Stifel hires former Pareto Securities fairness gross sales buying and selling head for director function

US funding financial institution Stifel has made a brand new rent to its execution products and services staff, appointing Darryl Willoughby as managing director, taking a look after pan-Eu buying and selling. 

London-based Willoughby is ready to assist the company increase its high-touch franchise throughout Europe, and give a boost to shopper trade thru the usage of company and chance buying and selling. 

He brings intensive revel in in buying and selling, concept era and shopper connectivity to his new function, and can report back to Seema Arora, managing director and head of execution products and services for EMEA.  

Learn extra – Stifel names former Instinet execution gross sales head Arora to EMEA lead function 

Willoughby joins the company from Pareto Securities, the place he was once head of fairness gross sales buying and selling, London. 

Previous to this, he labored throughout fairness predominant methods at Jefferies for greater than a 12 months. He has additionally labored throughout more than a few fairness buying and selling and portfolio control positions as corporations together with Cantor Fitzgerald, SEB, RBC Capital Markets, Deutsche Financial institution and BNP Paribas.  

Stifel showed the appointment when contacted through The TRADE.  

Willoughby’s new place follows additional hires for Stifel in fresh months. In June 2025, the company appointed Sarrah Chaker as a gross sales dealer masking US markets to Eu purchasers, as published through The TRADE on the time.  

Adjustments have additionally been observed throughout Stifel’s UK gross sales buying and selling staff this 12 months, with information in April {that a} collection of positions throughout money equities have been anticipated to be minimize as a part of a shift in center of attention in opposition to changing into an advisory-led trade in Europe.   

Resources with regards to the topic advised The TRADE that fairness gross sales investors Louise Brooks and Kevin James had left the trade, and 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 also are believed to have left the company.