Amundi has appointed Grégoire Blanc as head of capital markets and liquidity for the ETF, indexing and smart beta section of its business.

The asset manager believes that Mr Blanc has a deep understanding of the drivers of ETF liquidity and of the ETF market. He joins Amundi from Vanguard, where he worked as senior ETF trading and execution product manager for 15 months.

Mr Blanc has worked in the ETF industry for over a decade and previously built and led the capital markets team at Lyxor. He was head of capital markets for five-and-a-half years at the firm, and worked there for a total of nine years, having joined in 2009 as an ETF broker.

Amundi is Europe’s largest asset manager, and after the acquisition of Pioneer Investments it now manages €1.487 trillion. It has approximately 4,500 team members and market experts working across 37 countries and six main investment hubs. It is headquartered in Paris, and has been listed on the Paris Stock Exchange since November 2015.