Jefferies US fairness gross sales dealer joins Stifel

US funding financial institution Stifel has appointed Sarrah Chaker as a gross sales dealer protecting US markets to Eu purchasers, The TRADE can expose.  

In her new place, Chaker can be primarily based out of Paris, the place she’s going to report back to Seema Arora, Stifel’s managing director and head of execution products and services for EMEA. 

Arora joined the company in October 2024, as printed by way of The TRADE on the time. 

Chakar brings 9 years of trade revel in to her new place, protecting each buying and selling and gross sales buying and selling throughout world markets.  

At Jefferies, she served as a US fairness gross sales dealer from April 2020 to March 2024, executing and managing US fairness trades for institutional purchasers.  

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Previous to this, she additionally labored as a Eu fairness dealer at Barclays Funding Financial institution in London for 4 years.  

Each Stifel and Jefferies didn’t remark at the transfer. 

The appointment follows information in April 2025 that Stifel was once re-evaluating its UK gross sales buying and selling unit, with a lot of positions throughout money equities anticipated to be minimize as a part of a shift in center of attention in opposition to turn into an advisory-led industry in Europe.  

The company’s plans have additionally noticed fairness gross sales buyers Louise Brooks and Kevin James depart the industry, assets with reference to the topic informed The TRADE.  

As well as, Mark Barnes, director of digital gross sales buying and selling, managing director of digital buying and selling, Tony Nash and managing director for digital hybrid gross sales buying and selling, Colin Robb are all believed to have left the company.