UniCredit continues European equity drive

The ambitious Italian bank is looking to grow its European equities business and has hired an experienced sales trader

Italian investment bank UniCredit has continued its push to reach the premier league of European equity brokers by hiring to its London-based team a sales trader from Evolution Securities.

Andrew Westoby, who spent eight years as a sales trader with agency broker Sanford Bernstein before joining Evolution in May last year, is set to start at UniCredit in early September.

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