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BNPP carves out bigger sales team
LONDON & NEW YORK – BNP Paribas (BNPP) has expanded its sales team with a key hire in London and three new starters in New York.
FX industry creates lobby group
BRUSSELS - The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) is establishing a representative group for foreign exchange participants, amid the threat of increased forex regulation.
Beriot in shock move to Citi from SocGen
LONDON & NEW YORK - Citi has made a key hire from Société Générale in institutional sales, a week after the departure of Jan Bak, head of non-UK European institutional sales in London.
Euro to continue decline
LONDON – Analysts are predicting further euro weakness, expecting the unit to return to 1.2135, with the short covering correction be short-lived.
RBC Capital Markets adds in Asia
SINGAPORE & SYDNEY - RBC Capital Markets has added two hires to its global FX team in the Asia-Pacific region, with the appointments of Winston Quek and Amanda Lowe.
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Clients drive cross-asset trading
LONDON - Increased demand for cross-asset trading by hedge funds and asset managers will force the merger of foreign exchange and derivatives businesses, according to panellists at the FX Week webinar, FX technology arms race: the battle for market share…
Banks widen scope of IT budgets
Speakers at the FX Week webinar, FX technology arms race: the battle for market share, last Tuesday (April 20) covered a wide range of issues facing the industry post-crisis, including regulation, customers' increased demands and post-trade processing.
JP Morgan in e-FX build
LONDON – JP Morgan is continuing to build up product capabilities on its internally developed single-dealer system, MorganDirect, after switching off the pre-existing AVT-based system JPex last month.
Sovereign debt and LatAm-related hedging key for Spanish dealers
Spanish dealers explain how hedging related to sovereign debt issuance and Latin America will be key revenue sources in 2010
Société Générale re-builds FX trading
O'Sullivan set to join as co-head of trading
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Structured products had strong finish to 2009, says Greenwich Associates
The global retail structured products market made a strong comeback at the end of last year, is poised to return to previous levels and might even grow in the near future, according to research by Greenwich Associates.
A sterling outlook?
FX Week sounded out the bears and the not so bearish on the outlook for cable and EUR/GBP over the next six to 12 months.
Trading Places, February 1, 2010
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Société Générale strengthens Japan FX business team
French dealer continues global build
Newedge re-structures its fixed-income team
Newedge re-structures FICC team.
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Sennik quits Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse loses top FX options trader Chetan Sennik.