People
Digital Vega, an FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, has made three senior appointments – Simon Nursey as Head of Asia, Asa Attwell as Head of Product Development, and Laura Winkler, EMEA Relationship Manager.
Nursey joins from Standard Chartered Bank, where he was Head of FX Options Trading in Asia since 2012. Prior to this he was Global Head of Currency Options trading at BNP Paribas for 17 years, working in both London and Singapore.
Attwell was previously Head of EMEA FX and Emerging Markets at Nomura. Prior to this he worked at BNP Paribas
Financial services provider Apex Group has appointed Renaud Oury as Group Chief Data Officer (CDO) and as a member of the Executive Committee.
The creation of this role strengthens Apex’s position as an industry leader and reflects its commitment to building a data driven organisation.
Oury’s, whose appointment is effective immediately, is based in Luxembourg, one of Apex’s largest service centres, and as CDO he will be responsible for developing and managing a comprehensive analytics strategy for the Group. His priority will be to leverage data and information to improve efficiencies, enhance client service and support the Group’s future
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM) has appointed Alexey Bachurin as the firm’s new Head of equity trading. Bachurin will be based in London, reporting to co-heads of Global Equities Luis Saenz and Oleg Achkasov.
As part of his new role, Bachurin will be responsible for equities execution with an emphasis on global markets. As Head of equity trading, Alexey will also oversee all BCS GM’s Equities Trading departments.
With more than 20 years’ experience in the financial sector, Bachurin joins BGS GM having held senior management positions within equity trading at the likes of IFC Metropol, Metallinvestbank and Renaissance
UK financial services broker The Fiducia Group has launched Fiducia Corporate Finance which the company says will provide a bespoke corporate service for debt and equity fund raising for entrepreneurs and companies.
It will offer advice, specialising in: equity capital raising, debt capital raising, disposals, acquisitions, refinancing, restructuring and general corporate strategic advice.
Fiducia Corporate Finance will operate in the UK, and across European and global markets both for introductions and placements.
Fiducia Corporate Finance will be headed up by Laurence Goodman who has ambitious plans to develop and grow this sector for the group. Laurence is a
Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of Man Group, has appointed Louis Rieu as co-portfolio manager on Man GLG’s RI European Equity strategy. Based in London, Rieu will work alongside Mike Canfield, lead portfolio manager.
Man GLG’s RI European Equity strategy incorporates key environmental, social and governance (ESG) themes within an active, concentrated portfolio of high conviction European stocks that are leading the way with sustainable behaviours and policies. The strategy is an evolution of Man GLG’s European Equity strategy and allows the team to incorporate ESG factors and analysis to a proven research and investment process. As a
Mediolanum International Funds Ltd (MIFL), the Irish asset management division of the Mediolanum Banking Group, has appointed Damian Barry as the new Head of Multi-Asset Multi-Management, reporting to Chief Investment Officer, Christophe Jaubert.
In this newly created role, Barry will be developing MIFL’s multi-asset offering – an ever increasingly important component of MIFL’s product suite. “With growing client demand for more outcome-oriented solutions, particularly in the currently uncertain landscape, Damian’s focus will be ensuring MIFL meets client expectations by navigating the challenges of fluctuating markets,” says Christophe Jaubert (pictured).
Barry will be responsible for overseeing MIFL’s multi-asset multi-manager portfolios
BMLL Technologies, a Data-Engineering-as-a-Service company, has appointed Lee Hodgkinson, CEO of golbal derivatives trading and education firm OSTC, as Chairman of tsh Board, having been appointed a non-executive Director.
Hodgkinson’s practical industry and exchange experience complements the firm’s existing data engineering and analytics capabilities and supports BMLL’s growth ambitions to provide more capital markets participants with data access and advanced analytics capacity.
Currently, Hodgkinson is the CEO of OSTC, a a global derivatives trading and education firm, which operates from 12 offices around the world and is a provider of liquidity to global derivatives exchanges. Over his 30-year career
MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Ramona Heine as Non-Executive Director for the board of MUFG Investor Services Holdings Limited, the organisation’s holding company.
Heine is the first woman appointed to the six-member board.
In this role, Heine will be focused on shaping the firm’s acquisition and growth strategy, helping to develop and achieve MUFG’s vision for the future while ensuring the highest quality corporate governance. She will be based in New York and will join the board effective immediately.
“We are thrilled to have Ramona join the board
Global law firm Goodwin has opened a new office in Luxembourg. Together with Goodwin’s existing London-based Luxembourg desk, the new office will serve as a single solution for the firm’s global clients raising and deploying capital in Europe.
“With a market-leading funds practice in the United States and Europe, and now an on-the-ground presence in Luxembourg to augment our well-established, London-based Luxembourg desk, Goodwin is uniquely positioned to serve multi-national financial institutions, fund sponsors and asset managers looking to do business in this favoured international jurisdiction,” says Rob Insolia, Chairman of Goodwin. “As the firm at the confluence of capital
SYZ Asset Management, the institutional asset management arm of SYZ Group, has named macroeconomic and currencies specialist Stephen Jen as chairman of the firm’s advisory board on total return startegies.
Jen is CEO and co-CIO of Eurizon SLJ Capital, a London-based asset management company specialised in emerging market debt, currency management and macroeconomic research, and part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Banking Group. He has been appointed as chairman of the external advisory board on the recently formed total return strategies team, headed by Adrien Pichoud. The advisory board will work closely with Pichoud and the total return strategies team, benefitting
