People Moves: Acadian Asset Management, TraditionDATA, West Highland, FMSB, and more

Acadian hires Andy Moniz as director of responsible investing    

Acadian Asset Management has appointed Andy Moniz at its London affiliate as director of responsible investing. In this role, Moniz will be responsible for leading Acadian’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts and will oversee the firm’s ESG strategies, related research initiatives, and active ownership tactics, in addition to serving as the chair for Acadian’s Responsible Investing Committee.

Moniz joins Acadian from Putnam Investments, where he served as director of applied data science investments with responsibility for creating systematic ESG stock selection strategies. Prior to Putnam, Moniz served as managing director, chief data scientist and head of quant equity research at Deutsche Bank.  

Moniz holds a PhD in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval from Erasmus University in the Netherlands, an MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of London, and a BA and MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Moniz will report to Acadian’s director of equity strategies, Ryan Taliaferro. 

Michael Kirby joins TraditionDATA

TraditionDATA, the data arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition, has hired Michael Kirby as a senior member of the data sales team in the Americas. 

In the new role, Kirby will be responsible for helping to drive revenue growth across the Americas as a member of TraditionDATA’s successful global sales team. He has joined TraditionDATA following over 25 years at Tullett Prebon, Icap, and most recently at CME Nex, where he managed its data services business. 

Kirby will report to Chris McGuigan, head of sales for the Americas at TraditionDATA.  

Data tech vet Wallos hikes to West Highland

New York-based systems support and software provider West Highland Support Services has appointed Rob Wallos as chief innovation officer. The newly-created position is responsible for focusing the company’s efforts around new technology-related initiatives being explored by financial firms, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, natural language processing and robotic process automation.

Wallos was most recently technology strategist for financial services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, prior to which he spent five years as global technology director at Thomson Reuters. Before that, Wallos was global head of market data architecture at Citigroup, prior to which he was a managing director at Bear Stearns, responsible for market data systems, and a market data engineer at Fuji Bank.

He also currently serves as co-chair of industry association the Financial Information Forum’s data and technology committee.

In his new role, Wallos reports to West Highland founder and CEO Steven Roe.

FMSB appoints Edward Davey as chief operating officer

The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB), a standard-setting body for the wholesale fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) markets, has announced the appointment of Edward Davey as its first chief operating officer.

Reporting to FMSB’s CEO, Davey will focus on managing FMSB’s working groups and sub-committees as they develop and produce standards, good practice statements and thought leadership publications across a wide range of wholesale FICC markets topics. The role will also focus on expanding FMSB’s membership base and its international reach.

Most recently, Davey ran his own consultancy firm and recently supported a large Australian bank to establish a new EU Banking entity in mainland Europe as part of their Brexit programme and also worked with several fintech companies.

Prior to that he was global FX chief operating officer at JP Morgan and then held the roles of head of strategic initiative group and strategic planning as well as head of product strategy at CLS Group Ltd, the provider of FX settlement solutions.

Quorsus Appoints Andrew Pinnington as regulatory reporting expert

Quorsus has appointed Andrew Pinnington as director and regulatory reporting subject matter expert. He joins the consultancy from his previous role as executive director, derivatives regulatory operations at Goldman Sachs International, and will be helping to lead Quorsus’ regulatory reporting practice.

His core responsibilities will be around leading the development of the regulatory reporting practice and serving as a trusted advisor in Quorsus’ ongoing and future client initiatives.  

During his time at Goldman Sachs, Pinnington managed the 30-strong European derivatives reporting team and instigated a front to back review of the firm’s reporting obligations. Prior to his time at Goldman Sachs, he was a consultant at challenger consultancy ElixIRR, in the capital markets practice.

Capitolis hires industry veteran James Kibbe as head of structured funding origination

Capitolis has appointed James Kibbe as head of structured funding origination.

Before joining Capitolis, Kibbe was a managing director at HSBC where he served in a variety of roles including head of rates, repo/derivative financing; co-head of institutional sales for the Americas; and head of macro sales. Prior to his tenure at HSBC, he served as managing director, head of US rates sales, for UBS AG.

Talos taps Alfonse Mandese as head of sales and business development  

Talos, an end-to-end technology infrastructure provider that supports the institutional trading of digital assets, has hired Alfonse Mandese as head of sales and business development.  

Mandese will be responsible for executing Talos’ go-to-market strategy, building partnerships and driving future revenue growth.

Prior to joining Talos, he led sales and business development in the Americas for Ledger Enterprise Solutions. There, he focused on the rollout of the company’s enterprise custody technology product, Ledger Vault. He formerly held positions at Citigroup and BCA Research.