Sell-Side

The new offering – known at STG Securities – is set to build on the Group’s existing technology and capital in order to “provide competitive liquidity across exchanges and partnerships”, said the firm.

In April 2025, The TRADE revealed that Stifel that it would be closing its UK-based equities trading business, with potential jobs cuts expected to follow, before the firm confirmed the decision in December 2025. 

The past week was one for the books in terms of people moves, with a new buy-side head of ETF capital markets for EMEA and APAC, as well as senior positions across the sell-side spanning market structure, equities, rates and derivatives. 

New hire joins the bank after 14 years at JP Morgan, where he set up and ran the firm’s continental sovereign, supranational, and agency (SSA) and credit repo trading desk in Paris. 

New hire will also serve in a dual-hatted role as country treasurer for Vietnam; she has previously held senior positions at Maybank and BNP Paribas.  

New hire is set to support the development of Investec’s ZebrA-X platform, and has also previously served at firms including Numis Securities and Canaccord Genuity.  

New hire is set to increase the firm’s global outsourced trading footprint, and joins after serving in the same position at Cantor Fitzgerald. 

Renewed investor appetite for emerging markets and evolving liquidity dynamics are reshaping trading strategies, agreed panellists speaking at the JSE SA Trade Connect conference in Cape Town. 

The partnership with support the German bank’s integrated order flow management services, enhancing transparency and execution quality analysis for its institutional client base.