Piper Sandler Companies has launched equities trading in Europe and opened a new office in Paris, led by Ben Allen, head of sales and trading for Piper Sandler Europe. The firm appointed two strategic hires for the Paris office: Louis Renaudie as senior equity sales, most recently with BNP Paribas' U.S. and international equities distribution business in Paris, and Louis Carpentier as a senior equity sales-trader, previously in global equity trading at Edmond de Rothschild and before that at Société Générale Private Banking France. Through Piper Sandler Europe, the firm has received regulatory approval in France for equities trading and secured passporting rights across Europe. As part of the European expansion plan, Piper Sandler has hired a total of eight sales and trading professionals, following last year's opening of an office in Zurich, Switzerland led by Alex Molloy, Vincenzo Pescuma and Luigi Colazzo. Piper Sandler was voted by the buyside as the #1 small and mid-cap liquidity provider in the 2025 Extel U.S. Equity Trading Study, and its equity research platform is consistently ranked among the top 10 investment banks in the world for the largest coverage universe of U.S. equities, according to Thomson Reuters' Starmine.
Piper Sandler CompaniesPiper Sandler received French regulatory approval for equities trading and secured passporting rights across Europe, enabling its expansion.
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