Two decades ago, if you worked in rates trading in the City of London, there was one person to work for: Steve Ashley at RBS. When Ashley left for Nomura in 2005, there was another person at the top of the RBS rates business: Jezri Mohideen.
Mohideen followed Ashley to Nomura in 2018 and together the two men helped build Nomura's macro trading business. Now, the City's two biggest rates traders are doing something different again: it emerged today that Ashley is leaving Nomura to join Laser Digital Holdings AG, a Swiss-based Nomura subsidiary focused on digital assets trading and investing, where Mohideen is the CEO.
While Nomura is doubling down on crypto, headhunters say digital assets hiring at other banks has quietened down. Citi is advertising 29 jobs, including for a blockchain data scientist, but it already has nearly 74 people working across digital assets according to LinkedIn, suggesting the 100-person team run by Vasant Viswanathan and Shobhit Maini might be nearly full....
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