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Financial services tech provider Iress has appointed Rob Kirby as Head of Sales and Business Development for the EMEA region at QuantHouse, part of Iress and a provider of API data feeds to hedge funds, investment banks, brokers, market makers, financial technology providers and trading venues.
Nomura has appointed hedge fund veteran David Seif as Managing Director and Chief Economist for Developed Markets. Based in New York, Seif reports to Rob Subbaraman, Head of Global Macro Research, and Paul Nikodem, Head of US Fixed Income Research.
Global fintech specialist Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Frank Troise as President of Broadridge Trading & Connectivity Solutions and Vice Chairman of Broadridge Capital Markets, effective 29 April 2024.
Patrick Dowd, Head of Credit at Viking Global Investors, a US-based hedge fund firm focused on early and late stage venture investments, has left the company after three years, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Brevan Howard, the Jersey-headquartered global macro hedge fund firm co-founded by Alan Howard, has added to its digital assets arm with the appointment of Dmitrii Mylnev from London-based digital bank Revolut as a Senior Software Engineer.
Chris LaSusa, who co-founded stock-focused hedge fund KCL Capital with Kevin Cottrell, has joined hedge fund Paloma Partners Management as Head of Long-Short Equity, according to a report by Pensions & Investments.
Jain Global, Millennium Management alumnus Bobby Jain’s much-anticipated, multi-strategy hedge fund firm which is gearing up for a $6bn summer launch, has filled another Portfolio Manager slot with the recruitment of Venor Capital Co-CIO Jeff Bersh, according to a report by Business Insider.
James Regan has left UBS in London, where he held the position of Co-Head: Global G11 & PM STIR Trading, to take up a Portfolio Manager position in New York at multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund firm Verition Fund Management.
The world’s nine biggest multi-strategy hedge fund firms – Citadel, Millennium, Balyasny, Point72, Verition, Schonfeld, Walleye, Eisler and ExodusPoint – now employ a combined 15,665 people, with almost half that total (7,103) being in investment roles, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Citadel has appointed Zheng Wang, a former Senior Software Engineer at San Francisco-based self-driving vehicle technology specialist Cruise, as a software Engineer based in the multi-strategy major’s New York headquarters.

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