
UBS nabs BarCap trio in e-FX

Chris Purves joins the bank in October as a managing director and global head of foreign exchange electronic trading, reporting to Chris Vogelgesang in Zurich and Arie Adler in Washington, DC, both managing directors and co-heads of global FX trading.
Mark Meredith and Parwinder Sekhon will also join in October, as head of FX e-trading quantitative analytics and head of FX e-trading infrastructure, respectively. Both will work alongside UBS's algorithmic team under Thomas Klocker, head of
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