FlexTrade, CIBC and Millenium Onboard Industry Veterans: Executives on the move

Whilst the deep economic shock caused by Covid-19 pushes other news around the world to the sidelines, senior executives have still been active changing their career paths this week. Here are the highlights:

IS Prime Hong Kong Poaches Invast Global’s Antony Tan

Tan becomes Vice President of Trading Solutions at the firm. He was Head of Dealing Services at Invast Global before joining the firm this month.

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Stephane Prunier Joins CIBC Europe in FX Sales

Prunier joins the bank as a Director FX Sales Europe in Luxembourg. He previously worked as Head of FX and EM FI Sales at Societe Generale.

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Millenium hires Greg Kaldor as Strategist

Kaldor moves to the company from Phillimore Investments, where he was a Macro Strategist. He also served in macro equity strategy at Bank of America Merril Lynch earlier in his career.

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OpenFin Hires Adrian Crockett as its Chief Product Officer

Based in New York, Crocket will work with the firm’s client base to build its app infrastructure. He held senior roles at Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse before.

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Cowen Appoints Co-Heads of FX Commodities and Futures

Alan Circle and Martin Ferraro join the firm’s outsourced trading division in their new roles. Both move to Cowen from BTIG, a global financial services firm specialising in Institutional Trading Institutional Trading Institutional trading can be characterized as individuals or entities with the ability to invest in securities that are not available to retail traders directly.This includes specific investments such as FX forwards or swaps, among others.There are many types of players in the institutional trading space. These include central banks, retail and commercial banks, internet banks, credit unions, savings, and loan associations, investment banks, investment companies, brokerage firms, insurance compa Institutional trading can be characterized as individuals or entities with the ability to invest in securities that are not available to retail traders directly.This includes specific investments such as FX forwards or swaps, among others.There are many types of players in the institutional trading space. These include central banks, retail and commercial banks, internet banks, credit unions, savings, and loan associations, investment banks, investment companies, brokerage firms, insurance compa Read this Term and investment banking .

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Former 360T Executive Jason Young Joins Amazon Currency Converter

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Paul Beatty Joins FlexTrade as Director in New York

Beatty moves to the firm Spotex, where he was a Sales Executive. He spent 17 years as a Global Managing Director Tradebook FX at Bloomberg.

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Jefferies Appoints Aneta Markowska as Chief Economist

Markowska takes up her new role as Ward McCarthy retires after over a decade. Markowska was a Deputy Chief Economist at Cornerstone Macro before. Her career began in interest rate derivatives at BNY Mellon.

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