Citi has made a number of appointments to its rates trading team, with Courtenay Watson joining the company as a managing director in London.
Watson will cover the European government bond (EGB) trading business. She joins from BNP Paribas, where she has been head of peripheral EGB trading for the past eight years. Prior to this, she was vice president for peripheral EGB trading at Nomura.
Michele Beretta has moved to a London-based vice presidential role at Citi, following EGB trader positions at both NatWest Markets and Deutsche Bank.
Yun Zhou has joined the New York team as a managing director in interest rate options trading. Zhou joins after almost two years as a portfolio manager at Brevan Howard, following a 14 year tenure at Morgan Stanley.
Also moving to Citi is Moussa Haidara, who will join the team in Paris as a director. Haidara has more than a decade of industry experience, most recently serving as an EGB trader at JP Morgan. He held the same role at Crédit Agricole, before which he was a vice president and EGB trader at Deutsche Bank.
Fiachra Harnett has also joined the company as a director, based in London. He has spent the past 14 years with Morgan Stanley, most recently serving as head of sovereigns, supranationals and agencies trading.
Citi was ranked second in Agence France Trésor’s 2023 secondary markets ranking, published in February. Behind BNP Paribas and ahead of Deutsche Bank, this made the firm the top-ranked US bank over the year.
On the appointments, Geoff Weber, head of G10 flow rates trading at Citi, commented: “We are committed to attracting exceptional talent to maintain our leading position across products and regions in rates trading.”
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