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ON THE MOVE: Mizuho Gets New FI Head, Macquarie Snags Credit Suisse Trio
Traders Magazine Online News, November 28, 2017
Mizuho International has named a new head of fixed income who joins the bank after 24 years with Credit Suisse. Zahra Peerbhoy onboarded the Asian bank and will be responsible for Mizuho’s international fixed income sales and trading, structured solutions and derivatives. Peerbhoy worked most recently as a managing director within the Credit Suisse's global markets business.
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Integral, a financial technology partner to foreign exchange participants, said it appointed Vikas Srivastava as Chief Revenue Officer with responsibility for growing company revenues across all client segments including banks, brokers, and asset managers. In this newly created role, Srivastava, who has over 30 years of experience in trading and sales, will manage sales, business development and solutions to ensure that Integral continues its singular focus of helping its customers outperform their competition in foreign exchange markets. Prior to joining Integral, Srivastava was founder and CEO of Cogence Capital, a quantitative trading company. For more than a decade before that he held numerous senior management positions at Citigroup in New York, leaving as its global head of e-commerce for the fixed income division. Vikas began his career at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco where he became the Head of Currency Trading and Risk Management.
David Hobert
Agency brokerage BTIG continued its recent hiring spree and landed David Hobert for the firm’s Foreign Exchange (FX) team. Based in New York, Hobert will help to expand BTIG’s global FX sales presence, and will focus on developing new business.. Joining as a Managing Director, he spent several years in a senior Business Development role at Autonomy Capital. Previously, he held management and sales roles in New York and London including Head of Emerging Market Sales at UBS and RBC, and Head of Local Market Sales at Lehman Brothers. He will report to Alan Circle and Martin Ferraro, Managing Directors and Co-Heads of Foreign Exchange Trading at BTIG
RBC Capital Markets has just hired Morgan Stanley’s head of fixed income modelling, Vasily Strela, as global head of FICC quantitative strategies. Strela joined Morgan Stanley in 2009 from J.P. Morgan, where he was an executive director in quantitative research. Before this, he was head of emerging market quants in at Bear Stearns, having had the misfortune to join in June 2007, less than a year before its collapse in March 2008. Before this, he was head of emerging markets quants at Morgan Stanley.
Michael Bailleux left TradingScreen after ten years in total to move to Trafix in its institutional Sales department.
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