Cantor hires fresh faces for Abu Dhabi office

Cantor Fitzgerald is hiring 16 people to build out its Abu Dhabi fixed income desk, deepening its Middle East push, Bloomberg reports. Most of the new hires will sit in Abu Dhabi, with the rest split between London and Singapore. The team will be led by former Stifel executive Tom Goodale (LinkedIn), who joined with 10 former colleagues.

The hires will be working closely with our friend and former EFG Hermes Equity Capital Markets head Ali Khalpey (LinkedIn), who was appointed last year to lead Cantor's regional investment banking and capital markets business and build a 25-50-person team across Abu Dhabi and Dubai.