Optiver is building out its institutional sales team, with Oliver Chapman and Ian Schneider joining the cash equity sales team in London and Piette Antoine Jaunâtre taking on ETF sales in Amsterdam.
The trio report to Jean-Marie Tine, head of delta-one institutional sales.
In 2024, Optiver reported net trading income of €3.494 billion, up 26% year-on-year (YoY), and overall profits of €1.369 billion, up 18% YoY..
Tine commented, “These hires bring deep experience and strong relationships to a team already leading in its field. They represent the next stage of our growth — expanding liquidity provision in European equities to US counterparties, strengthening our UK presence, and building our direct ETF trading capabilities.”
Earlier this year, the former head of engineering for BlackRock’s Aladdin joined the trading company.
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Chapman and Schneider join the company from Barclays and Morgan Stanley respectively. Chapman’s more than 15 year career has been spent at the firm, initially at Barclays Capital before moving into electronic cash equities sales at the investment bank.
Schneider’s 14-year tenure at Morgan Stanley most recently saw him as an executive director of cash equity sales trading. At Optiver, he will be focussed on relationships with US counterparties.
Jaunâtre has been an institutional ETF trader at Flow Traders since 2014, before which he was on the equity derivatives sales team for Spain and France at Societe Generale CIB. In his new role, he is responsible for ETF sales across France and Iberia.
