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RBC Capital Markets cuts London forex
LONDON - RBC Capital Markets has made cuts to its London foreign exchange team in the wake of a fall-off in second-quarter results.
Saxo opens in Tokyo
TOKYO - Saxo Bank has announced it is opening a Tokyo office, Saxo Bank Japan, to expand its trading presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
More FX departures at Bear Stearns
NEW YORK & LONDON - Bear Stearns' foreign exchange team continues to suffer departures as the bank's FX business gets merged with that of JP Morgan.
More FX departures at Bear Stearns
NEW YORK & LONDON - Bear Stearns' foreign exchange team continues to suffer departures as the bank's FX business gets merged with that of JP Morgan.
Global heads quit StanChart
SINGAPORE - Standard Chartered has been hit by senior management departures in Singapore, amid the bank's continuing restructuring, launched at the end of last year.
Ex-EBS chief now at SuperD
LONDON - Jack Jeffery, former chief executive at electronic spot broker EBS, has resurfaced at options pricing and risk management software vendor SuperDerivatives.
BoA’s Gotelli joins Wells Fargo
SAN FRANCISCO – Wells Fargo has hired Bob Gotelli as head of global sales for corporate foreign exchange in San Francisco.
Five go to Deutsche in North America
NEW YORK – Deutsche Bank Securities has made five hires in its foreign exchange sales and trading team for North America.
Bear Stearns gets the axe
LONDON AND NEW YORK - JP Morgan has taken a hatchet to Bear Stearns' foreign exchange business in London and New York, with 62 of 73 positions set to be put on notice, according to a senior Bear Stearns official.
BoA names global sales head
SINGAPORE & NEW YORK - Bank of America (BoA) has appointed a new global head of currency sales, over a month after the announced departure of former foreign exchange sales chief Bob Gotelli.
JP Morgan chases commodities in Asia
HONG KONG & SINGAPORE - JP Morgan has hired Oral Dawe from rival Goldman Sachs as its chief executive of Asia-Pacific commodities. Dawe was previously co-head of commodities for Asia alongside Allan Marson at Goldman Sachs. Marson is now the sole head of…
Merrill Lynch FICC team faces cuts
LONDON - Merrill Lynch put more than 80 members of staff in its fixed-income currencies and commodities (FICC) group in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region on a 90-day consultation period last Wednesday (April 23).
Dresdner reshuffles FX sales and trading
LONDON & NEW YORK - Dresdner Kleinwort has restructured its London and New York foreign exchange sales and trading team, splitting the trading and sales operations.
Deutsche loses McGowan to Barclays Capital
LONDON & SINGAPORE - Adrian McGowan, a managing director in the foreign exchange complex risk group at Deutsche Bank in London, has left the bank.
Musical chairs at Goldman Sachs
LONDON - Goldman Sachs is seeing a number of changes at its foreign exchange sales and trading team in London, sources tell FX Week .
StanChart raids Lehman Bros for structured products team
LONDON & SINGAPORE - Standard Chartered has poached three senior managers from Lehman Brothers, to expand its Singapore-based global structured products trading operation.
RBS announces new GFI sales force
LONDON, SINGAPORE & GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT - The Royal Bank of Scotland has outlined its sales structure following the acquisition of ABN Amro at the end of last year.
Goulet, Calyon, Alexandre
Goulet, Calyon, Alexandre