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Ben Homsy departs JP Morgan
Head of European hedge fund sales is relocating from London to Canada for personal reasons
Amol Devani quits options role at Goldman Sachs
Head of FX options in London leaves Goldman Sachs after nearly four years, having joined the bank in 2008
Trading places, January 30, 2012
New appointments at UniCredit, BAML, SG CIB and FXecosystem
Ashraf Laidi joins City Index
Former CMC strategist will continue to run his own start-up consultancy in addition to his new role
Mettler retires from Morgan Stanley
Stephen Mettler, who runs Morgan Stanley's interest rates and foreign exchange business, is leaving the bank
Banca IMI expands sales team in London
Italian bank recruits two salespeople to work across asset classes in London
French banks switch forex strategists
Lauren Rosborough joins SG CIB from Westpac, following the departure of Michael Sneyd for BNP Paribas
Mike Burton quits SG CIB
Departure of the bank's head of FX sales follows that of David Knott, who he reported to, earlier this month
Trading places, January 23, 2012
New appointments at Icap, Henderson, CLS, CIBC and Cloud Trading Technologies
FXall expands in Asia and New York
Indu Maheshwari joins from Thomson Reuters in Singapore, as FXall confirms the appointment of Susan Gammage in New York and a new chief human resources officer, Jody Tracey
Brevan Howard appoints Juma from UBS
Former prop trader will join Brevan Howard in Hong Kong in March
Boisson departs FX sales role at BNP Paribas
Francois Boisson is understood to be leaving the industry to focus on an entrepreneurial project
Nomura names Ashley as global head of fixed income
Steve Ashley has been promoted to global head of fixed income at Nomura, with Georges Assi as his deputy
Trading places, January 16, 2012
New appointments at TriOptima, MarketPrizm, Celent, the FSA and the Futures Industry Association
Mandell quits Standard Chartered
US institutional sales head has previously held senior FX roles at RBS and Bank of America
Lloyds appoints Moore as head of trading
Former Citi fixed-income head and MF Global chief executive for Europe will join Lloyds on March 1
ACI FX committee adds corporate members
Representatives from Google and Ericsson join the FX industry association
Ex-RBS options trader moves to Crossbridge Capital in Singapore
Galen Murphy left RBS last year with Nick Gentle and Pauric Hanna, who are now at UniCredit and CIBC respectively
Newedge hires Roper in FX sales
Andrew Roper joins Newedge from UniCredit, where he worked in FX institutional sales
Tarun Jotwani to leave Nomura
Global head of markets is made redundant from the Japanese bank
Morgan Stanley cuts hit FX sales and trading
Job cuts at the US bank claim four salespeople and two traders in New York and London
Rabobank hires FX strategist in London
Christian Lawrence joins from RBC Capital Markets, and reports to Jane Foley
LCH.Clearnet hires options technology head from BAML
Emanur Rahman will report to CIO Tom Zschach, who also joined from BAML last year
David Knott departs SG CIB
Co-head of flow fixed income and currencies is to leave the French bank, according to memo circulated this morning