
HSBC hires FX derivatives head for UK

LONDON – HSBC has hired Adam Dowsett to manage a team of seven in the structured foreign exchange derivatives business, UK corporate and commercial sales.
Dowsett will join HSBC from Anglo Irish Bank in London, where he was head of the financial institutions dealing desk. He had worked at the bank since 2004, most recently as a senior dealer and before that a treasury sales consultant. Prior to Anglo Irish Bank, he worked at Forex Group Australia as a dealer in corporate and commercial foreign
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