The London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) former head of equities and derivatives, Nicolas Bertrand, joined Nomura-backed digital asset custodian Komainu as chief executive officer. Bertrand spent two decades working across the LSE and Borsa Italiana, before the latter was sold to Euronext in 2021. He was also a board member of Turquoise for almost eight years. Bertrand began his career at Citi, initially serving as an assistant portfolio manager and later as a manager.
Foreign exchange matching platform FX HedgePool appointed Karen Phillips as head of business development. Based in New York, Phillips oversees the firm’s sales and relationship management efforts, reporting directly to Jay Moore, chief executive and co-founder of FX HedgePool. She joined the firm from Refinitiv, where she served in a variety of roles over the last 21 years, most recently as Americas head of transactions sales and relationship management for FXall and matching.
Start-up United Fintech expanded its sales team with the appointment of Raj Rathor as head of sales for Athena Systems. Rathor joined the firm from Enfusion, where he served as vice president of sales. He holds 10 years’ experience in the financial technology sector, including product management and pre-sales engineering roles at buy-side vendor SimCorp. Prior to that, he served as an OTC execution broker at ICAP, covering bonds and swaps.