Knight Libertas UK Appoints Ron Thompson as Managing Director, Global Head of ABS Strategy
05 January 2010 - 7:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. and LONDON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NITE) today announced that
Knight Libertas UK appointed Ronald E. Thompson, Jr. as Managing
Director, Global Head of ABS Strategy, effective as of November 30,
2009. "Ron brings considerable experience to our securitized
products effort in the U.S. and Europe and broadens the services we
provide to our institutional structured securities clients," said
Ronak Khichadia, Managing Director, Global Head of ABS/MBS sales
and trading. "We intend to further leverage our intellectual
capital to enhance the products and services we deliver to clients
as Ron helps us build out our ABS/MBS strategy and analytics
platform to support sales and trading. We are growing our platform
globally to meet the opportunities, and strategy will play a key
role in helping us expand our franchise across the structured
markets." Knight Libertas is an institutional fixed income
broker-dealer providing trade execution, fundamental investment
research across a broad range of fixed income securities including
ABS/MBS. Knight Libertas also provides secondary market liquidity
and credit-based analysis for High Grade and High Yield Bonds, Bank
Loans, Emerging Market Credit and Sovereigns as well as and capital
markets services for corporate issuers. "I am pleased to join
Knight Libertas and look forward to working with the team to build
a strong ABS/MBS platform. Knight Libertas already boasts extensive
research and strategy capabilities in other fixed income arenas,
namely High Yield and Emerging Markets. The ABS/MBS sales and
trading groups in the U.S. and Europe have quickly established
themselves as core trading counterparties, and they intend to add
to that strength with a build out in analytics and strategy," said
Thompson. Mr. Thompson is based in the London office, phone +44
(0)20 7997 2163 or email . Knight Libertas UK is a division of
Knight Capital Europe Limited, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Knight Capital Group, Inc. Biography Ronald E. Thompson, Jr.
Managing Director, Global Head of ABS Strategy Knight Libertas UK
Ronald. E. Thompson is Managing Director, Global Head of ABS
Strategy. Mr. Thompson joined Knight Libertas from the Royal Bank
of Scotland where he spent eight years, most recently as global
head of ABS strategy in Stamford and London. Before RBS, Thompson
held research and strategy roles with Citigroup and Salomon
Brothers as well as banking and research roles in several other
institutions. Highly ranked in Euromoney and Institutional Investor
polls, Ron's research on ABS and CDOs has also appeared in several
books, including the "Handbook of Bank Loans", "Handbook of
Structured Financial Products", "Guide to Mortgage and Asset Backed
Securities", and "Reserve Management Trends". Ron has a bachelor of
science in engineering with distinction from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. About Knight Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NITE) is
a global capital markets firm that provides market access and trade
execution services across multiple asset classes to buy- and
sell-side firms. Knight's hybrid market model features
complementary electronic and voice trade execution services in
global equities and fixed income as well as foreign exchange,
futures and options. The firm is consistently ranked as the leading
source of off-exchange liquidity in U.S. equities. Knight also
provides capital markets services to corporate issuers. Knight is
headquartered in Jersey City, NJ with a growing global presence
across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. For more
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DATASOURCE: Knight Capital Group, Inc. CONTACT: Margaret Wyrwas,
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