Also appointed to join the rates trading team at Citi are Fiachra Harnett and Michele Beretta who join as a director and vice president respectively. In the US, Yun Zhou was appointed managing director in interest rate options trading based in New York. Zhou joins from Brevan Howard after a previous stint at Morgan Stanley in an interest rate trading focused role.

Societe Generale appointed Jeffrey Mortara as global co-head of equity capital markets, joining Luis Vas Pinto in leading the bank’s ECM objectives. Mortara joined from UBS, where he previously served as global co-head of equity capital markets, leading a team of equity and equity-linked individuals in the US, Europe and Asia. Before UBS, Mortara served at Deutsche Bank, where he built out the bank’s ECM practice in technology, media and telecoms (TMT) and financial institutions. While at Deutsche Bank, he also served as head of TMT banking, both in Silicon Valley and in Europe, based in London.

Dan Monckton, former EMEA head of program and electronic trading at Credit Suisse, joined Cantor Fitzgerald as co-head of EMEA electronic execution services. Prior to the move, Monckton spent two decades at Credit Suisse in a range of program trading related senior positions. His expertise includes managing algo, DMA and low latency cash and derivatives businesses as well as driving client coverage and product development. In his most recent position, he managed a total headcount of 30, including five managing directors, across four countries. Before this, he spent five and a half years at Morgan Stanley, working in program trading sales.

Former head of Asia Pacific at FactSet Research Systems, Vin Bhat, was appointed senior vice president and head of APAC at Charles River Development (CRD), a State Street company. In his new role, Bhat will be responsible for collaboration with front-to-back asset serving platform, State Street Alpha, as well as overseeing all business in the region. Prior to joining CRD, Bhat worked in various senior positions over 25 years, focused on sales, consulting, and engineering. Before joining FactSet, he spent a decade at Tata Consultancy Services.

Wematch.live appointed Grant Davies head of equities sales for the EMEA region, effective as of 15 May. Davies brings over two decades experience in securities finance to the firm, having held various leadership positions at EquiLend, JP Morgan and BlackRock. His expertise ranges across collateral management, ETF capital markets, securities lending, and total return swaps (TRS). Within the TRS space, Davies served as head of business development at Sunrise’s Matchbox, where he played a key role in launching and expanding the equity TRS platform.

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Davies brings over two decades experience in securities finance to the firm, having held various leadership positions at EquiLend, JP Morgan and BlackRock.

His expertise ranges across collateral management, ETF capital markets, securities lending, and total return swaps (TRS).

Within the TRS space, Davies served as head of business development at Sunrise’s Matchbox, where he played a key role in launching and expanding the equity TRS platform.

“[Grant’s] extensive experience, industry knowledge, and leadership skills will be instrumental in driving our growth and further solidifying our position as a leading fintech platform in the securities financing space,” said David Raccat, chief revenue officer and co-founder of Wematch.

“Grant’s hire, along with our other appointments, underscores our commitment to providing our clients with the highest level of expertise and service.”

Davies’ appointment follows a string of recent hires at Wematch over the last few weeks. Most recently, David Culshaw was named global head of fixed income, while Vinesh Patel joined as head of APAC coverage.

The firm noted that these strategic additions to its team demonstrate the company’s commitment to expanding its global presence and enhancing its services to clients worldwide.

“I am excited to join Wematch at a pivotal point in their evolution and embrace the opportunity to contribute to the company’s mission of transforming the securities financing industry through innovation and collaboration,” said Davies.

“I look forward to working with the talented team at Wematch and continuing to deliver exceptional value to our clients to drive the future of securities finance.”

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Casey Crawford was appointed institutional municipal trader, vice president, at RBC, joining from Citi. New-York based Crawford was previously vice president, municipals trading at Citi having spent a decade with the firm. His previous positions at the bank include: gold international finance analyst, private bank investment analyst and private bank fixed income analyst. Crawford also has experience working at Aon Hewitt and UBS earlier in his career. 

SimCorp appointed Allen Zimmerman as managing director, head of Americas, set to lead SimCorp within the region – including the firm’s analytics business Axioma. His focus will be on defining strategic direction and helping realise SimCorp’s growth aspirations in the Americas. He joined from BlackRock, where he served as a managing director, focusing on business development for the firm’s investment management technology offering since 2015. Zimmerman brings 18 years of experience in financial services, including senior roles with the portfolio analytics and quantitative models businesses at Barclays and Citi. He also has experience in front-office modelling. Based in New York, Zimmerman will report to Oliver Johnson, chief revenue officer, and will focus on furthering growth within the Americas region.    
  
BMO Capital Markets appointed Harj Bagria within its electronic trading division, The TRADE revealed last week. Bagria joined BMO from Credit Suisse, where he spent nearly five years. Most recently, Bagria held an EMEA equity trading position, based in London. Elsewhere in his tenure at Credit Suisse, Bagria held APAC equity trading and electronic sales trading positions, based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Bagria spent two and a half years at Deutsche Bank, most recently as head of electronic execution sales for APAC. This followed an eight-year stint at Citi, where he held electronic sales trading roles in both London and Hong Kong. Elsewhere in his career, Bagria held an analyst position at Lehman Brothers. 
 
Wematch.live appointed David Culshaw as global head of fixed income; a newly created role which reflects the fintech’s expansion into the fixed income space. Culshaw joined Wematch.live from Brevan Howard spinout, SigTech, where he served as global head of business development. Elsewhere, Culshaw held a leadership role at CME Group’s BrokerTec, where he held responsibility for the commercial development of the firm’s dealer-to-client RFQ repo platform across EMEA and North America. Culshaw has a background working with both the buy- and sell-side across a range of financial products including interest rate derivatives, securities financing and cash bonds.  

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