Structured Portfolio Management, an asset management firm focusing on fixed income, has hired Vishal Bhutani as a managing director to trade within the SPM Opportunity fund. 

Investment management consultancy Laven Partners has appointed Robert Mirsky as managing director.

The Legis Group, specialists in fiduciary and fund administration, has appointed Adrian Relph as a director of Legis Trust Limited.

Ramius, a global alternative investment firm, has made two senior appointments in its marketing and client services group.

NYSE Euronext has appointed Vincent Van Dessel as chairman of the board of directors of Euronext Brussels and as a member of the managing board of Euronext N.V. 

Conduit Capital Markets, a mid-market institutional derivatives and securities dealer, has appointed Rakesh Chhabra as chief financial officer. 

RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada, has hired Nicolo Foschetti as a director in its structured interest rate sales group in London.

Jersey has been invited to take on the role of vice chair for a new peer review group set up by the OECD at its recent Global Forum on Tax Transparency and Exchange of Information.&nbsp

Aladdin Capital Holdings has appointed Kathleen Stephansen as chief economist. 

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has appointed Steven Schoenfeld as director of the division of market oversight.