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Parry and Park join BAML
Both will work in FX e-commerce
Banks monitor FX options trading following Thomson Reuters withdrawal
Market-makers continue to focus on emergence of new multi-bank options platforms that will enable them to comply with new regulations
Buy side urged to avoid stampede to CCPs
Panel participants encourage buy-side firms to engage with CCPs early to avoid a last-minute rush
Deutsche promotes Hitchon to run Markets Clearing
Roger Naylor to succeed Hitchon as co-head of global prime finance
Integral’s FX Cloud pitches trade repository status
New cloud-based forex platform to be launched as a trade repository to meet Dodd-Frank requirements
Anticipation builds for final Treasury decision
US Treasury reviewing comments on its proposed exemption as market participants expect the decision to be confirmed early next month
Deutsche merges OTC and listed derivatives clearing
Markets Clearing will combine the bank's existing clearing capabilities across FX, rates, credit, commodities and equities
BNP Paribas loses emerging markets strategist
Gruie departure follows that of Redeker and Stannard earlier this year
Dimitri quits BarCap for UBS
FX structuring head will join Swiss bank in Zurich
BarCap’s O’Neill to take time out
Corporate distribution head will take at least six months out of the market
Leuschke quits RBS
UK bank loses its global head of FX sales
BarCap’s Iorio relocates to New York to head US distribution
Iorio replaces Gregg Chow, who will lead real-money FX
Esma inclined to follow US FX exemption, says FSA’s Justham
Senior UK regulator emphasises importance of aligning European regulation of FX with US, but says it is not top of Esma's agenda
Yetsenga to head ANZ FX strategy research
Richard Yetsenga to head ANZ's global FX strategy research team
Connors to head FX sales at BAML
Position became vacant after Vinit Sahni, head of rates and currencies sales for EMEA and global head of hedge fund and central bank sales, took sabbatical leave
Thomson Reuters to quit FX options matching business
Resources will be diverted to Eikon platform upgrade, with new trade capabilities to be offered in FX options
Econ in favour of FX exemption
European committee favours US plans to exempt currency derivatives from clearing requirement
Portlock head of Asia spot FX at Commerzbank
He had recently left UBS, where he was executive director in spot foreign exchange trading
Smith joins CIBC as executive director from BaML
Quentin Smith moves from BaML to CIBC in executive director role
Wee new head of e-sales at Standard Chartered
At Deutsche Bank she has been replaced by David Wilkins, new head of electronic foreign exchange sales for Asia
Saxo targets new traders with ForexTrading.com
Danish bank says it wants to cater for 'more self-driven' clients
Social FX trading grows, brings more transparency to retail market
After the success of its 'trade leaders' programme, Currensee looks with interest at other asset classes