Articles by Chiara Albanese
BarCap loses three in sales and trading
Asif Khattak, Richard de Meo and Matt Gardiner have all left Barclays Capital
Brides joins Citi from Goldman Sachs
FX spot trader will report to Rohan Ramchandani
HSBC gains and loses in FX sales
Alex Scountjos joins from Barclays Capital and Yorke O'Leary from Goldman Sachs
Nick Donovan departs Goldman for Deutsche
FX salesman to join Deutsche Bank in Asia, but exact role not yet known
BNP Paribas confirms research appointments
Saywell and Attrill will head FX strategy in Europe and North America respectively, following departures earlier in the year
Further liquidity fragmentation in FX predicted
Market-damaging behaviour should be controlled, but separation or elimination of high-frequency trading would be damaging to the market’s equilibrium, ClientKnowledge argues in research published today
Hiring frenzy
After a typically busy hiring season during the first half of the year, Chiara Albanese takes stock of some of the biggest appointments and talks to headhunters about the trends driving FX recruitment in 2011
ING loses three in FX sales
Daniel Morton, Brendan Shanks and Victor Hamoush have all left the London sales desk
HSBC recruits Thursfield in EM spot
Emerging market FX trader joins from UBS
Eurodollar rise has run its course, says Standard Chartered
Asian bank saw signs of potential dollar strength in late May, landing it at the top of the one-month forecast rankings
Time for a single reserve currency is over, warns Gulliver
HSBC chief executive expects renminbi to become a reserve currency within 15 years and shares the bank’s outlook for the Chinese currency
Paul Thirlwall quits BarCap for HSBC
Barclays Capital loses its head of FX short-dated exotics
Ex-BarCap Wise to join Credit Suisse
Danny Wise will start as global head of FX spot trading in August
Commerzbank hires Chauval and Portlock in Singapore
Chauval joins from ANZ, Portlock from UBS, amid string of Asian hires
BAML to become clearing broker on FXall Order Book
Partnership answers client demand for direct access to Order Book ECN
Three CCPs per asset class optimal, say market structure experts
IntercontinentalExchange representative declines to comment on the possibility it will compete with CME and LCH.Clearnet in FX clearing
Cudmore out of Nomura
FX salesperson expected to join Commerzbank
Ex-BarCap Mosseri-Marlio joins UBS
FX sales head left Barclays Capital in London in January
Moorhouse joins FXall from Thomson Reuters
Will focus on EMEA sales for the active trading business
Crédit Agricole’s euro view turns from bull to bear
French bank accurately predicted euro would not plummet over the past month, but turns bearish over the next year
Spotlight on: Tod Van Name, Bloomberg
Bloomberg’s global head of foreign exchange talks to Chiara Albanese about the company’s progress since it entered the FX market in 2000, and how it is preparing for regulatory change and the advent of Sefs
Kx Systems targets FX participants with database technology
Client talks of the importance of thorough data cleansing and analysis in an environment of increasing FX volumes and tougher regulation
King to co-head spot trading at RBC
Ex-BAML spot trader will co-head RBC’s spot desk, reporting to Ed Monaghan
Revolving doors in Credit Suisse sales
Gary Dhami joins Swiss bank as Graeme Henderson departs