Piper Sandler Companies announced the hiring of Ryan Hallamas a managing director and co-head of high-yield trading on the fixed income team. Hallam will be responsible for high-yield municipal sales and trading with a focus on large institutional accounts. Prior to joining Piper Sandler, Hallam spent 28 years at Citigroup Inc., most recently as a managing director and head of municipal sales, where he was one of the top-producing municipal salespeople.

Before that, Hallam was the head of municipal derivative sales at Citi, where he executed and structured derivative products that included tender option bond trusts, municipal rate locks, interest rate swaps and municipal credit default swaps. Hallam graduated from the State University of New York at Geneseo with a bachelor?s degree in finance and is also a CFA charter holder.