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Nasdaq’s Quandl, a provider of alternative and core financial data, has appointed Hamza Khan as Head of European Data. Khan was formerly the CEO and founder of Suburbia, a technology company that specialised in alternative data solutions.
Based in Amsterdam with connections across the continent on the buy and sell side, Khan will lead the organisation’s data strategy in Europe and help expand its presence in the European market.
Khan began his career as a quantitative analyst and was the head of commodities strategy at ING prior to founding Suburbia. Khan brings to Nasdaq a deep understanding of both
Global litigation funder, Therium Capital Management, announced today that Ben Smyth has joined the firm’s investment team as an Investment Officer.Smyth joins Therium following a decade at UBS Investment Bank, where he was most recently Head of Benelux and Nordics within the bank’s Financial Institutions Debt Capital Markets (DCM) advisory group. In this role, Smyth advised some of the largest Banks and Insurance companies in Northern Europe, on optimisation of their liability profile.
Prior to UBS, Smyth was an Associate Director at ABN AMRO Bank NV, where he was responsible for DCM across Benelux, UK and Ireland. His career
Meraki Global Advisors has appointed David C Laub Jr as a senior trader in the New York office. Meraki’s client base has expanded among the tri-state multi-asset hedge fund community since the establishment of its New York outpost in April 2020, led by the firm’s Head of Business Development, Michael Ashby.Laub’s expertise across asset classes will further enhance the services Meraki provides to its sophisticated client base.
“We are excited to welcome David to the Meraki team,” says Gregory Sutton, COO at Meraki Global Advisors. “As a 20 year veteran of the hedge fund industry, he has valuable expertise across
CloudMargin, creator of a collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, has appointed Mario Platt as Vice President, Head of Information Security. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has appointed Gary Vann as Head of Sales.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Acuity Trading is expanding its team with the appointment of Vladislav Novopoltsev as a Product Manager and Gustavo Avalos as a Data Scientist. As a Product Manager Novopoltsev will be based in Acuity’s Spanish office in Barcelona where he will utilise his previous experience of financial newswires, machine learning algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to optimise the performance of Acuity’s suite of products while ensuring the company’s global clients can access both excellent products and exceptional customer service.
“Acuity Trading’s goal is to solve some unique problems for the customers (be it brokers, investors, or market professionals) using AI technology
Sanne, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate business services, has appointed Jan Barre as Director of Business Development.
SFOX, an independent crypto prime broker, providing global liquidity and best price execution from a single account, has appointed Shawn Egger as Head of Execution Services. In this role, Egger will be responsible for globally expanding the distribution of SFOX’s execution and liquidity services and managing the firm’s institutional client-facing business in digital assets for liquidity, trade execution and prime services.
Egger joins SFOX from Jefferies, where he was the Senior Vice President of FX Sales Trader and previously held the position of Head of FX Sales at Euronext, the largest stock exchange in Europe, and Head of FX Market Making
Jenny Chen has been appointed as Managing Director, Head of Sales in the Americas a big xyt, an independent provider of market data analytics and smart data solutions. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ), a law firm serving the financial services industry, has added Douglas S Mintz as a partner and co-chair of the Business Reorganisation Group. Mintz, who is based in the Washington, DC office, was previously a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.Mintz’s practice focuses principally on the representation of creditors in financial restructurings, including secured and unsecured lenders, ad hoc committees of noteholders, equity sponsors and distressed investors. He has deep experience advising on public finance, energy, commodities and technology restructurings. At Orrick, Mintz co-led the firm’s hedge fund client initiative, representing private investment funds in
