Hedge funds
BCS Global appoints Richards as director of prime services sales
Andrew Richards will target small- to medium-sized hedge funds
Tariq Haider heads to Drax
Former BAML FX salesman returns to New York for post
Boas Bondesen joins BidFX in Nordic sales
Bondesen spent six years in FX sales at FlexTrade
Citi revamps algos to improve sweep impact predictions
Bank works to make some aggressive strategies more intelligent when handling liquidity and filling orders
Rokos hires new risk chief
Gianluca Squassi is replacing Nick Howard as the $8 billion hedge fund’s CRO
Wall Street vets vie to be BlackRock of crypto
Fund launch uses fundamental analysis to identify value propositions in high-risk industry
JP Morgan rolls out algo workflow tool on Bloomberg App Portal
The integration should make the bank’s Algo Central software and FX trading services more accessible
Hunter Lloyd takes BNY Mellon FX sales director role
The hire complements recent advancements in its FX business
BNP Paribas hires Carly Lam in FX sales
Lam joins New York team, covering real-money clients
Egger joins Jefferies in sales in New York
Shawn Egger moves from FX trading platform FastMatch
Hedge fund giants lead fourth wave of IM candidates
BlueCrest, Capula, Citadel, Millennium and Rokos expected to be in scope for next phase of margin rules
Brexit drama muddies waters for FX options
Traders focus on new dates – and scenarios – after UK criticism of proposed deal
Sucden hires Gillies to head e-FX sales
Kirsty Gillies ran the e-FX sales team at UBS in London for eight years
FlexTrade integrates pre-trade model into EMS
Modelling tool helps users plan trades, cashflow and hedging ahead of time
Agarwal heads to BNP Paribas in sales
Anupama Agarwal will focus on FX hedge fund sales
Societe Generale gains two in institutional FX sales
Neel Mehta and Susan Henschel join New York office
Rossi and Sellwood join Barclays
The two men will work in FX hedge fund sales
Exegy promotes Anderson, hires Faulkner
The firm promotes Robert Anderson and adds John Faulkner to London sales team
Marex Spectron re-enters FX with new platform
After a four-year hiatus, the broker rolls out offering geared at smaller players that large banks find relatively unattractive
Two leave BNP Paribas sales
Hamoodi and Theodorakakos had worked at the French bank since 2012
Venue competition heats up as e-FX volumes plateau, says Greenwich
Following 74% growth in electronically executed FX in 2007-14, volumes flattened for four years
Phil Weisberg joins oneZero’s advisory board
The firm hopes to use his institutional market insight as it seeks new opportunities
Citadel hires Findlay in London
Iain Findlay joins the hedge fund from Citi as an FX options trader
Haider set to exit BAML
Tariq Haider will leave his FX institutional sales role in London