British brokerage added a new trader to its new Dubai office
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Smaïl Aït-Mahrez joined British liquidity provider TP ICAP in Dubai this week to head up its Euro government bonds, SSAs, and emerging markets desk. He joined the firm from trading firm Marex in the city, where he was an MD and head of the firm’s euro and emerging government bonds desk.
Aït-Mahrez spent three years at Marex, and was at OTCex for ten years across Paris, London and Dubai before that, covering a variety of government bonds, mostly European.
TP ICAP is going hard on its credit business. This time last year, it bought out financial data firm Neptune Networks with a consortium of banks. “Neptune delivers high-quality, real-time pre-trade bond market data from many sell-side banks to buy-side clients,” TP ICAP explained.
Hiring Aït-Mahrez appears to be the next part of that strategy. The Trade reported earlier today that TP ICAP planned to launch a new credit trading and data platform integrated with Neptune called RealQ. Its Dubai office was only launched in December 2024, too. Aït-Mahrez is joining a very new business.
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