Morgan Stanley cross-asset futures execution co-head to affix Liquidnet

The co-head of cross asset execution futures at Morgan Stanley is ready to go away the financial institution for a brand new function at Liquidnet.

Alex Grinfeld has been appointed to co-head up Liquidnet’s futures enterprise within the Americas.

He joins Liquidnet after 11 years at Morgan Stanley. Previous to becoming a member of Morgan Stanley, Grinfeld was a vp at Goldman Sachs for futures and derivatives gross sales buying and selling.

Beforehand in his profession, he spent over 5 years within the CME S&P 500 futures buying and selling pit.

Grinfeld will head up the division alongside Brian Cashin who joined Liquidnet from Financial institution of America in March 2022.

“Alex joins us at an thrilling time in our journey, his intensive expertise will probably be integral as we launch new know-how and additional develop our execution providers,” stated Mike du Plessis, world head of listed derivatives.

Liquidnet has been bolstering its Americas and European listed derivatives companies lately with a string of senior new hires.

Among the many new hires have been Dan Noorian and Darren Smith – each of whom joined from UBS 18 months in the past to guide Liquidnet’s listed derivatives crew in London.

The appointments comply with the launch of a pre-trade analytics providing for listed derivatives in October 2023.

Learn extra – Liquidnet launches pre-trade analytics resolution for listed derivatives

The brand new resolution goals to supply extra actionable intelligence together with quantity, liquidity, exercise and projected quantity to raised inform the decision-making course of forward of execution.