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Itarle, a provider of high-performance, best execution services, algorithmic execution and analytics services to trading venues, has appointed James Thorpe as Regional Manager of its Chicago office to further boost its presence across North America.
Thorpe joins Itarle from Clear Capital Group, a proprietary trading group (PTG) in Chicago where he served as CEO. Prior to that, he was CEO of Mercury Derivatives, part of The Hertshten Group, where he managed the company’s day-to-day expansion across China before managing the global trading group with over 250 million Futures contracts traded annually.
“James’ extensive knowledge in short term interest rates (STIR)
Camilo Lyon has joined BTIG’s Research and Strategy division to launch coverage across the consumer sector, focusing on lifestyle and wellness brands.
He will be based in the firm’s New York office, and will report to David Lenchus, Director of Research at BTIG.
Lyon has more than 20 years of industry experience. He has spent the majority of his career covering the consumer sector inclusive of multi-national retail brands and emerging luxury, lifestyle, wellness and healthy living, fashion and beauty companies. Lyon has analysed companies within the sector for several global financial services firms. At BTIG, his coverage will focus
BTIG has appointed Stefanie Gianakis as Director of Recruitment based in New York. In this new role, she will be responsible for staffing new and established business units across BTIG’s product lines.
“With more than 20 years of recruiting experience at investment banks and hedge funds, Stefanie is uniquely qualified to help advance BTIG’s global hiring initiatives,” says Scott Kovalik, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BTIG. “She will drive our hiring strategy and tap into new sources of talent for our firm to effectively grow headcount and staff new ventures. Stefanie’s extensive experience managing the recruitment process for candidates across
The Maples Group, a service provider offering clients a range of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services, has made a number of strategic hires to its team in the Cayman Islands.
Luana Guilfoyle, Nicolas Rogivue, Sonja Salmon, Nadish Seebaluck, and Linval Stewart have joined as Vice Presidents within the Maples Group’s fiduciary services team to provide specialist services to a broad range of structured finance transactions and special purpose vehicles.
With no sign of any slowdown in the pace of regulatory change and compliance obligations continuing to grow, it has become critical for
French asset manager Axiom Alternative Investments has appointed Gilles Frisch as Senior Portfolio Manager for its new UCITS format, long-short credit fund.
Frisch brings over 26 years’ experience in the investment management industry, having most recently held the role of Head of High Yield at Swiss Life Asset Management since 2010. He began his career in 1993 as a quantitative analyst at both Société Générale and Paribas Capital Markets before joining Transoptions Finance as an exotic options trader. In 1996, Gilles joined Dexia Asset Management, where he held the position of Alternative Portfolio Manager prior to his appointment as Senior
AxiomSL, a provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has appointed Claudia Thurner as EMEA general manager.
An experienced financial technology leader, Thurner has extensive expertise in client relationship management and solution and service delivery. She joins AxiomSL from SmartStream Technologies where she led European and Latin American Sales and Global Strategic Accounts. Previously, she was at Thomson Reuters based in Europe, Asia, and the US where she specialised in risk management business and product development.
“We are thrilled to welcome Claudia to AxiomSL during this important expansion period,” says Alex Tsigutkin, Founder and CEO of AxiomSL. “Her proven
Luminex Trading & Analytics, a buy side-owned trading venue delivering efficient, low-cost block executions, has added three veteran financial and technology professionals, spurred by growing engagement with the platform by its community of investment management firms.
Joshua Reed has joined as a Sales and Relationship Manager, Joshua Opper has joined as Director of Infrastructure and Robin Burr has joined as a Software Engineer.
Since its launch in November 2015, trading among Luminex’s participants has grown steadily, as the venue is fulfilling its promise as a destination dedicated to delivering low-cost block trading with minimal information leakage. In September 2019,
JTC, a provider of fund, corporate and private wealth services to institutional and private clients, has appointed Erika Schraner as an Independent Non-Executive Director.
Schraner brings to the Board a wealth of experience and expertise in professional services, with particular strength in the areas of commercial development, M&A and technology. A dual Swiss-US national, Schraner obtained an MS & BA in Mathematics from EPFL Switzerland before going on to complete a PhD in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, USA.
Schraner began her post education executive career with IBM Corp in Silicon Valley and also worked for global
IPSX Group (International Property Securities Exchange), which operates a regulated securities exchange dedicated to commercial property, has appointed Peter Wyllie to the role of Director, Capital Markets, reporting into Roger Clarke, Head of Capital Markets.
The IPSX team now comprises 17, following a number of hires over recent months as the management prepares for the next stages of the business’s development and works towards its first IPOs in the first half of next year.
Most recently a partner at the international hedge fund advisory firm, Sussex Partners, Wyllie brings around 35 years of capital markets experience to IPSX.
Ares Management Corporation has appointed Michael Schechter as Partner and Head of Credit Trading.
Based in Los Angeles, Schechter will oversee the trading of all bank loans, high yield and related credit instruments in the US and Europe. In this new position, Schechter will work with Ares’ existing senior trading professionals, portfolio managers and management to set and execute Ares’ trading agenda.
“We are pleased to welcome Michael to Ares in his new position as the leader of our Credit Group’s trading team,” says Kipp deVeer, Partner and Head of the Ares Credit Group. “Michael brings extensive knowledge and deep
