BlackRock taps EQD head from Citi

Rachel Lord, head of corporate equity derivatives at Citigroup in London has left the firm to join BlackRock as head of Europe, the Middle East & Africa (Emea) iShares, according to a memo seen by SRP. Lord will run the European arm of BlackRock's exchange-traded funds division, iShares. She replaces Joe Linhares - who will return to the US at the end of the year - and will report to David Blumer, head of BlackRock (Emea) and Mark Wiedman, global head of iShares. "Our primary challenge in