.
Ballinger is a specialist, independent provider of innovative foreign exchange risk management and Treasury services to corporate and institutional clients with large and complex FX requirements.
Wardle’s appointment follows a period of significant growth for Ballinger. In the
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM), the investment banking services division of Russia’s largest independent broker, has appointed Julien Mareschal as a new Chief Risk Officer at BCS UK.
Based in London, Mareschal’s primary role is to further develop and lead a robust and comprehensive risk management framework for the firm’s operations. He will also oversee risk management across multiple business lines and across BCS GM’s entire suite of investment banking solutions. Mareschal will report to BCS GM co-CEO Maxim Safonov, and Marina Atavadzhieva, Global Head of Risk, BCS GM.
Mareschal has over 20 years’ experience in financial risk management.
Bosonic Digital (Bosonic), a real-time and custodian agnostic clearing and settlement platform for digital assets, has added three Senior Advisors to its advisory board and made seven additions to its staff, bringing its team to 35, a 500 per cent growth rate year-to-date.
The strategic hires across technology, product and business development, and sales are in place to support and scale up the growth trajectory for Bosonic due to increased demand for the critical infrastructure it provides to eliminate crypto counterparty credit and settlement risk.
“As we begin to engage in our largest capital raise to date, our
KKR & Co (KKR) has appointed Joe Bae and Scott Nuttall as Co-Chief Executive Officers, while Co-Founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts will remain actively involved as Executive Co-Chairmen of KKR’s Board of Directors.
The leadership transition is effective immediately.
“Whether reflecting on the business, our mission or the team that undertakes it, we are proud of what we have built to support companies and serve our clients over the last four and a half decades. Joe and Scott—over the last 25 years—have played a significant role in that endeavour and in shaping the firm, its culture, and our market
Alternative credit-focused firm Selwood Asset Management has hired former Verrazzano Capital manager Karim Moussalem to launch a new equity long/short strategy.
FundGuard, an AI-powered investment management and asset servicing enterprise SaaS platform, continues its accelerated growth program with the appointment of John Lehner as President.
Lehner, who previously served as Global Head of State Street’s Investment Manager Services and CEO of BNY Mellon Technology Solutions, is responsible for driving the firm’s go-to-market strategy and client-facing activities including broader expansion globally, onboarding and servicing new clients, establishing new client relationships and working closely with product teams to build and roll out product strategy and marketing.
FundGuard helps asset managers and fund administrators to manage mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance products, and
SFOX, a digital asset prime broker focused on helping hedge funds embrace and expand crypto trading, has added two former Wall Street trading veterans, Eddy Sfeir and Daniella Gekhtman, to its senior sales team of institutional investors.
Monroe Capital LLC today announced Sweta Chanda has joined the firm as Managing Director, Head of Business Strategy based in the firm’s New York office. She will be responsible for firmwide strategy, product and corporate development, and new initiatives to expand Monroe’s global footprint.
Prior to Monroe, Sweta was a Director at New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM) within the Strategy and M&A team responsible for heading alternative investment strategy, where she helped launch a European Opportunistic Credit Fund, European CLO platform, GP Stakes Fund, and a Social Impact Fund amongst other strategic business development and growth opportunities for NYLIM.
