People moves: Leonteq snaps up Ricci to head Europe sales

Alessandro Ricci (pictured) has joined Leonteq in London as head of sales for Europe. Ricci reports to David Schmid, global head of sales and a member of the executive committee and joins from Nomura, where he was head of structured equity and fund derivatives sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa until March 2016, when the Japanese bank announced its exit from equity derivatives in the region . Ricci joined the Japanese bank as head of derivatives sales for Southern Europe after working at L