Liquidnet, a global institutional investment network, has appointed Brian Conroy as President, effective immediately. Conroy will work in partnership with CEO and Founder, Seth Merrin, and share the responsibility of providing strategic leadership for the company with a focus on building out new businesses both organically and through acquisition. “Liquidnet has brought a lot of innovation to the financial industry, and there is so much more we want to do,” says Merrin, Liquidnet CEO and Founder. “Brian thinks like we do, acts like we do, and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that supplements our own. We are very

Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing technology, has doubled its London office to cater for strong European growth over the course of the past year and through 2019. The announcement comes after Torstone grew by over 50 per cent in revenue year on year, which fuelled the hiring of over 50 per cent more staff in Europe and globally in 2018. On top of many new global client wins, Torstone signed two major European clients in its last quarter.   Most recently, Torstone was recognised by the Financial Technologist as one of the ‘20 Most Influential

Digital Vega, an FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, has made two senior appointments – Simon ‘Benny’ Lewis as Head of Interdealer Solutions, and Romain Camus as Head of Exotic Options. Lewis spent 20 years at Tullet Prebon, building a market leading exotic options desk from scratch. He was ultimately appointed as Global Head of FX Options, until retiring in 2016.   Camus joins from VTB where he was Executive Director, Head of Foreign Exchange Structuring. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as a Structurer. Romain has extensive financial markets experience, having

CMC Markets Institutional, a provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions, has added equity and derivative brokerage specialist Malcolm Ford to its team.   With thirty years of market experience working for companies ranging from start-ups to tier one banks, Ford will be responsible for spearheading CMC Markets’ move to provide an even more comprehensive service to the hedge fund industry.   Over the last three decades, Ford has worked with both the buy and sell side, liaising with clients right across Europe, Asia, South Africa and the USA. Previous roles have seen him representing industry mainstays such as

Jersey Finance has appointed experienced financial services professional Joe Moynihan as its new CEO. Moynihan (pictured), starts in his new position on 18 February and is taking over the reins from Geoff Cook, who is leaving after twelve years in the role.   An experienced financial services professional with a longstanding career in Jersey in both the private and public sector, Moynihan spent the majority of his executive career with AIB, latterly as the Chief Executive Officer of the Jersey and Isle of Man offices.   He then spent just under four years with the Government of Jersey as Director

International law firm CMS has appointed Ed Kingsbury as a partner in the firm’s funds practice in London. Kingsbury, who joins from Dechert, has significant experience advising a range of clients on investment funds and investment management arrangements.   Kingsbury has a particular interest in private equity, venture capital and credit funds, and acts for a range of investment firms and investors. His experience includes advising on investment funds through their life cycle, carried interest arrangements, ongoing house and regulatory issues, cornerstone investments into funds, complex secondaries, investment manager-related mergers and acquisitions and merging and de-merging asset managers.   He

Adaptive Financial Consulting, a capital markets consultancy specialising in the development and support of real-time trading platforms, has appointed Amanda Harrison as a Senior Sales Executive in London.                                          Harrison has spent the last six years working at Saxo Capital Markets UK Ltd initially as Head of Client and Partner support and more recently driving Wholesale business growth as Solution Sales. Prior to this, Amanda spent two years working in the institutional relationship management team at GFT Global Markets                                              Harrison

Templum Markets, a registered Broker Dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS), has appointed Bernard Van der Lande as Chief Issuance Officer (CIO).  Templum Markets operates a regulated technology platform for the private issuance and secondary trading of digitalised securities. As a member of the senior executive team, Van der Lande will lead Templum Market’s origination, issuance and distribution process.    Vince Molinari, CEO of Templum Markets, says: “Bernard’s extensive experience with traditional, cross-border and digitized capital formation strategies, his experience transacting and recapitalising a variety of public and private investment vehicles, and his global network of sophisticated institutional investors and