Point Capital Partners Announces New Head of Fixed Income

Published September 29, 2011 3:10 PM EDT 1 Min Read

Kevin C. O’Connor has joined Point Capital Partners, LLC (PCP) as a Partner.

O’Connor will also serve as a managing director and head of fixed income of Point Capital Markets (PCM), the wholly-owned broker-dealer subsidiary of PCP. He will be responsible for developing new lines of business for the broker-dealer, including municipal securities sales, trading and underwriting.

Prior to joining PCP, O’Connor was a managing director and co-head of fixed iIncome at SecondMarket, a SEC-regulated alternative trading system, registered broker dealer.

O’Connor joined SecondMarket in 2008 from JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he started its Auction-Rate Securities (ARS) trading desk in 2000. Previously, he held positions at Citigroup and Deutsche Bank.

For reprint and licensing requests for this article, click here.

Uncategorized

More From Asset Securitization Report

Fixed income

Citadel Securities boosts fixed-income presence with new bond trade

The latest offering will get Citadel Securities closer to its long-held ambition to become a primary dealer — a designation the Federal Reserve typically bestows only to firms active across all types of Treasury securities.

August 10

RMBS

Proposed Alternative to Libor Faces Tough Road Ahead

A committee convened by the Federal Reserve to examine potential replacements for widely used interbank offered rate benchmarks has published its interim conclusions, identifying two potential alternatives.

May 22

Career moves

Mayer Brown Hires Securitization Partners

Mayer Brown announced this week that Richard Todd and David O'Connor joined its banking & finance group in London as partners.

October 8

RMBS

Auriga Boosts U.S. Fixed-Income Operations

Auriga USA has boosted its fixed-income U.S. sales and trading operations with various new product lines. In the past year, the U.S. subsidiary has opened four locations and hired nine traders and salespeople Most recently, Brad Harris, previously from UBS and with 15 years experience as an agency trader, and Jon Devirian, formerly from Cohen Brothers with a decade as […]

May 15

Career moves

Gleacher Adds Fixed Income MD

Gleacher & Co. added a new managing director to Gleacher & Company Securities, its broker dealer subsidiary. Brian Waltman joined the firm’s New York City headquarters, where he will work within firm’s fixed income business, the investment bank said.Waltman was most recently with MF Global, which he joined this past April after serving as director of […]

December 12