Barclays keeps hiring the hottest female macro traders in London
Barclays wants to improve its London macro trading team. It's doing so by accumulating some of the most impressive female traders in London.
They include Lucile Flight (previously Lucile Medori) a former Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan euro swaps trader who went to hedge fund Millennium. Lucile is understood to be joining Barclays to trade euro swaps and other products.
They also include Laura Brown, a JPMorgan vice president (VP), who graduated from Cambridge in 2018 and is understood to be one of the City's up-and-coming rates euro rates traders and a "superstar" according to some previous colleagues.
Laura and Lucile follow the arrival of Tanya Kohli, Barclays' head of UK pensions and insurance rates sales, who returned from JPMorgan in September 2024 and who has allegedly had a transformative effect on Barclays' business.
Barclays declined to comment.
The congregation of impressive female rates traders and salespeople at Barclays follows an exodus of many men. At least seven senior people have left Barclays' business, including: Filippo Zorzoli, who's gone to Nomura; Noel Cochrane, who's gone to Deutsche Bank; James Armstrong, who's gone to Balyasny; Nico Huss, who's gone to Citi; Ankur Aneja, whose destination remains a mystery; Justin Firmino, who's also AWOL; and Nishant Singh who's gone to BlueCrest.
The exodus from Barclays has spurred speculation that Rajiv Shah, who resigned last week as head of GBP swaps trading at BNP Paribas, will join. However, Shah is thought to be going elsewhere.
Either way, Barclays has gaps to fill, and they may well worsen as Zorzoli and Nat Tyce - another Barclays alum - begin hiring at Nomura and target their former colleagues. This year's exodus from Barclays' macro team is thought to have been the result of a poor bonus round last year. Barclays has good reason to pay better for 2025 - or it may find itself bidding people back as Zorzoli and Tyce attempt to hire them.
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