Barclays
Barclays appoints Cartledge to head new e-Ficc team
Management changes at Barclays globally after Cartledge takes on role leading the bank's new electronic Ficc trading team
Barclays appoints McGowan to head FX trading
Former global FX options and forwards head Adrian McGowan receives second promotion in just over a year
FX salesman heads back to Barclays
Barry John Madden has moved back to Barclays after a short stint at National Australia Bank; other moves at Markit, SEB and the Bank of England
Goldman Sachs hires ex-Citi salesman
New hire in FX sales at Goldman Sachs; other moves at Barclays, RBS, UBS and Credit Suisse
Barclays to add algo tools to Gator aggregator
Barclays will add new, less aggressive algos to Gator in the fourth quarter as it looks to make the product more accessible to real-money and corporate clients that prefer to trade with minimal market impact
Research veteran McCormick joins Barclays
Hedge fund strategist Jim McCormick to head asset allocation research at the UK bank
Barclays FX flow options head departs
Gugesh Guganeswaran has left the bank in London; other FX hires at RBC and SG CIB, while BNP Paribas reshuffles in strategy and Credit Suisse appoints a new chief risk officer
Ivan Ritossa joins Icap board
Former global head of FX left Barclays last year and recently took up the non-executive position on the board of interdealer broker Icap
Citi loses in e-FX sales
Eugenia Hanoune, head of e-FX sales for Emea, sees a number of departures from her team in London
NAB expands e-FX sales team
New hires in London and Sydney for National Australia Bank, following the recent promotion of Justin Geaney to head of Ficc digital
ANZ hires FX investor sales head
Australian bank has appointed Tim Moloney, formerly of Barclays, to replace Thomas Mummert in the top sales role
Aggregation hampered by predatory execution
New aggregation guidelines from EBS could help to increase transparency of aggregation, but the relationship between liquidity makers and takers remains strained
ParFX targets buy side inclusion by Q4
The platform will open its doors to non-bank market participants later this year in what will be the real test of its level-playing-field design
Trading Places, May 20, 2013
CIBC wins from Barclays in sales, while Citi loses in precious metals
Barclays rises as BoJ sends yen plummeting
UK bank wins in FX Week's one-month rankings after forecasting continued yen weakness in April
Lloyds hires global head of corporate FX solutions
Former Barclays sales head joins Lloyds to develop FX risk management offerings for corporate clients
Barclays' Steck joins TD Securities in New York
Tonia Steck, who recently departed from Barclays in New York, will join the Canadian bank in June
Barclays loses three in FX sales
UK bank sees three departures from its sales team across the globe
UBS salesman returns after three years at Barclays
Swiss bank has re-hired an institutional FX salesman in Stamford who left the bank in 2010 to join Barclays in New York
Sterling expected to slide further after UK downgrade
FX traders and strategists believe the pound still has further to fall, having already depreciated significantly against the dollar since January
CLS continues hiring spree with new legal head
Alan Marquard, formerly head of legal at Absa Capital, has been appointed chief legal officer at CLS, starting on Monday
Barclays launches client aggregator in response to fragmentation
Gator smart order routing tool has been tested internally by Barclays spot traders for more than a year, and is now being rolled out to clients
The advantages of algo execution
As both Barclays and UBS prepare to launch new algo execution tools for foreign exchange in the coming weeks, the space is becoming increasingly crowded – but it appears to be driven by strong demand from the buy side. Miriam Siers reports
Trading places, February 18, 2013
Recent departures at Aspen Trading, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and UniCredit