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Lee Hodgkinson is to be made head of NYSE Arca, the multilateral trading facility run by exchanges group NYSE Euronext, a spokesman has confirmed. read more »

Sanjay Agarwal has been named head of equity capital markets in India for MacQuarie Capital and Daryl Bowden has been made head of sales trading for Europe at Macquarie Securities Group. read more »

Japanese global investment bank Nomura has appointed Indraneil Borkakoty as head of equity capital markets for India. read more »

Barclays Capital, the investment banking business of Barclays Bank, has appointed Mike
Di Iorio to lead its equities trading division in Asia-Pacific. read more »

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has shuffled its European trading execution team following the promotion of Yvonne Hansmann, previously head of execution sales in EMEA, to head of equities for France. read more »

London-based investment banking group Execution Noble has hired Neil Bond to boost its portfolio and electronic trading team. read more »

Japanese investment bank Daiwa Capital Markets has appointed Meurig Williams as its regional head of equity for Europe and the Middle East, as part of a drive by the bank to grow its market share in the global equities markets. read more »

Japan-based investment bank Nomura has hired Jon Block as its new head of international trading in the Americas, as part of a drive by the firm to build up its product capabilities in the US, Latin America and Canada. read more »

Bursa Malaysia has appointed ex-Macquarie equities head Uday Jayaram as its new global head of securities markets. read more »

Buy-side technology provider ConvergEx Group is expanding its recently acquired prime brokerage services business, NorthPoint Trading Partners, with four new hires. read more »