To cap a major hiring push in equity sales trading, Barclays Capital welcomed Jan Shun Yet on board last week as Asia-Pacific head of electronic sales trading.
He previously held a similar post at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoA Merrill), where he had been since 2005, before which he worked as a portfolio trader at Morgan Stanley in New York.
Meanwhile, Michael Garcia, Orion Leung and Jamie White all joined in August in Hong Kong as additions to the sales/equity trading team, and were also previously with BoA Merrill.
The hires are part of a strategy to have traditional sales traders more closely involved with the high-touch e-trading business, says Michael Kim, Asia-Pacific head of electronic equities product management at Barclays Capital.
He says there is increasing demand from the buy side for a combination of sophisticated e-trading services -- such as real-trade analytics and algorithm monitoring -- with advice on trading ideas and execution provided by sales traders.
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The new appointments follow related senior equities hires earlier this year in Hong Kong. They include: Lehman Brothers and Nomura veteran Sigurbjörn ‘Siggi’ Thorkelsson, head of equities for Asia-Pacific; Jeremy Norris, head of sales trading for non-Japan Asia; and Mark Sandeford, head of cash equities trading for non-Japan Asia, including Australia.
