Armins Rusis will join Markit as executive vice president and global co-head of fixed income, according to todays release from the firm.
Rusis will share responsibility for the firms data and analytics products with Kevin Gould, executive vice president and founder of Markit.
Most recently, Rusis was managing director and head of U.S. credit trading and global head of securitized and structured credit trading at Morgan Stanley, where he worked for 17 years. He was a member of the firms European management committee as well as its fixed-income operating committee, and also served as the Morgan Stanley board director of Markit for three years.