Liquidnet, the institutional trading network, has hired Julien Fougere and Stuart Thompson to its London-based EMEA trading team to strengthen and build relationships with asset management firms. Fougere has been named head of trading coverage EMEA, with responsibility for its buy-side institutional relationships. He was previously managing director of pan-European sales trading at Merrill Lynch. Thompson joins as an execution trader and will work with clients via the company's trading desk and algorithms suite. He was previously a sales and risk trader for Citadel Execution Services.