Ashley Watson has joined Panmure Liberum as an electronic equity trader following five years at Mirabaud Group.
They announced their new role in a social media post. Most recently, Watson served as an equity trader at Mirabaud, responsible for executing equities and ETFs across both high and low touch.
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Prior to this, London-based Watson spent almost 13 years at Sanford C. Bernstein, also working as an equity trader.
Panmure Gordon and Liberum announced that they were set to merge in January, with plans to create the UK’s largest independent investment bank.
The new firm – Panmure Liberum – is now a market maker in more than 750 stocks with all-cap execution capabilities and the trading platform has relationships with more than 900 counterparties across the UK, US, Europe and Asia.