In other People Moves news, MarketAxess has an appointment for Europe and Asia, KBW has a new managing director and Deutsche Bank literally moves staff into a new building.
NEX Exchange Names TriOptima COO to Board
Mireille Dyrberg, non-executive director of the board, NEX Exchange
NEX Exchange, the U.K. stock exchange for small and medium companies formerly known as ISDX, reports that it has appointed Mireille Dyrberg to its board as a non-executive director. The exchange, which also had an incarnation as PLUS Markets, is part of the NEX Group, previously known as ICAP, an interdealer brokerage and technology solutions provider.
Dyrberg is the chief operating officer (COO) of TriOptima, a NEX Group business, and is “responsible for infrastructure functions as well as heading up TriOptima’s credit risk analytics service, triCalculate,” according to a statement from NEX Exchange officials.
Other NEX Exchange board members include Chairman Tom Binks, CEO Patrick Birley and non-executive directors David Ireland, Ian Chicken and Michael Berkeley.
MarketAxess Appoints Europe and Asia Head
New York-based MarketAxess Holdings Inc., which characterizes itself as the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities and a
Christophe Roupie, head of Europe and Asia, MarketAxess Europe Limited and Trax
provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed income markets, reports the appointment of Christophe Roupie as head of Europe and Asia for MarketAxess Europe Ltd., and Trax, a provider of regulatory reporting, post-trade matching and market data.
The appointment is subject to approval from the U.K. regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority.
Roupie will head the firm’s businesses in Europe and Asia, according to a statement, and will report to Rick McVey, MarketAxess CEO.
Roupie was previously at AXA Investment Managers, where he was global head of trading and securities financing for more than a decade, according to a statement.
Before joining AXA, Roupie was the global head of fixed income trading at Natixis Asset Management, officials say. “Throughout his career, Mr. Roupie has been an advocate for electronic trading as a critical component of best execution practices,” officials add.
MarketAxess specifies that it also has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, São Paulo, Hong Kong and Singapore.
KBW Names New MD for Financial Services Investment
New York City-based Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW), which describes itself as a full-service, boutique investment bank and broker-dealer specializing in the financial services sector, reports that Brian Wornow has joined as managing director in the financial services investment banking group. He is based in the firm’s New York office.
Wornow brings “more than 20 years of experience to KBW and is responsible for expanding the group’s work across the mortgage finance and real estate services sectors, advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, public and private equity and debt offerings,” KBW says in a statement. “In this role, he will work alongside more than 20 professionals in KBW’s Financial Services Group as well as more than 100 experts in the firm’s overall investment banking group.
Most recently, he was senior managing director at Clayton Holdings, per KBW. “Prior to that, he acted as Managing Director and Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s residential mortgage whole loan trading business,” officials add.
Wornow has also held “executive and managerial roles at UBS Securities, LLC, Mortgage IT, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank Securities), and PriceWaterhouseCoopers,” says KBW, which “operates in the U.S. and Europe through its broker dealer subsidiaries, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. and Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited (SNEL), also trading as Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Europe (KBW Europe).”
KBW’s parent company, Stifel Financial, is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.
Deutsche Bank Opens Offices in London’s Zig Zag Building
Deutsche Bank officials report that the London-based staff of the bank’s asset management and wealth management groups has begun relocating to offices in the Zig Zag building in Victoria, London SW1.
The move will provide employees with more modern facilities while facilitating closer ties between the business and their clients, “which enables more efficient working practices,” officials say.
“This building represents a significant investment in the future of our business and a vote of confidence by the leadership of the bank,” said Fabrizio Campelli, global head of deutsche bank wealth management, in a prepared statement.
Deutsche Bank signed a 15-year lease in November 2015 for the two businesses to occupy six floors of the Zig Zag building. Deutsche Asset Management and Wealth Management employees will gradually relocate from Pinner’s Hall to the new office in Victoria over the coming weeks, officials say.
The ZigZag building, which has 92,000 square feet in total, offers a tech lounge for employees to receive face-to-face support, meeting rooms with state-of-the-art audio visual technology and contemporary client-meeting spaces, officials say. The building also features artwork on all floors from the Deutsche Bank Collection.
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