NYSE Euronext is making a series of management changes that aim to further align the company’s European and US cash trading and listings businesses. 

Commissioner Walt Lukken is resigning from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, effective 10 July 2009.

AlphaMetrix, a managed account platform for institutional and accredited investors, has hired Richard Meade to the newly-created position of executive director of client relations.

MKM Partners has appointed Brian Cumberland as managing director of research sales, responsible for managing the firm’s sales team globally.

Alignment Investors, a division of BlueCrest Capital Management, has hired three investment professionals to expand its team managing absolute return focused fixed income investments.

E-Trade Financial has appointed Kenneth C. Griffin, founder and chief executive of Citadel Investment Group, to its board of directors.

Henry McVey, who previously worked at Morgan Stanley for more than a decade, is returning to the firm as head of global macro and asset allocation for Morgan Stanley Investment Manageme

GlobeOp Financial Services has appointed risk management and credit risk model expert Dr. Stuart Turnbull as senior adviser to risk services.

Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management has added four hires to the firm’s US private wealth management group.

Jefferies has added six professionals to its quantitative strategies sales and trading effort, which includes algorithmic trading and other quantitative-based trading solutions for inst