SWS Securities, a financial services firm with fixed income sell-side operations in six U.S. cities, is hoping to hire as many as 10 corporate bond salespeople for its New York office. Rob Nash, the firm's Dallas-based head of fixed-income, says SWS Securities has been looking to increase its fixed-income presence for several months. The effort got an important boost, he says, when the firm persuaded Andrew Conway to join in New York as senior v.p. and head of corporate bond trading. Conway resigned from RBC Capital Markets at the end of last year to take what he says is "a phenomenal opportunity with a growth firm." He had worked at the firm for 25 years as a corporate bond trader. A call to Simon Ling, Conway's former boss at RBC, was not returned.
Dealer Looks To Beef Up Corporate Sales Effort