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ON THE MOVE: Citi, BTIG & DB All Hire Talent

Traders Magazine Online News, March 21, 2017

John D'Antona Jr.

Citi has hired Thomas Regazzi as its new head of prime finance for North America, according to an internal memo, as it continues to build out its equities team. Regazzi came from UBS where he was previously head of synthetic equity trading for the Americas, serving almost seven years at the Swiss bank. According to the memo, Regazzi will “lead prime services, equity finance, agency securities lending, and delta one across the region. Tom will work in close cooperation with the regional leads across sales, operations and technology to execute our growth strategy for prime finance in North America.”

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Agency broker BTIG continues its massive hiring spree by adding several new traders and executives. First, it hired Michael Stewart and Michael Di Felice in its growing fixed-income group in New York. Stewart joins as a Managing Director within the Fixed Income Credit Group, focused on trading convertibles, and selling solutions for other fixed income instruments. A veteran with over 20 years of institutional fixed income sales and trading experience, he comes from Seaport Global Securities. Earlier,  Stewart was a Managing Director of Fixed Income Credit Sales at Jefferies and Barclays.

Di Felice onboards as a Director within the Fixed Income Credit Group, focusing on distressed debt, high yield and convertible bond sales. Prior to BTIG, he was a Senior Vice President of Fixed Income Sales at GMP Securities. Earlier in his career, Di Felice was an Investment Banking Associate at Deutsche Bank.

Both report to Darren Haines and Drew Doscher, Co-Heads of the Fixed Income Credit Group at BTIG.

Also at the broker, BTIG hired Filip Skala and John Curley for its Transition Management and Global Portfolio and ETF Trading Group. Based in New York, Skala will lead the firm’s Transition Management team as Managing Director and Head of Transition Management, while Curley will focus on strengthening and expanding Global Portfolio and ETF Trading client relationships as Director of Global Portfolio and ETF Trading Sales.

Sean Hamilton George

 

Prior to BTIG, Skala was a Managing Director and Head of U.S. Portfolio Solutions at Cantor Fitzgerald. Previously, he was Executive Director and Head of U.S. Transition Management Implementation at J.P. Morgan, a role he also held at Bear Stearns. Earlier in his career, Mr. Skala held a variety of transition management, plans sponsor sales and defined contribution roles at BNY Brokerage, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.

Curley comes from Deutsche Bank, where he was a Director of Global Program Trading. Previously, he was an Executive Director of Global Portfolio Trading at J.P. Morgan. Earlier in his career, Curley was a Managing Director and Principal of Global Portfolio Trading at Bear Stearns. He began his career within Portfolio Trading at Instinet.

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