Eric Heleine, head of the buy-side trading desk at Groupama Asset Management, is set to step away from the firm before the end of the year, as revealed by The TRADE. His departure comes in the wake of the new Groupama-Amundi partnership – which he has led for the last two years. Heleine is not set to join the new offering, and instead will be moving on to embrace a new challenge according to sources familiar with the matter. Heleine had been with Groupama AM for 15 and a half years and has also previously worked in other buy-side roles at firms including BGC Partners and Etoile Gestion.
Citi has expanded its FX markets team in Asia with the appointment of two new individuals, according to an internal memo seen by The TRADE. Anand Goyal was appointed head of FX institutional sales for Japan, Asia North, Australia and Asia South, based in Singapore. Goyal joins from JP Morgan where he had been serving as head of macro FX and real money sales for Asia Pacific. Alongside him, Hooi Wan Ng was appointed head of markets for Malaysia. She also joins from JP Morgan where she had been serving as head of local corporate sales and private side sales.
Hugh Whelan was named head of liquidity management and data strategy at SGX FX, having previously worked as head of CME Group owned EBS Direct. Specifically, London-based Whelan will be responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and growth of the liquidity provider client segment. He is also set to develop the data products within SGX FX. Whelan’s career has had a strong focus on FX markets, having previously led the launch of EBS Direct into a new bilateral FX trading venue – which is now owned by CME Group.
Muzinich & Co appointed George Kierton as a trader based in London. He joined from Amundi, where he spent the last two and a half years, most recently as a senior fixed income trader. Elsewhere in his career, Kierton served as a fixed income trader at BMO Global Asset Management and MUFG.