UK broker, Oriel Securities, has recruited three corporate financiers to its mining team following the alliance announced this week with Standard Bank, Africa's leading banking group, as it seeks to persuade more of the continent's private commodities companies to list on the London Stock Exchange.

Simon Edwards, most recently a director in the corporate finance team at Evolution Securities, has joined Oriel along with David Henry and Salma Seetaroo from Societe Generale, the company announced today.