Career moves

Raymond James' 10 hires include six senior bankers and an entire Citi public finance team focused on California.

Costanzo is only the fourth woman to lead a municipal banking division. Huntington has hired Citi's entire Midwest public finance banking group, and Costanzo said the firm intends to further grow its footprint in the municipal space.

"Our firm is committed to expanding in regions and sectors with robust muni issuances and we view the K-14 market in California to be a great intersection of such," said Gary Hall, SWS president of infrastructure and public finance.

Cabrera Capital Markets is welcoming three new public finance hires who are joining the firm from UBS: Shawn Dralle, Shawnell Holman and Chris Bergstrom.

The bank has also hired some analysts to its infrastructure group over the past several weeks as it plans to beef up its muni team.

Three of the hires are group heads in public sector and structured finance businesses at the firm.

Public finance lawyers Alison Radecki and Helen Pennock, who come to the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, will work of of the New York City office.

Based in New York City, Ted Hynes has almost 40 years of experience in the fixed-income markets, the last 15 at Raymond James.

Western Alliance Bank has named Woo senior director of treasury management in the bank's corporate finance and public and nonprofit finance groups.

Municipal Market Analytics is expanding its business development arm.

Messina, a veteran public finance lawyer, will focus on senior living and life-plan communities.

Mallen will take over CFO duties from Amy Potter, who has been serving a dual role as CFO and deputy chief executive officer since December 2022.

The broker-dealer expands by creating its newly established public finance group in California.

"Jason has a proven record as an outstanding leader who brings clarity, decisiveness and expertise to his role with our Fixed Income Capital Markets division," said HilltopSecurities CEO Brad Winges.

Kristin Stephens will head the northeast region and David Moffett the southeast.

Jackie Wells, a former FINRA enforcement director, is the second leader from the industry's self-regulating body to join the firm in recent months.

Maggio joins KeyBanc from Hilltop Securities, where he was co-head of capital markets.

Mayor John Whitmire expressed confidence in Melissa Dubowski's ability to guide the city through its financial challenges.

Katz is well known for guiding operational improvement and expense control in the financial services sector, his new employer said.

"Hiring Giles along with other senior and experienced hires over the last year demonstrates our deep commitment to public finance at a time when our competitors are laying off in droves or retrenching from the sector entirely," said Suzanne Shank, president and CEO of Siebert Williams Shank.