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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
Eventus Systems, a multi-award winning global trade surveillance and risk management software platform provider, has appointed Vincent Turcotte as Sales Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, operating out of Hong Kong. Turcotte has more than three decades of experience at exchanges, broker-dealers and futures commission merchants (FCMs), most recently as Director, Asia Pacific for Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
Reporting to Scott Schroeder, Eventus Global Head of Sales, Turcotte will play a key role in further building on the firm’s regional presence, which it established in Singapore in 2018. Eventus has also expanded its footprint in Europe this year; David Ririe
City based investment management firm, Vector Wealth, has expanded its team with the appointment of three new senior hires. Part of algorithmic trading operation, Vector Capital Group, Vector Wealth delivers portfolio management to investors across the globe, resulting in average annual returns of 11 per cent.
Regulated by the FCA, the firm made the decision to expand its senior team in order to diversify its investment portfolio and to continue to deliver competitive returns to its growing client base, despite the challenge presented by Covid-19.
A profound entrepreneur and founder of multiple successful businesses within the property and financial markets, including The
DFG Investment Advisers (DFG), an alternative credit investment manager, has appointed Rehan Virani as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Virani will oversee management of the firm, spearhead strategic fundraising initiatives and develop tailored investment solutions that align investors’ interests with DFG’s core competencies in structured and corporate credit. Virani most recently served as Head of Business Development for private debt for the Americas and Asia at Partners Group.
In connection with Virani’s appointment, DFG is expanding its leadership team with the promotions of Kashyap Arora to Co-Chief Investment Officer, Selma Cilka to Co-Chief Risk Officer, and Alex Nerguizian to
Brevan Howard, the high-profile global macro hedge fund manager founded by Alan Howard, has rehired Cove Capital founder and CIO Louis Basger, who previously spent six years at Brevan in Geneva.
Before setting up his own Geneva-based manager, Basger was at Brevan Howard Asset Management between 2010 and 2016, initially as a trade analyst and later a portfolio manager for the firm’s main Brevan Howard Master Fund.
He was earlier an associate at Morgan Stanley between 2005 and 2010, working in the US bank’s fixed income sales and trading division in London.
Basger will start at Brevan Howard on 1
Axyon AI, an AI provider for the asset management industry, has appointed Giovanni Beliossi as an advisor to the business. Beliossi joins Axyon with more than 25 years’ experience in the financial markets, including in advisory, investment and management roles within the alternative investment, hedge fund and derivative sectors. Giovanni will be focusing on Axyon AI’s offering for the hedge fund industry.
Axyon AI provides deep learning powered solutions that help asset managers deliver more efficient and innovative investment products. The company, founded by a team of engineers and physicists, includes UniCredit and ING Bank NV among its investors and
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has expanded its Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) to reflect a broader geographic reach following the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) designation of the DSB as the Unique Product Identifier (UPI) Service Provider.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Global multi-asset manager Fulcrum Asset Management has hired Filippo Cartiglia, former chief international economist at Arrowgrass Capital Partners, as a senior member of its investment team.
