Morgan Stanley
Banks beef up quant solutions for FX in response to buy-side demand
Morgan Stanley and Commerzbank are investing in quantitative offerings as a part of their FX strategy, but other banks are pulling back from the business
Trading Places, April 8, 2013
Morgan Stanley loses strategist to Goldman Sachs while money-manager ParamountForex.com hires in sales
Morgan Stanley emerging markets trading head retires
Jens Andersen leaves Morgan Stanley this month, after 15 years at the bank
UBS becomes eighth liquidity provider on FXSpotStream
Swiss bank scheduled to be live by late in the second quarter as the aggregation service continues to gain traction, with plans to expand into new products
StanChart hires Darwell from Morgan Stanley
Eric Darwell will join Standard Chartered in New York next month to head up Asian FX trading in the region
Haskins joins Nomura to head North American FX sales
Morgan Stanley's former head of emerging market and FX sales for the Americas moves to similar role at Nomura
Central banks grapple with risks arising from FX reserves
Holdings of foreign exchange reserves at central banks has increased since the crisis, and market participants believe diversification into new currencies could now pick up
Trading places, March 11, 2013
New appointment at BNY Mellon Asset Management, while Morgan Stanley loses a sales head in Asia
Trading places, February 18, 2013
Recent departures at Aspen Trading, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and UniCredit
Trading places, February 11, 2013
New hires in FX at Brevan Howard and Stone Milliner, while EBS appoints a sales manager in London and the WMBA elects a new chair for the Americas
Trading places, February 4, 2013
Morgan Stanley hires in FX sales, while Legal & General unveils a management reshuffle
Further exits at Morgan Stanley as US sales head departs
Thomas Haskins and Juha Sternberg have left the US bank in New York and London, as cuts continue to bite into the FX business
Senior salesman exits Deutsche
Former Morgan Stanley FX sales head leaves Deutsche Bank in New York
Five down in FX at Morgan Stanley
Spate of departures from the FX business in London coincides with the bank's cull of 1,600 jobs
Trading places, January 14, 2013
New appointments at Barclays, BlueMountain and the FIA, while Morgan Stanley FX prime brokerage co-head relocates to London
Gelber's Swiss chief joins Stone Milliner
FX industry veteran has joined Stone Milliner as a portfolio manager in Zurich
Senior spot trader departs Deutsche after closure of prop desk
Deutsche Bank last month shut down its proprietary FX trading desk in London, leading to the departure of the senior trader who ran the desk
Macro sales head departs RBC Capital Markets
Royal Bank of Canada's global head of macro FX sales in London is leaving the bank
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Taking HFT to task
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Tullett Prebon hires ex-Faros trading head
The interdealer broker is expanding its resources as it seeks to use the Chapdelaine business it acquired to build an agency desk
BNP Paribas hires in sales and strategy in New York
Three new hires to the FX team at BNP Paribas, from Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Wells Fargo
CLS adds to board with Nolop appointment
Bruce Nolop has been appointed to the board of CLS, the firm announced on Friday