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Market-making specialist hire swells KCG's ex-UBS ranks

European chief recruits former colleague as electronic trading firm continues to recruit bulge-bracket bank staff

Thursday 4 June 2015 at 16:14

Trading group KCG Holdings has added another ex-UBS executive to its ranks, recruiting a former senior market-making executive who had until now spent his entire career at the Swiss bank, where he worked with KCG's current European chief executive.

Chris Townsend will join KCG on August 3 as a senior quantitative trader in its European market-making business, according to an internal memo sent to staff on Thursday.