Westdeutsche Landesbank Lands UBS's Matthews

Not content to limit its activities to the interbank market, the New York office of Westdeutsche Landesbank (West LB) is gearing up to elbow its way more aggressively into the crowded corporate foreign exchange field, and has hired Kristina Matthews from Union Bank of Switzerland's New York office as vice president and manager of its new corporate desk.

Matthews, who started at West LB on Monday, June 18, is the second experienced hand West LB has brought on board to launch its entrance into the