EXCLUSIVE: Gilly Meth to leave Morgan Stanley
19 February 2020 London
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Morgan Stanley managing director Gilly Meth is understood to be leaving the bank.
Meth, who is based in London, has been with the US bank for more than 30 years and gained the title of managing director in 2016.
Most recently, Meth serves as global head of relationship management and exclusive portfolio pricing for Morgan Stanley's bank resource management (BRM) business, which contains its fixed income, equities, and the prime brokerage desks.
Meth is also a member of the bank’s BRM management committee and the diversity action council, which aims to provide thought leadership on the firm’s cross-divisional diversity strategy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Prior to her most recent role, Meth spent time with the Morgan Stanley’s fixed income and equity divisions for both sales and trading.
Elsewhere, Meth was responsible for the creation of the lender relationship management group and leading this effort in Europe, the US and Asia.
In 2019, Meth co-chaired ISLA’s annual conference, held in Madrid, which she led alongside BlackRock’s James Templeman.
She is a long-standing and active contributor to the securities lending industry’s conference calendar and has spoken on multiple panels in the US, Asia and Europe including at events hosted by the Risk Management Association, the IMN, and the Pan Asia Securities Lending Association.
Meth is also a driving force behind the Women in Securities Finance industry group, which launched in 2018.
Speaking to SLT last year as part of
a panel discussion of the group’s members on diversity in the securities lending industry, Meth said: “I have a large group of females that I mentor both internally and externally within this business and others. It is extremely rewarding when you see people progress and find their feet in this industry.”
“At Morgan Stanley, we have programmes specifically targeting sixth-form girls to give them an insight into the business and the huge diversity of roles available,” she added. “In my opinion, the opportunities for females in this business have never been greater than they are today.”
For Morgan Stanley, Meth’s imminent departure marks the latest in a series of high-profile role changes in recent months.
In January, the bank promoted Arianne Collette to global head of strategic client engagement.
Collette first joined the bank’s New York office in 2005 as a securities lending equity trader and has since held a variety of roles including fixed income repo trader and global securities financing transaction project manager of central counterparties.
Elsewhere, in December, Morgan Stanley told several members of its secured funding desk that their jobs are at risk, as part of a major restructuring effort, with Simon Picton and Paul Furzer among the first to leave.
Furzer was with the bank for more than 22 years and served as executive director, securities financing, based in London.
Picton joined the bank in 2013 and most recently held the position of vice president within its BRM business.
Meth, who is based in London, has been with the US bank for more than 30 years and gained the title of managing director in 2016.
Most recently, Meth serves as global head of relationship management and exclusive portfolio pricing for Morgan Stanley's bank resource management (BRM) business, which contains its fixed income, equities, and the prime brokerage desks.
Meth is also a member of the bank’s BRM management committee and the diversity action council, which aims to provide thought leadership on the firm’s cross-divisional diversity strategy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Prior to her most recent role, Meth spent time with the Morgan Stanley’s fixed income and equity divisions for both sales and trading.
Elsewhere, Meth was responsible for the creation of the lender relationship management group and leading this effort in Europe, the US and Asia.
In 2019, Meth co-chaired ISLA’s annual conference, held in Madrid, which she led alongside BlackRock’s James Templeman.
She is a long-standing and active contributor to the securities lending industry’s conference calendar and has spoken on multiple panels in the US, Asia and Europe including at events hosted by the Risk Management Association, the IMN, and the Pan Asia Securities Lending Association.
Meth is also a driving force behind the Women in Securities Finance industry group, which launched in 2018.
Speaking to SLT last year as part of
a panel discussion of the group’s members on diversity in the securities lending industry, Meth said: “I have a large group of females that I mentor both internally and externally within this business and others. It is extremely rewarding when you see people progress and find their feet in this industry.”
“At Morgan Stanley, we have programmes specifically targeting sixth-form girls to give them an insight into the business and the huge diversity of roles available,” she added. “In my opinion, the opportunities for females in this business have never been greater than they are today.”
For Morgan Stanley, Meth’s imminent departure marks the latest in a series of high-profile role changes in recent months.
In January, the bank promoted Arianne Collette to global head of strategic client engagement.
Collette first joined the bank’s New York office in 2005 as a securities lending equity trader and has since held a variety of roles including fixed income repo trader and global securities financing transaction project manager of central counterparties.
Elsewhere, in December, Morgan Stanley told several members of its secured funding desk that their jobs are at risk, as part of a major restructuring effort, with Simon Picton and Paul Furzer among the first to leave.
Furzer was with the bank for more than 22 years and served as executive director, securities financing, based in London.
Picton joined the bank in 2013 and most recently held the position of vice president within its BRM business.
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