JPMorgan has signed up derivatives broker Kieran O'Connor to source illiquid assets for it financial institution derivatives marketing group in London. Reached at JPMorgan, O'Connor declined all comment, but credit officials familiar with the hire said he reports to Ian Wilson, co-head of northern Europe derivatives marketing, and focuses on the U.K. and Holland. Wilson was off the desk and could not be reached by press time. Before JPMorgan, O'Connor ran his own multi asset-class brokering business called Cortin Capital. He is the second recent addition to the desk following Raymond de Kuiper, who landed this month from Morgan Stanley (DW, 3/10). Sarah Oppler, spokeswoman in
London, did not comment by press time.
