Cboe Australia Taps James Giarratano as Senior Director, Head of Institutional Sales

​(Source: LinkedIn)

Cboe Australia, a regulated stock exchange, announced today the appointment of James Giarratano as its new Senior Director, Head of Institutional Sales, replacing Murrough O'Brien, who has been promoted to APAC Head of Sales, BIDS Trading.

James joined Cboe Australia with around twenty years of algorithmic and electronic trading experience. Most recently, he was Executive Director, Head of Electronic Equities Client Coverage APAC at BNP Paribas. Prior to that, he has been with Deutsche Bank for almost four years, having served as VP Electronic Trading and Director Electronic Trading, etc.

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 "We're excited to bring James on board. He brings a wealth of global electronic trading experience to Cboe Australia and will play a crucial role in ensuring our institutional clients can realise the benefits of our tech migration, which will bring new capabilities to the Australian market for the first time," Vic Jokovic, Chief Executive Officer of Cboe Australia, stated.

"Concurrently, we're pleased to announce that Murrough O'Brien has taken on a new role as APAC Head of Sales, BIDS Trading. Murrough will assume responsibility for the launch of Cboe BIDS Australia, which will introduce Australian market participants to a new generation of block trading."

James Giarratano said: "I have always been passionate about working with people, technology and markets. Joining the Cboe Australia team and the broader Cboe​ group, given their new global and multi-asset footprint, is an exceptional opportunity to bring innovation to the Australian trading community. It's an exciting time for the market and I look forward to helping our institutional clients benefit from Cboe's investment in technology and innovation."