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ON THE MOVE: Trezza Joins Sage; Mizuho Lands Tassan-Solet as Derivative Head

Traders Magazine Online News, May 23, 2017

John D'Antona Jr.

Mike Trezza has joined Sage Trader as Managing Director, Electronic Execution Services in New York. A veteran with 25 years in finance, Trezza comes from Bayes Capital where he spent almost the last three years as an institutional salesman. He also worked for neary years in business development at Global Liquidity Partners and at Knight before that. He got his start in the business at MSCI, a division of Morgan Stanley back in 1992.

Mike Trezza

Ipreo announced that it has hired Albert Lojko as Executive Vice President, Head of Global Corporate Solutions, based in New York. Lojko, a veteran with over 20 years of industry experience in FinTech, comes onboard from Thomson Reuters, where he held several executive leadership roles, most recently Global Head of Open Platform. Prior to Thomson Reuters, Lojko served as Managing Director of the Equities business at Tradeweb, following his first stint as an executive manager at Thomson Corporation, which included 5 years in Europe. He started his career at the Carson Group.

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Agency broker BTIG announced today that Gareth Thomas has joined the firm’s Foreign Exchange Trading Group. Based in New York, Thomas will drive the development of BTIG’s electronic foreign exchange platform, TradeSave FX, a low-touch technology for advanced direct market access. Prior to BTIG, he was a Sales Director at FastMatch, where he developed, maintained and strengthened client relationships within the electronic FX market. Previously, Mr. Thomas was Head of Foreign Exchange Trading at Mint, a division of BGC Capital.

NEX Group hired Colin Murphy as chief commercial officer of NEX Group’s Optimisation unit. Murphy is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs.

UBS' asset-management arm has hired Suni Harford as its head of investments. Harford will oversee about $600 billion and about 500 investment staffers from New York, according to a press release. Harford is replacing Dawn Fitzpatrick, who left the bank earlier this year to join George Soros' family office as chief investment officer. Harford joins UBS from Citigroup, where she previously worked for 24 years. She most recently was regional head of markets for North America.

Cinnober recently announced the acquisition of the business and assets of Ancoa Software, the UK-based market surveillance specialist company. This business forms a new subsidiary within the Cinnober group and Alastair Goodwin has now been appointed CEO for the entity, that will provide contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy & sell-side firms. Goodwins’s most recent position was Head of Business Development at Boat Services Ltd, a UK based Cinnober subsidiary that provides technology services to the banking and insurance sectors. Notably, he drove the partnership between Boat and the London Stock Exchange to bring together their reporting services and form TRADEcho. 

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