Birmingham, AL-based Sterne, Agee & Leach, a
privately-owned investment banking and brokerage firm, has expanded its fixed
income division with the addition of Dan Ladley, Ron Pimental and Alan
Stentiford.

Ladley, Pimental and Stentiford have joined Sterne Agee as a
part of the firm’s execution solutions team in New York. They will provide clients with liquidity and
global execution services, with a focus on serving transition
brokers, private clients, middle-market and clearing clients.  

Pimental joins from JP Morgan with over 25 years of global
fixed income sales and trading experience. At JP Morgan, he served as head of fixed
income in trading service, which was part of their treasury and security service
business. He joined JP Morgan in 2008 after the purchase of Bear Stearns.

Ladley also joins Sterne Agee from JP Morgan, where he was
part of the fixed income sales and trading group focused on Transition, ETF and
broker-dealer clients. He joined JP Morgan after the purchase of Bear Stearns.

Stentiford has over 25 years of fixed income sales and
trading experience and joins Sterne from JP Morgan (Bear Stearns), where he
spent eight years focused on trading and developing analytics for transition
trading and ETFs.