People: Barclays hires J.P. Morgan’s head of futures and options

In his new role, Ward (pictured) will be responsible for the UK bank’s electronic agenda as the BARX offering. He will join the bank in September and report to C.S. Venkatakrishnan , global head of markets, and co-president of Barclays Bank. Ward joins from J.P. Morgan where he has spent the last 11 years, most recently as global head of futures & options trading. He has extensive experience in electronic trading having served at Barclays for a short stint in 2008 in a futures and opt