Barclays has poached a senior strats executive from Goldman Sachs to head up its quantitative trading unit, as part of the UK bank’s plan to builds out its equities business.
Aytac Ilhan (pictured) has joined the UK bank as head of quantitative investment strategies (QIS). She will have responsibility for automating platforms for the Corporate and Investment Bank’s (CIB) index business and developing investment solutions for clients. Based in London, Ilhan reports to Ashish Prabhudesai, Barclays’ global head of equity derivatives. Ilhan joins from Goldman Sachs where she was a managing director, global head of systematic trading strategies (strats) desk