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Obituary: Cian Burke, HSBC veteran
The head of HSBC's securities services passed away at the weekend in a tragic accident
FX lawsuits: the roundup
The number of cases related to conduct in foreign exchange markets has multiplied. Here is our handy guide to developments so far
Nielsen leaves Saxo
Claus Nielsen leaves his position as head of markets at Saxo
Tolat becomes TradAir chief executive
Viral Tolat, former CTO of EBS and Integral, becomes chief executive of the technology firm
BTIG adds Daly to FX team
Brendan Daly joins as a director
Biggs swaps IS Prime for CFH Clearing
Andy Biggs will be responsible for managing the firm’s liquidity suite
Thomas to lead Morgan Stanley’s e-macro sales team
Matt Thomas was previously in Credit Suisse’s FX and rates electronic sales team at Credit Suisse
Mount joins Cryptalgo’s advisory board
The crypto broker and algo provider appoints Ed Mount as chief adviser for trading technologies
TFS-Icap’s Benson retires
Terry Benson exits the FX industry, after a career spanning four decades
Butbaev rejoins Saxo Bank as CEE chief
Vitali Butbaev brings extensive international experience in the financial industry
Haider set to exit BAML
Tariq Haider will leave his FX institutional sales role in London
Broadway taps Evelina Rosenstein as head of Emea sales
Rosenstein joins from FXSpotStream where she handled sales and new business
Middleton joins Mesirow’s UK currency team
As a senior vice-president, Amy Middleton will work on bespoke research initiatives and advise on investment strategies
DoJ indicts another FX trader on price-rigging charge
US says Akshay Aiyer conspired with other New York-based traders at rival banks to fix prices in Ceemea currencies
FX Cartel loses bid to dismiss criminal case
Judge says SFO investigation was a sign the currency traders could be prosecuted somewhere
Citi reshuffles FX options team
Two options traders leave London and a new corporate salesperson arrives; Singapore office gains new options head
Weller joins Saxo Bank as Mena chief
Steve Weller headed the FX business at Sberbank CIB before resigning and taking a break from the industry
360T hires three for senior FX roles
Randy Rupan, Robin Nicholas and Paul Lonsdale join the trading venue
Kim joins Sucden to head Apac e-FX sales
The institutional foreign exchange and derivatives broker boosts its FX sales desk
TP Icap appoints head of institutional services, Americas
New York-based Pieter van Vredenburch takes up the role
Solid FX’s Westerman resigns, Esturi joins
Ujwal Esturi joins the liquidity management team from FastMatch
Holst and Christoffersen join muinmos
Both men will invest in the firm and join its board of the Danish software and onboarding company
Zografos joins FastMatch in sales
Nicholas Zografos takes on sales role at FastMatch New York, swapping BNP Paribas for the trading venue
Bogucki hearing scheduled for May 23
Defence lawyers are set to argue that the charge is time-barred and not applicable to this case