Paul Johnson

Barclays has appointed Paul Johnson as head of equities, Asia-Pacific. He will lead the equities franchise in the region with a focus on equity derivatives, equity-linked financing, electronic trading, and have oversight for Prime, the bank’s comprehensive global financing platform across asset classes and products.

Based in Hong Kong, Johnson will report functionally to Scott McDavid, global head of equities, and regionally to Jaideep Khanna, chief executive officer of Barclays, Asia-Pacific, and head of markets, Asia-Pacific.

Johnson has over two decades of experience in equities and derivatives across global markets. Most recently, he served as APAC co-head of equity derivatives and head of exotics equity derivatives trading at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.

Prior to that, he was head of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa ( CEEMEA ) and Latin America foreign exchange option ( FXO ) trading at Bank of America, London, where he focused on building out new franchises in the Middle East and North Africa ( MENA ), and at Goldman Sachs trading CEEMEA FXO for over ten years.