Jefferies poached a tech MD from JPMorgan's highest flying trading team
In 2021, JPMorgan's head of equity derivatives technology left the bank in the first few weeks of the year to join a rival US bank. Five years later, history has repeated itself.
Click here to join the bubble by eFinancialCareers, our new anonymous community. ✍️
Robin Weisberg has left JPMorgan to join Jefferies as its global head of equities technology, based in New York. His last day at JPMorgan was yesterday, according to FINRA's BrokerCheck tool. He seemingly leaves the bank on a high note: JPMorgan's equities trading division had the highest year-on-year increase in revenues for 2025 of all its teams in banking and markets.
Weisberg spent the last fifteen years at JPMorgan, making MD in 2018. He assumed his role as equity derivatives tech head following the departure of Peter Jepson to Citi in 2021. Pre-JPMorgan, Weisberg was a director of electronic liquidity trading at Barclays, and also worked as a high-frequency trader at now-defunct hedge fund Scout Capital.
Jefferies, with the addition of Weisberg, has hired multiple MDs already in 2026, after supposedly hiring just five externally over the entirety of 2025. Perhaps the bank is swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction, having previously been known as a bank big on external hiring.
Perhaps, instead, the bank is capitalizing on opportunities for disgruntled bank staff post-bonuses before returning to its new normal. Given the excellent performance of JPMorgan's equities team, Weisberg may have felt deserving of a bigger bonus than was offered.
Jefferies did not respond to a request for comment.
Have a confidential story, tip, or comment you’d like to share? Contact: Telegram: @AlexMcMurray, WhatsApp: (+1 269 237 3950). Click here to fill in our anonymous form, or email editortips@efinancialcareers.com.
Bear with us if you leave a comment at the bottom of this article: all our comments are moderated by human beings. Sometimes these humans might be asleep, or away from their desks, so it may take a while for your comment to appear. Eventually it will – unless it’s offensive or libelous (in which case it won’t.)
Image Source: Envato
