About Us
We provide original and innovative trading and investment ideas, with a dedicated focus on risk arbitrage, special situations, relative value and event-driven opportunity.
Brokerage Firm Sales
Team Equity
Special Situations
2019
Brokerage Firm Sales
Team Equity
Special Situations
2018
Brokerage Firm Sales
Team Equity
Special Situations
2017
Create to Innovate
Makor Group was first established in 2011. It is comprised of several entities with locations in London, New York, Tel Aviv, Paris, Geneva, Gibraltar, Singapore and Melbourne.
Makor aims to provide bespoke execution and advisory services to leading institutional investors in Equity, Fixed Income, FX and specialized strategies, offering efficient execution of investment strategy through the provision of access to liquidity across more than 90 trading venues worldwide.
Mr. Michael Halimi started his career at Société Générale in Paris in 1992 as part of the FX options and derivatives division.
Prior to founding Makor in 2011, he worked at Cantor Fitzgerald for 14 years where Michael first established an interest rate derivatives desk.
In September 1999, he implemented the European Equity sales and trading desk of Cantor Fitzgerald. He then became a senior managing director in 2007.
Michael received his MBA in Financial Markets in June 1992 from the University of Dauphine in Paris.
Mr. Avi Bouhadana has 19 years experience in the Capital Markets industry and was previously Partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he was Co-Global Head of Equities Sales.
He worked at Cantor for 14 years and in September 1999, he implemented the European Equity Platform of Cantor Fitzgerald. He then became a senior managing director in 2007.
Avi Bouhadana graduated from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal.
After working at Ernst & Young for 5 years, in 2001 Efraim Wolpert joined Execution Limited, a startup London based institutional stock broking business as CFO. Execution grew into a $85m business employing 125 people in London, Connecticut and Hong Kong.
In March 2009 Efraim left the UK for Israel and worked as an outsourced CFO to Israeli based subsidiaries of international groups before joining the Makor Group in November 2010.
Efraim is a Chartered Accountant and has a Business Finance Degree (First Class Honours) from the University of Cape Town.
Mr. Yankel Hassan has 15 years of experience in the Capital Markets Industry.
For 10 years, he worked in Equity Sales at Cantor Fitzgerald London, eventually becoming co-manager of the Cash Equity Arbitrage Desk.
Yankel received a Master’s degree in Financial Markets from Dauphine University in Paris.
Michael Benitah started in the industry in 1996 trading FX within several banks (Republic National Bank, Bank Safra and Bear Stearns) before joining Cantor Fitzgerald in 2008 to setup and manage the FX agency desk.
Michael studied at ISG in Paris.
Todd Foreman joined the Makor Group as General Counsel in 2019 with over two decades’ experience in cross-border financial services transactions, regulation and compliance. He provides Makor’s directors with strategic legal and regulatory advice, manages the Group’s legal function and use of external counsel and plays a key role in the Group’s corporate development transactions.
Mr Foreman is admitted as an attorney in the State of New York and as a solicitor in England and Wales. He holds a BA in French and political science from Grinnell College, a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an LLM in banking and finance law from King’s College, London.
Latest News
10 May 2022
Makor Becomes a Member of London Stock Exchange and Turquoise
Makor Group today announces that its London and Paris-based entities have become members of the London Stock Exchange and Turquoise MTF.
30 March 2022
Makor Securities Hires Ozan Kalemdaroglu to Makor Fixed Income Division
Makor Group is pleased to announce today its hire of Ozan Kalemdaroglu, who is joining the fixed income/FX arm of Makor Group.
20 October 2021
Makor Group and Enigma Securities retained as Execution Partners for Melanion Capital
Enigma Securities executed an agreement with Melanion Capital as Execution Partner for the newly created Melanion ETF Business.