The TRADE Derivatives - Issue 16 Autumn 2016

BGC Partners has poached Icap’s interest rate derivatives specialist Dean Berry to lead its electronic and hybrid execution team.

Berry will act as executive managing director in its global electronic and hybrid execution team. He will report to Shaun Lynn, president of BGC.

Cathryn Lyall, one of the most renowned figures in the listed derivatives world, has left CurveGlobal, the incoming interest rate derivatives platform from the London Stock Exchange.

Lyall, who joined
CurveGlobal last year as
chief operating officer, has
departed to pursue new
opportunities.

ICE has reshuffled management for its European franchise, appointing a new chief operating officer for its futures exchange.

Stuart Williams has been promoted to COO of ICE Futures Europe, effective immediately. He was previously director of corporate development.

Swaps-futures exchange Eris Futures has hired Barclays former head of agency derivatives Tim Stack as head of Europe, and will

POST-TRADE

ANCOA

Ancoa has appointed former Futures and Options Associaton managing director Hugo Jenkins to the board, as well as former broker John Barker.

Jenkins has a career spanning 30 years including brokerage roles in futures and options at Merrill Lynch and GNI and time working at derivatives exchange Liffe.

SOCIETE GENERALE Societe Generale has recruited Ramir Cimafranca as its new head of prime services for Japan.

Cimafranca will oversee the division which incorporates prime brokerage and clearing, global execution services and cross-asset secured financing.

DIGITAL ASSET Blockchain startup Digital Asset has made a series of high profile hiring’s from the post-trade and banking sector, including JP Morgan’s global head of collateral management.

Kelly Mathieson, a JP Morgan veteran of over 25 years, has joined the company as a product manager, reuniting with the Digital Asset’s founder Blythe Masters, JP Morgan’s former head of global commodities.

Cathryn Lyall Tim Stack

Exchange Square, Broadgate, London

TRADING VENUES

Hugo Jenkins

open a new London-based office.

Stack, who previously headed the British bank’s global futures and OTC clearing business, will be responsible for sales, marketing and partnerships in Europe.

Icap has promoted Seth Johnson to the role of chief executive of its electronic trading and post-trade unit EBS Broker Tec, following the resignation of Gil Mandelzis in July.