Cheevers & Company, an agency-only brokerage providing execution services for a diverse range of institutional clients and asset managers in both domestic and international equities, has named Ryan Peterson as chief compliance officer.

Peterson comes to Cheevers & Company from Fox River Execution Technology, where he also served as chief compliance officer.

Unlike many other agency brokers in their space, Cheevers & Company has a team exclusively dedicated to compliance. The compliance team oversees risk management parameters and monitors the firm's trading activities. They ensure firm best practices, which are in place to help avoid "fat finger" errors, review the order audit trails, and fulfill industry regulations. The group also leads Cheevers & Company's quarterly attestations and annual compliance meetings.