Hovde Group has hired a former banker to bolster its coverage of the financial services sector.
Brian Urness said in a LinkedIn post that he had been hired as a bank equity research associate. He joined the firm’s Nashville, Tenn., team.
Urness previously worked at FirstBank in Nashville, where he most recently served as a senior Treasury analyst, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Before joining FirstBank, he was an asset and liability management analyst at Credit Agricole CIB.