Nomura names new international head of digital FX

Mark McMillan has joined Nomura as international head of digital foreign currency echange.

In his new position, London-based McMillan will oversee all buying and selling, gross sales, quant and strats inside of Nomura’s digital trade.  

In an inner memo noticed by way of The TRADE, David Leigh, head of worldwide FX and rising markets and Matthew Hampson, co-head of worldwide markets virtual workplace at Nomura, mentioned highlighted that the rent marks an “thrilling time” for the company’s FX and rising markets franchise. 

“We’re seeing robust franchise enlargement […] with our robust present workforce and persevered center of attention at the construct out of Nomura’s digital FX platform, we’re assured within the persevered enlargement and luck of our trade,” mentioned Leigh and Hampson. 

Learn extra: Nomura completes Macquarie acquisition in $1.8 billion deal 

McMillan joins the company following an 11-year tenure at Same old Chartered, the place he maximum just lately served as a managing director, international head, markets product control and information analytics.  

He to start with joined the company as an government director in eFX buying and selling in 2014, and throughout his time on the company, served in quite a lot of roles spanning eFX, algorithmic buying and selling quants, product control and information.  

Previous to this, he labored at HSBC for greater than 4 years as an eFX quantitative analyst and dealer, the place he helped to discovered the company’s eFX quant workforce.  

Up to now in his occupation, he has additionally labored at Dresdner Kleinwort.  

McMillan’s new position follows vital tendencies for Nomura in contemporary months. In December 2025, the company finished its acquisition of Macquarie’s US and Eu public asset control trade for $1.8 billion.  

As a part of the transfer, quite a lot of workers of Macquarie joined Nomura, together with Dylan Kluth, who was once named head of equities buying and selling for Asia Pacific at Nomura Asset Control.