Wiet Pot Said to Circle Back for Goldman’s Trading Unit

Wiet Pot, co-head of the Dutch high-speed trading firm that’s said to be bidding for Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s floor-trading business, is a former partner of the investment bank who once helped run its equities division.

Pot’s IMC Financial Markets has expanded from Amsterdam to Chicago and Sydney, where it uses algorithms to make markets in stocks, commodities and currencies. Pot serves with Rob Defares, one of IMC’s founders, as co-chief executive officer at IMC, which he joined in 2008.