Bank of America Merrilll Lynch has brought three trading professionals on board.
First, Joseph Falso and Laura Brady joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch to cover hedge fund clients. Falso, a 14 year veteran, was an executive director in Morgan Stanley’s institutional equities division. Prior to joining Morgan in 2005, he was at Goldman Sachs. Brady, a four year pro, comes from Knight Capital’s direct electronic execution services group. Both report to Anthony LaSalle, director in global execution services.
Also joining the buldge firm is Peter O’Malley. O’Malley returned to Bank of America Merrill Lynch as part of its global portfolio trading and Americas electronic sales group. He was previously at the firm from 2005 to 2008 in its program and electronic trading group. O’ Malley, an 11 year veteran, comes from Morgan Stanley where he was an executive director in its program trading sales group. Before that he spent two years as a program trader at Goldman Sachs.
ITG hired sales trader Jeff Haise as a director to trade energy and industrials. Haise, a 20-year veteran, is responsible for providing high-touch execution, with a particular focus on companies covered by the firm’s energy team. Prior to this, he served as a senior sector trader at Nomura Securities, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. He reports to Michael Marrale.
Knight Capital Group hired sales trader Todd Rowan as a vice president in its institutional equities sales group. There, Rowan is responsible for covering select institutional clients. Rowan, a 22 year professional, came from Deutsche Bank where he spent the last three years responsible for sales and trade consultation of the Autobahn electronic equity trading platform for the bulge firm’s Midwest clients. Prior to that, he spent five years at Liquidnet as a relationship manager for the Midwest region. He was also a trader at the CBOT specializing in treasury options and futures arbitrage from 1991 to 2005.
The Buckingham Research Group hired Brad Wilson as managing director and head of trading. Wilson, with over 20 years of the institutional cash equities trading experience, is charged with raising the firm’s visibility and revamping the trading and sales trading platform. Prior to Buckingham, he was the head of U.S. sales trading for Mizuho Securities USA, and prior to that, he was a senior sales trader for several years at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. He has held similar positions with ABN AMRO and CIBC World Markets.
BATS Chi-X Europe hired David Howson as chief operating officer; overseeing BATS Chi-X Europe’s trading software engineering, infrastructure and operational teams. With over 14 years’ experience in financial markets in Europe and North America, Howson joined from Equiduct Systsems, where he was chief technology officer. He reports to chief executive Mark Hemsley.
