Equities

New appointment previously held similar roles for both EMEA and the Americas at Barclays and Goldman Sachs.

Merrill Lynch becomes the fourth market maker to be onboarded since July last year, as well as being the first international market maker to conduct market making activities on Saudi equities.

The past week saw appointments across fixed income and equities, as well as the C-suite.

Regulatory fatigue a key factor in the underperformance of the European equity market a panel of experts at the FIX EMEA Trading Conference agreed.

Former co-head of equities electronic sales and trading at RBC Capital Markets takes on EMEA role, while ex-CIBC fixed income specialist also joins growing team.

Incoming individual is an equity markets specialist, having spent 16 years buying, selling and crossing European and emerging stocks at Credit Suisse.

FlexOMS has been deployed across JonesTrading’s equities and electronic trading business units, alongside being the full-service technology platform for its outsourced trading offering.

Incoming head previously served as portfolio manager/analyst; held various senior positions at AMP Capital before joining Macquarie.

Incoming individual is departing from Winterflood Securities after 14 years with the business.