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Nomura loses chief economist
Peter Westaway, former head of the Bank of England's research division, has resigned from Nomura
CME Group recruits Knottenbelt from RBS
Industry veteran Willian Knottenbelt appointed to lead the exchange group’s Emea operations
Drysdale departs Goldman Sachs
FX options trader's departure is understood to be part of Goldman's global headcount-reduction exercise
Trading places, October 10, 2011
Appointments announced last week at London Stock Exchange, UBS, GFI and Société Générale CIB
Citi promotes Patel to run G-10 options
Chirag Patel will add G-10 to his existing responsibilities in FX options
Parr joins Bloomberg after departing Icap earlier this year
Robert Parr has joined Bloomberg Tradebook and will be responsible for FX sales in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Ferrini out of Commerzbank
Fabrizio Ferrini made redundant as Commerz relocates its Italy and Spain bank sales desks from London to Frankfurt
Saxo unveils Moscow office led by Dombrovan
Former investment analyst and IT specialist joined Saxo in Moscow last month
Urbanek departs BNP Paribas
Peter Urbanek worked in hedge fund sales in London
Loizou joins Anello Asset Management
Stavros Loizou joins from Lewis Charles Securities and will manage the Mantis Program, which will invest across equities, fixed income and G-10 currency pairs
Madar promoted global head of corporate FX sales at Deutsche Bank
Fabio Madar takes global head of corporate FX sales role
Reynolds leaves SG for asset manager
Adam Reynolds leaves Société Générale to join The Cambridge Strategy in Hong Kong
Hamilton joins VTB in London
Philip Hamilton joins Russian bank from Goldman Sachs
Leuschke joins Westpac in Auckland
Former RBS global head of FX sales joins Westpac in his home country, New Zealand
Walsh joins Lloyds to sell to alpha-generating FX clients
Mike Walsh joins from RBS, where he was head of FX sales to hedge funds
Trading Places, September 26, 2011
New appointments at Nomura, Ice Clear Europe, Thomson Reuters, the LSE and the LME
BBVA gains FX salesman from HSBC
Steven McEvoy joins Spanish bank in institutional FX sales
Richard Elliott joins UBS from BAML
BAML’s former head of e-FX options will be based in London with UBS, reporting to Tony Hall
SuperDerivatives hires corporate treasurer to push CorporeX platform
Oren Cohanoff joins from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, where he was deputy treasurer and global head of financial risk management
Crawford quits UniCredit in London
Italian bank loses its global head of FX, Nick Crawford
Antico departs BAML following recent promotion
Peter Antico has resigned from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, just months after his promotion to global head of G-10 currency trading was announced
Citi appoints three regional e-sales heads
Selene Cheng, Rakesh Purohit and Eugenia Hanoune promoted to lead FX e-sales in Singapore, New York and London respectively
FX veteran Hulina departs UBS
Co-head of Ficc distribution Ed Hulina will take time out of the industry before pursuing new opportunities next year