Mizuho Americas Names Darlene Pasquill Head of Equity Division

There has been a shake-up at the top of Mizuho Americas’s US Equities Equities Equities can be characterized as stocks or shares in a company that investors can buy or sell. When you buy a stock, you are in essence buying an equity, becoming a partial owner of shares in a specific company or fund.However, equities do not pay a fixed interest rate, and as such are not considered guaranteed income. As such, equity markets are often associated with risk.When a company issues bonds, it’s taking loans from buyers. When a company offers shares, on the other hand, it’s selling pa Equities can be characterized as stocks or shares in a company that investors can buy or sell. When you buy a stock, you are in essence buying an equity, becoming a partial owner of shares in a specific company or fund.However, equities do not pay a fixed interest rate, and as such are not considered guaranteed income. As such, equity markets are often associated with risk.When a company issues bonds, it’s taking loans from buyers. When a company offers shares, on the other hand, it’s selling pa Read this Term business. The asset manager and provider of corporate and investment banking services has onboarded Darlene Pasquill, a Credit Suisse veteran, to lead its Equity Division. Pasquill has been involved in the securities industry since 1985.

Mizuho America’s latest hire represents one of the group’s most senior additions to date. Pasquill will be strengthening the company’s equities research, sales, and trading offering and will be tasked with managing the continued growth of the firm’s coverage universe. She will report to Jerry Rizzieri, president and CEO of Mizuho Securities USA.

Pasquill had been a long-serving executive at Credit Suisse for nearly two decades. She most recently served as head of its Americas equities business until she decided last year to leave the bank to pursue external opportunities. She had been in that role with the Swiss lender since 2015.

Prior to Credit Suisse, Pasquill was the vice president of institutional equity sales with the US investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Commenting on the appointment, Jerry Rizzieri, said: “Darlene is a leader with a proven track record of client focus and product enhancements. Her ability to identify and create synergies which Leverage Leverage In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders In financial trading, leverage is a loan supplied by a broker, which facilitates a trader in being able to control a relatively large amount of money with a significantly lesser initial investment. Leverage therefore allows traders to make a much greater return on investment compared to trading without any leverage. Traders seek to make a profit from movements in financial markets, such as stocks and currencies.Trading without any leverage would greatly diminish the potential rewards, so traders Read this Term firm resources will further enhance our growth.”

Mizuho Securities agreed in July to settle charges – without admitting or denying them – that its employees accessed and transferred “material nonpublic customer buyback information to other traders and Mizuho’s hedge fund clients.”

In 2016, Japanese parent firm, Mizuho Financial Group launched Mizuho Americas, which has since grown as a North American banking holding entity. The group comprises a host of legal entities, aggregating segments in the corporate and investment banking, financing, securities, treasury services, asset management, and research services spaces for clients in North America.