Barclays Capital yesterday announced that Adrian Valenzuela has started work at the bank as head of equities liquid markets distribution for Asia-Pacific.
Valenzuela joins BarCap at the level of managing director and will be based in Hong Kong. He will report to Richard Cunningham, head of equities distribution Philippe El-Asmar, head of distribution for Asia-Pacific and Siggi Thorkelsson, head of equities for EMEA Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Valenzuela is responsible for the distribution teams covering all modes of equity execution in the region, across cash, programmes, and electronic, as well as convertibles and equity-flow derivatives.
Until last year he worked with J.P. Morgan in London, where he...