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Barings hires Smart for research role
Barings has named Christopher Smart as the head of the newly created macro and geopolitics research unit
Hadingham promoted at Nomura
Clive Hadingham is now the head of FX sales for northern Europe, having joined the Japanese bank in January
HKEx appoints Laura Cha as chairman of board
Cha will be the first woman to lead the board of the Hong Kong Exchange
Johnson sentenced to two years in prison
Johnson was taken to prison immediately after the hearing, but lawyers are preparing for appeal argument
Kamrath joins crypto-tech company Rubicon
Ray Kamrath was previously the global head of FX at Jefferies
Blanchard switches ANZ for Crédit Agricole
Dominique Blanchard has joined Crédit Agricole as the regional head of the global markets division for Asia-Pacific
Former Wells Fargo FX trading head sues for wrongful termination
Simon Fowles claims he was fired days before he intended to alert regulators of a payment-incentive plan that fostered greed
Irons joins State Street as head of sales for global exchange
Richard Irons brings more than 30 years’ experience in financial services and technology
McDermott to join SocGen as Americas FXPB head
Brian McDermott is set to join Societe Generale on April 23, after resigning from Traiana
Lowe to join State Street as global head of trade services
She will report to Greg Fortuna, global head of GlobalLink Solutions, and David Newns, global head of GlobalLink Execution Services at SSGM
Durrant joins GTX
Henry Durrant leaves Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ for GTX’s liquidity management team
Mike O’Hara joins Nex in buy-side role
O’Hara previously worked at Icap’s Truequote as head of sales
Mark Yallop joins OpenFin
He is appointed as a non-executive board director
Johnson's attorneys seek home confinement
US digs in heels over prison term; family and friends say former trader’s punishment began at his arrest
Calypso taps Bouillard as chief executive
Didier Bouillard joins from Ullink
Saleh joins ADS Securities to run Mena retail FX sales
Nael Saleh joins from GKFX where he was director of operations for Mena
Ross Thalheimer exits 360T
He worked at the company for about five years
Fortex Technologies hires Hendrix
Victor Hendrix will create and lead its newest division, XCloud, a global server grid providing trading infrastructure as a service
StanChart considers adding two members to FX team
It is understood the bank is looking at Haskins from HSBC and Tretola from Nomura
US seeks seven-year minimum prison term for Mark Johnson
Defence disputes whether Cairn Energy suffered a loss as a result of Johnson’s misconduct
IPC appoints new chief executive
Robert Santella will succeed Neil Barua in mid-April
Cboe creates markets division to leverage talent pool
Andy Lowenthal and Bryan Harkins will run the new division
Barker joins Sucden Financial
Darren Barker was previously at RJ O’Brien, which closed its FX business earlier this year
Guganeswaran and Burrell leave Citadel
They worked together at the hedge fund and at Barclays