ITG staffs up in Asia as Posit nears Australia launch

Posit Marketplace, an aggregator of dark pools for equity traders run by Investment Technology Group (ITG), is just weeks away from launching an Australian venue. It will be run in Sydney by Dion Cooney, who has worked for ITG, a US-based agency broker and financial technology firm, for nearly 10 years, the past five in the New York office. Cooney moved back to his native Australia in January to take up the position of head of Australian sales in Sydney, reporting to Michael Corcoran,…