2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (201+ words) Alex Manakyan was at Mizuho, but not for long. After joining Mizuho's Singapore office as head of FX trading in October 2024, he left again in September 2025. He was presumed retired and happily managing his own money. After a year out…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (242+ words) Qube Research and Technologies (QRT) has been diversifying. When it spun out of Credit Suisse in 2018, it was focused on systematic equities. Since then, it's moved into fundamental equities under Stephen Irvine, commodities under Naveen Arora, and catastrophe bonds under…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (153+ words) As we wrote a few months ago, French equity derivatives traders have been popular in 2026. Now Millennium hired a fine example of this species from UBS. Gauthier Amiot has just joined Millennium's London office as deputy head of global volatility…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (147+ words) In March, we said that data strategists were hot. It's September and this is still so. Tudor Investment Corporation has just hired a new data strategist in London. He is Conor Taggart and he will seemingly be Tudor's data strategy…...

4+ day, 50+ min ago   (232+ words) eFinancialCareers It's not always the case that people want to leave London for Asia. Witness Greg Guyett, who didn't want to go at HSBC and who managed to hang on for a bit in London instead. If you have family…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (191+ words) Kuldeep Jagtap, where are you? Still, we understand, at Bank of America in Singapore. But not for long. Bank of America declined to comment and Jagtap didn't respond to a request to comment, but we understand that he's resigned and…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (455+ words) Giuseppe Paleologo, the head of quant research at Balyasny, is know for his puckish sense of humour and social media musings. He’s now posted a very interesting thread, detailing his experiences in using LLMs (specifically, OpenAI’s Sol and Astra) to…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (224+ words) Natural gas trading is hot. But not everyone can stand the heat. As we reported in August, US hedge fund Roscommon Analytics lost money and then closed its natural gas desk in January. One of its people just turned up…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (219+ words) If you work for Deutsche Bank, do you remember Martial Collet-Billon? You probably should. He spent nearly 14 years at Deutsche Bank and was head of rates options and exotics trading for Europe until April 2025, when he left for hedge fund…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (694+ words) Izzy Englander is an older, rich man. Aged 77, Bloomberg notes that he is worth $32bn. He has been through an expensive divorce after his wife of 40 years left for a female art dealer, but he is undaunted. Englander is still making…...