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TD Securities shuts London trading floor as fire hits
Canadian dealer shifts trading to alternative locations
Credit Suisse hires e-FX chief
UBS vet re-joins peers at Swiss rival
CBA: Hung parliament won’t kill sterling
Euro-bearish CBA tops currency forecast index
Investors ditch Bric basket plays as correlation soars
Correlation between Bric currencies has risen steadily since the onset of the crisis as investors have allocated heavily in favour of emerging markets rather than G-10 currencies
Sentiment sours on dollar and sterling
John Kyriakopoulos, head of currency strategy in Sydney, Nick Parsons, head of markets strategy in London, and Gavin Friend, markets strategist in London at National Australia Bank, are pessimistic about the US dollar’s prospects for the rest of the year…
Risk reversals imply negative sentiment on sterling
The possibility of a hung parliament in the UK has spooked world markets, including foreign exchange
Goldman Sachs loses Sada-Paz
Mauricio Sada-Paz joins Bank of America Merrill Lynch
CME, Thomson Reuters unveil FX volumes
FX Week takes a look at what volume data from Thomson Reuters, CME Group and Icap unveils and gets the latest project Utah update.
European FX co-heads quit Morgan Stanley
Suczs and Ciavarini depart
Value managers top performers in February
RBS releases naive strategy simulation results
Gain Capital chooses StreamBase CEP
Gain Capital is upgrading its retail proprietary execution system.
HSBC fails to repeat 2008 performance in FX
FX Week peers under the bonnet at earnings statements this past week from HSBC and Standard Chartered.
UniCredit builds out in European sales
UniCredit hires two
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People moves
Logicscope expands TradeSTP offering
Logicscope pushes out improvements to its offering in post-trade FX automation.
Shock departure from Citi
De Groot jumps ship to BNP Paribas
HSBC names FX operations chief
Rochford takes top FX operations role
Greek swap use may influence EU derivatives legislation
The clock is ticking for the EU to put its proposed regulation for over-the-counter derivatives on the table, but will Greece's controversial use of currency swaps mean even tougher rules on transparency? FX Week asked the Commissioner responsible for…
Fritschi follows Jerome to Morgan Stanley
StanChart sees second bank sales departure
Europe excluded from CCP talks
The exclusion of European Union institutions from a technical working group set up to review risk management standards for central counterparties (CCPs) could make it difficult for the EU to reflect those standards in its forthcoming legislation on over…
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.