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Szucs and Shiff join BAML
LONDON - Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) continues to build up its foreign exchange franchise with the hire of a senior institutional salesperson from Morgan Stanley in London.
TD Securities brings in Goodacre
LONDON - TD Securities has hired Paul Goodacre as its London head of foreign exchange options, according to market sources.
FXall to release pre- and post-trade data analytics
NEW YORK - Foreign exchange electronic communications network (ECN) operator FXall plans to introduce a set of pre- and post-trade analytics based on the trading trends officials observe within the firm’s trading platforms.
CME speeds up product identification
CHICAGO – CME Group will release version 2.0 of its Fix/Fast market data messaging format in June, which aims to make it easier for user firms’ data and trading systems to identify updates for specific traded products among messages distributed by the…
Mass exodus from BarCap in New York
NEW YORK - Barclay Capital (BarCap) continues to haemorrhage forex sales staff as below-average compensation makes the bank’s employees prime recruitment targets, according to market sources.
Westpac targets real-money clients
LONDON & NEW YORK - Westpac is building up its coverage of real-money clients with two senior hires in London and New York.
Trading Places, April 26, 2010
This week's people moves across Europe, Asia and the US.
CIBC hires two in Toronto as markets restructure continues
CIBC has made two hires in derivatives and risk management as it continues to restructure its markets business.
Icap extends market data deal with Quick in Japan
Japanese market data vendor Quick has extended its partnership with interdealer broker Icap to include redistribution rights for the Icap Fix data service, which was launched at the end of last year to meet demand driven by growing regulatory and risk…
Casini finds new home at Credit Suisse
Enrico Casini is understood to have taken a senior European foreign exchange sales position within Credit Suisse following his departure from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) two weeks ago (FX Week, April 6).
Experts divided over central bank intervention
TORONTO - There were mixed views on the central bank intervention in currency markets seen since the crisis among speakers at the FX Invest North America congress in Toronto last Tuesday.
HSBC adds to spot desk in London amid growth
LONDON - HSBC has hired Frank Cahill as director on the G-10 spot desk in London.
BarCap launches onshore rates and FX trading in Australia
SYDNEY - Barclays Capital has launched onshore trading in rates and foreign exchange in Sydney, as part of plans to expand its domestic and regional presence.
Data availability lags behind market growth
TORONTO - Limitations on the availability of market data is one of the biggest challenges to growing buy-side volumes, said speakers at the FX Invest North America congress in Toronto last Tuesday (April 13).
Tactics come to fore amid heightened intervention
TORONTO - The increasing politicisation of currencies is forcing currency managers to operate more tactically, said speakers at the FX Invest North America congress in Toronto last Tuesday (April 13).
Bank of Canada salutes CLS
TORONTO - Bank of Canada became the latest monetary authority to publicly champion the success of industry utility CLS in ensuring the smooth operation of the foreign exchange market during the financial crisis.
Trading Places, April 19, 2010
People moves
DGCX adds three currency futures
DUBAI - The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) will launch three additional currency futures contracts in June, to take advantage of the growth momentum in incumbent products.
RBS to go live on CLS/Traiana JV
Royal Bank of Scotland is set to become the fourth bank to go live on the CLS/Traiana joint-venture trade aggregation service by early May, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Russia targets CLS inclusion by 2015
Settlement risk in Russia's ruble is preventing the currency realising its global ambitions
EU derivatives experts suggest threshold system for corporates
Legislators at the European Commission moved a step closer to determining whether non-financial users of over-the-counter derivatives should be forced to clear trades through central counterparties (CCPs) – a possibility corporates have vehemently…