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ON THE MOVE: Barclays Grabs Dainton; BTIG Snags Trio from Jefferies

Traders Magazine Online News, August 15, 2017

John D'Antona Jr.

Barclays has hired Stephen Dainton, a former Credit Suisse executive, to be global head of equities. In his new role at Barclays, he will be based in London and report directly to Tim Throsby, the head of Barclays' corporate and investment bank. Throsby, who joined Barclays in January, was previously global head of equities at JPMorgan. Dainton left Credit Suisse earlier this year, having previously run Credit Suisse's equities business in Europe and later co-headed the Swiss bank's markets business in the region.

Also joining Barclays is Nick Doddy. Doddy was previously Deutsche Bank’s European lead for innovation initiatives, such as thumbprint technology and facial recognition. Doddy will be a Managing Director at Barclays in its business architecture division.

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TMX announced changes to Executive Committee, including former President and CEO of Global Enterprise Services, Jean Desgagné as President and CEO, TMX Global Solutions, Insights and Analytics Strategies, and John McKenzie as CFO and responsibility for TMX Group's finance function.

Nick Doddy, Barclays

Sales trader Michael McDonald has joined Olivetree as an Executive Director and will be based in the firm’s new Boston Office. He will be responsible for sales trading coverage of both hedge funds and long-onlys in Boston and Connecticut. McDonald comes from Convergex where he lead their Boston team and prior to that held a similar senior role with Canaccord Genuity.

American Century Investments has hired Tsuyoshi ‘Yoshi’ Ozaki, PhD into a portfolio manager role, within its Disciplined Equity group. He reports to Vice President and Portfolio Manager Yulin Long and is co-managing three fund strategies.

Execution broker BTIG has hired Romeo Reyes and Piyush Phadke. Both will focus on originating, structuring and executing bond financings for corporate and financial sponsor clients as part of the firm’s Debt Capital Markets business, and Daniel Nolan will continue the expansion of BTIG Fixed Income Credit and lead the Distressed-Debt Trading desk. All come from Jefferies.

Reyes, a 25-year veteran, joins as a Managing Director. Prior to BTIG, Reyes was Americas Head of Communications, Cable and Satellites Investment Banking at Jefferies, where he was previously Director of Global Leveraged Finance Research. Earlier in his career, he was an Executive Director and Senior High-Yield Analyst at UBS. Reyes held similar roles at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.

Phadke joins as a Director. Prior to BTIG, he was a Senior Vice President within the Financial Sponsors division at Jefferies. Earlier in his career, Phadke held a similar role at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he executed transactions for private equity backed companies.

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