I.D.E.A. Hires MMS's Chandler But Loses Karydakis, Two Others

I.D.E.A., which operates a foreign exchange analysis screen service on Reuters, has hired Marc Chandler as its chief currency analyst in New York. Chandler was formerly the chief currency analyst at Money Market Services in Chicago.

Meanwhile, Anthony Karydakis, a money market economist who joined I.D.E.A. in London from Mitsubishi Bank, has left after three weeks to join the First National Bank of Chicago as a senior financial economist. In addition, I.D.E.A. lost two junior economists recently