People moves monday: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Tradeweb. The past week saw various senior appointments across the sell-side, spanning a futures and options sales role to an emerging markets rates trading hire in London, as well as a repo leadership position. Bank of America Darren Smith has left his role as head of execution and quantitative services for Liquidnet's European listed derivatives business to join Bank of America. London-based Smith joins the firm in a role covering futures and options sales, and brings almost two decades of industry experience to the position. He spent more than four years at Liquidnet, where he focused on agency execution services asset management in his leadership role. Prior to this, Smith held a 15-year tenure at UBS, where he initially joined in a delta one trading role, before later moving up the ranks to work across fixed income futures and options strategy, and ETD fixed income sales. Goldman Sachs Liam Webster has joined Goldman Sachs as an emerging markets rates trader after nearly three years at Barclays. Webster is based in London and brings more than a decade of industry experience to his new role. He served in the same position at Barclays, where his position included trading Polish interest rate products and Polish government bonds. Prior to this, he worked at Soloda Investment Advisors for a year-long stint, where he served as a junior portfolio manager for the CEEMEA region, across G10 rates and FX. Webster began his industry career as a securities lending and repo analyst at Morgan Stanley in 2014, before later stepping up as an emerging markets rates trader at the firm - a role he held for almost seven years. Tradeweb has appointed Andy Goss as head of international institutional repo. In the newly announced role, Goss will lead the continued growth of Tradeweb's international institutional repo business. His remit covers product direction, deepening strategic relationships and expanding the platform's electronic trading solutions across developed and emerging markets. Goss joins from Capula Investment Management, where he ran the firm's global financing function. Earlier in his career he has also held senior roles at UBS and Barclays. The TRADE > News > Asset Classes > Derivatives > Cboe Clear US secures SEC approval to expand to securities Cboe Clear US secures SEC approval to expand to securities. The registration will initially be used to clear Cboe's binary securities options tied to corporate KPIs, set to be available on Robinhood in Q4. Cboe Clear US (CCUS) has received temporary registration from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate as a covered clearing agency. Specifically, the registration expands CCUS's clearing capabilities beyond its existing authorities as a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-registered Derivatives Clearing Organisation (DCO) to clear securities products in addition to futures and swaps products. CCUS will initially use its SEC registration to clear Cboe's binary securities options tied to specified corporate key performance indicators (KPIs), which will be listedon Cboe Options Exchange andavailable on Robinhood in Q4 2026. Dale Michaels, head of Cboe Clear US, said: "Clearing plays a critical role in bringing innovation to market. "These expanded capabilities position Cboe Clear US to become an innovation lane to support new products and meet evolving customer needs, while maintaining the rigorous risk management standards that are fundamental to our business." The expansion is designed to complement Cboes' longstanding partnership with theOptions Clearing Corporation (OCC), which clears its traditional equity options. Its first products were binary options on the mini-S&P 500 Index (XSP), which pay out on a yes-or-no basis and are cleared through the Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) and launched on Interactive Brokers.

Capula Investment Management is exploring an office in Athens, the latest hedge fund to seek a presence in the Greek capital. The firm is looking to hire an executive to oversee the launch of operations there, according to a job listing. A person familiar with the matter said the plans are at an early stage and no decision has been made. The move follows similar steps by Rokos and Millennium.