BTIG hires Stewart, Di Felice for fixed income group

New York, March 15 – BTIG, LLC announced that it has hired Michael Stewart and Michael Di Felice for its fixed income credit group.

Stewart will be a managing director and will focus on trading convertibles and selling solutions for other fixed-income instruments.

BTIG said Stewart has 20 years of sales and trading experience. He was previously a managing director at Seaport Global Securities and before that in credit sales at Jefferies and Barclays.

Di Felice joins as a director and will work on distressed debt, high-yield and convertible bond sales.

He was previously a senior vice president of fixed income sales at GMP Securities. He earlier worked at Deutsche Bank.

Both new hires will be based in New York and will report to Darren Haines and Drew Doscher, co-heads of the fixed income credit group at BTIG.

“Michael Stewart and Michael Di Felice are welcome additions to our team as we continue to aggressively invest in our platform,” Doscher said in the press release.

“Given the rapidly changing market conditions, it is imperative that we are appropriately staffed to create solutions for decision-makers across our institutional investor client base.”

BTIG is a New York-based financial services firm.

© 2015 Prospect News.
All content on this website is protected by copyright law in the U.S. and elsewhere. For the use of the person downloading only.
Redistribution and copying are prohibited by law without written permission in advance from Prospect News.
Redistribution or copying includes e-mailing, printing multiple copies or any other form of reproduction.