SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., a member of SMBC Group, announced that Bruce Mulder has joined the firm’s Fixed Income Sales & Trading Group as a Managing Director, Head of Structured Products Sales. In this role, he will oversee the Structured Credit Products sales team. He will report to Yunson Du, Head of Fixed Income Sales & Trading, and Senior Deputy President for SMBC Nikko Securities America.

“We are pleased to welcome a talent with extensive experience like Bruce to our team. He has led and managed structured credit sales groups at several leading global financial institutions over the last 20 years,” said Bungo Miura, Chairperson and President, SMBC Nikko Securities America. “Bringing Bruce on board to head our rapidly growing team is yet another important strategic new hire, and step, as we continue to expand the Fixed Income Sales & Trading business and Structured Products sales team.”

Prior to joining the firm, Mulder was a Managing Director at Natixis, where he had several roles, but notably was responsible for managing cross-asset sales teams and substantially growing revenue. Before joining Natixis, he spent four years as Director on the Credit Sales team at Crédit Agricole CIB, where he helped lead and build the sales teams and contributed to developing a new sales and trading platform for credit flow products, resulting in a new vertical of distribution. Prior to that, he worked for six years at Bear Stearns & Co., serving in various structured credit sales and financial analytics roles.

Mulder holds a Bachelor of Arts in business management/entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California (USC).