Mattar, SG CIB, Jordan

Juliano Mattar is understood to have been hired by BNP Paribas in London as head of cross-asset class emerging market sales to asset managers and hedge funds. He previously worked at Deutsche Bank in London. BNP Paribas declined to comment.

Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB) has added to its fixed-income, currencies and commodities e-commerce team, hiring a new regional head.

Stéphane Malrait has been appointed to a newly created role as head of e-commerce for Europe and Asia. He joins from JP Morgan, where he had worked as global foreign exchange e-commerce business manager since 2005. In his new role, he will be based in London and report to Serge Topolanski, the bank's head of fixed income and FX trading.

Neena Dholani has also been hired as a director of e-commerce sales in London. She previously worked for electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess, in European sales. She will report to Malrait.

Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB) is understood to have lost a sales specialist covering Greek clients in London. Dimitrios Planiotis, who handled Greek corporate derivatives sales, is understood to have resigned from the French bank in the first week of September. SG CIB declined to comment.

Belen Jordan is understood to have been hired to service European clients at HBoS Treasury Services in London. Jordan previously worked for Standard Chartered in FX distribution. HBoS Treasury Services did not confirm the hire by press time.

RBC Capital Markets has hired Russell Jones as head of fixed income and currencies global research and Adam Cole as head of global foreign exchange strategy research.

Jones joins the bank in London from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, where he was a senior economist. At RBC, he reports to Bill Moriarty, head of global research, and Craig Wright, chief economist.

Cole joined the Canadian bank in 2004 and since that time has been senior currency strategist focused on the G-10 economies. Also based in London, Cole reports to Jones.

Ian Beauchamp, head of global rates strategy and Nick Chamie, head of emerging markets research also report to Jones. Beauchamp and Chamie are based in London and Toronto, respectively.

Jeff Roberts, a foreign exchange salesperson for Lehman Brothers in London, has left the firm market sources tell FX Week. He is believed to have sold to European institutions. His future plans are unknown.

Daniel Kinnear is expected to be resurfacing at Fortis in October as a director in corporate treasury sales looking after the business centres. Fortis did not confirm this by deadline. Kinnear is said to have previously worked in corporate risk advisory at Barclays Capital in London, before leaving the bank in July.

Mark Robson from ING is said to have joined National Australia Bank (NAB) in London. Robson is believed to be working in a proprietary trading role within NAB's FX team. NAB did not respond to enquiries by press time.

Jon Barker, head of European, Middle East and Africa e-fixed income sales at Citi in London is understood to be resurfacing at technology vendor Integral. He is believed to be starting on September 24 as global head of sales in London. Integral did not respond by press time.

Citi hired Craig Smyth in early September as an oil trader in Singapore, taking the US bank's commodities headcount in Asia to 14. Reporting to Ananth Doraswamy, Citi's head of commodities for Asia Pacific, Smyth

will trade crude oil futures, swaps and options, as well as refined oil products. He joins from Chevron USA in Singapore.