Deutsche Bank Names New Algorithmic Trading Head

Deutsche Bank has hired a senior algorithmic trading head to lead its Americas electronic equities desk in its most recent effort to bolster the business. According to a story in The Trade, James Rubinstein has been appointed head of electronic equities for the Americas region at Deutsche Bank in New York. He joins the German investment bank after spending more than 12 years with UBS, most recently as a managing director and Americas head of algorithmic trading and analytics. Prior to his time with UBS, he spent two years working with order and execution management systems at FlexTrade, and more than four years leading the trading research group for Instinet before that.