Will Irwin was appointed director of FX institutional sales at Lloyds Bank North America, following his departure from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) where he had been serving in a similar role. Prior roles include four years as director of G10 and emerging markets FX at Dankse Bank, as well as director and FX trader at Societe Generale. Elsewhere, Irwin spent almost six years at Nordic universal bank Nordea, most recently serving as senior dealer – foreign exchange sales and trading.

Pictet Asset Management appointed Jade Beckmann as an equity trader. Beckmann joined Pictet Asset Management from Bloomberg, where she most recently served as a professional services sales account manager. Prior to that, she held the role of financial products equity specialist at the firm. Before joining Bloomberg, Beckmann spent eight months at PwC as a technology consulting analyst. Elsewhere in her career, Beckmann held internships at Fonterra, Bloomberg and PwC.

Perpetual Group merged its existing regional asset management businesses to form one global division led by a newly created role of chief executive of asset management. Rob Adams will take on the dual role of chief executive of Perpetual Group and chief executive, asset management. Graham Kitchen, who currently serves as chairman of Trillium and Perpetual corporate entities in the UK, will serve as global head of investment strategy while a search for a permanent candidate commences. Elsewhere, Clare Forster has been appointed as global head of business management and strategic delivery.

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Will Irwin has been appointed director of FX institutional sales at Lloyds Bank North America, following his departure from Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) where he had been serving in a similar role.

Prior roles include four years as director of G10 and Emerging Markets FX at Dankse Bank, and before that director and FX trader at Societe Generale.

In addition, New York-based Irwin previously spent almost six years at Nordic universal bank Nordea, most recently serving as senior dealer – foreign exchange sales and trading.

Speaking to The TRADE, Irwin said: “I’m excited at the opportunity to join with Lloyds Bank as they to continue to invest and expand their FX product offerings to institutional clients throughout the United States and Canada.”

Last month, Lloyds Bank Corporate & Institutional Banking was added to the bond dealer community of fixed income axe provision platform, Neptune Networks.

Following the move, the bank will distribute axes of GBP and EUR investment grade and high yield corporate credit – as well as UK gilt – through Neptune.

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Following the addition, Lloyds Bank will distribute axes of GBP and EUR investment grade and high yield corporate credit as well as UK gilt through Neptune.

Neptune Networks delivers axes from 32 dealers in global fixed income to more than 90 buy-side firms (managing $60 trillion in global assets under management).

“We are delighted to have Lloyds Bank join Neptune as the latest dealer to provide axes and inventory data to our buy-side community,” said Byron Cooper-Fogarty, chief operating officer at Neptune.

“This has been a client driven addition, as buy-side traders and portfolio managers continue to ask for high quality data from specialist liquidity providers such as Lloyds Bank.” 

The addition of Lloyds Bank follows that of Mizuho EMEA, which joined Neptune network as an axe dealer for bonds last month.  

“We are proud to play our role in making the market more efficient for all participants including our clients by sharing data and enhancing liquidity in UK markets,” said Boris Tadic, head of credit sales and trading at Lloyds Bank Corporate & Institutional Banking.  

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