Bellwether: n. From the practice of placing a bell around the
neck of a castrated ram so that it might lead its flock
Bellwether
Who’s moving where...
Ed Wehle has joined
BARCLAYS from
Deutsche Bank to
focus on technology
services deals based in
New York. Wehle, a
managing director, will
become head of global
technology services
banking and report to
co-heads of
technology banking in
the Americas, Greg
Dalvito and Laurence
Braham. Wehle joined
Deutsche Bank in 2017
after spending most of
his 25-year career at
Citigroup. UNICREDIT has hired
Guido Filippa as head of
markets for Italy in its
corporate and
investment banking
division. Filippa joined
from Italian alternative
investment firm Tages
Group and previously
held sales roles at
Goldman Sachs, Credit
Suisse and Barclays,
primarily covering banksand insurers. He is
based in Milan and
reports to Guy Laffineur,
head of global markets,
and locally to Alfredo
Maria De Falco, head of
CIB Italy. Filippa
replaces Francesco
Salvatori, who UniCredit
promoted to head CIB
for the Americas earlier
this year. RBC CAPITAL
MARKETS has hired
former Morgan Stanley
banker Jas Sandhu for
the architecture and
oversight of algorithms
in its equities business.
Sandhu has been
appointed head of
global equities
execution algorithms,
based in London. He
joined after 16 years atMorgan Stanley,
including a number of
roles within the
equities electronic
trading business and a
particular focus on
algorithmic trading
from 2008. Sandhu
will be responsible for
algos in RBC’s cash,
electronic, programme
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