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Bryan Blake has joined CIBC Capital Markets as managing director and head of global low touch execution after more than five years at\u202fCboe\u202fGlobal Markets.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\nCIBC Capital Markets\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bryan Blake has joined CIBC Capital Markets as managing director and head of global low touch execution after more than five years at\u202fCboe\u202fGlobal Markets.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Toronto-based Blake brings more than two decades of electronic trading,\u202fexchanges\u202fand market structure experience to his new role at the Canadian bank.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blake most recently served as vice president and head of Canadian equities at\u202fCboe, where he supported the launch of\u202fCboe\u202fBIDS Canada, to expand the firm\u2019s institutional block trading offering.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to this, Blake spent\u202fnearly five\u202fyears at Canada\u2019s largest equity alternative trading system (ATS),\u202fTriAct\u202fCanada Marketplace as chief executive officer, until the firm was\u202facquired\u202fby\u202fCboe\u202fin 2020.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has also served as a vice president at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he spent almost six years managing institutional and hedge fund relationships across Canadian equities and helped to launch Canada\u2019s quantitative trading platform.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Previously in his career, he has also held positions at TMX Group, Citi,\u202fScotiabank\u202fand Manulife.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eurex\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sarrah Chaker has joined Eurex\u2019s London-based desk\u00a0from Stifel. Her\u00a0new role covers\u00a0multi-asset sales.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chaker is set to focus on fixed income and currencies (FIC) and OTC interest rate swaps products in her position, spanning the firm\u2019s EMEA buy-side client base and helping to build out Eurex\u2019s Middle East footprint.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
She\u00a0joins the European derivatives exchange from Stifel, where she spent less than a year as an equity sales trader.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Previously in her career, Chaker spent four years at Jefferies as a US equity sales trader, and prior to this, also served at Barclays Investment Bank as a European equity trader from 2016 to 2020.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
While at Barclays, she traded European financials and UK mid-cap\u202fstocks, and\u202fworked across high touch orders and with the program trading and central risk desks.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
She also gained early career experience at Natixis and BNP Paribas, both based out of Paris.\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
BBVA\u00a0<\/p>\n
BBVA has named Marwan\u00a0Khouadja\u00a0as a managing director, EUR swap trader, based out of Madrid.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Khouadja\u00a0brings extensive EUR swap trading experience to his new role, having worked in positions at sell-side firms for more than 20 years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He joins the Spanish bank from Santander where he spent almost 3 years in a similar position.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to this,\u00a0Khouadja\u00a0held a 12-year tenure at HSBC in Paris, initially joining as a EUR swap trader in 2011, before stepping up as co-head of IRD trading for continental Europe almost 10 years later.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Previously in his career, he has also worked at firms including Standard Chartered, Banco Santander and ODDO BHF.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CIBC Capital Markets\u00a0 Bryan Blake has joined CIBC Capital Markets as managing director and head of global low…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[148,9685,9686],"class_list":{"0":"post-17333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bbva","8":"tag-bbva","9":"tag-cibc-capital-markets","10":"tag-eurex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}