Alex Barrett, who ran Asia-Pacific regional FX sales for Deutsche Bank from Hong Kong, has relocated to the bank’s headquarters in Frankfurt. Barrett takes up a new position as head of FX sales for Germany. He will be using his derivatives background to enhance the local effort, says an official. Barrett now reports locally to […]

Ken Gettinger, global FX manager for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, says now that the New York team has been operational for a year, he is close to announcing a new manager to build a London team. Separately, in New York, chief dealer Steve Jury has left the investment bank to pursue other interests, say sources. […]

NatWest Global Financial Markets bolstered its derivatives team in London and New York with two hires from JP Morgan. Jeremy Gelber joins the currency options desk the City, while Steve McCaughly joins the New York desk. They report to Luke Ding and Tim Carrington in London. In another JP Morgan hire, NatWest has added Lauren […]

Less than a year after hiring a team from UBS to start a trading operation in Zurich, Republic National Bank of New York (which is currently in the midst of a merger with HSBC) has closed shop and shifted trading to London. According to a spokesperson, all the traders have been let go. Although the […]

Albert Hoyle joined Standard Chartered Bank in London last quarter as head of spot trading for the bank. Prior to joining StanChart, Hoyle was the global FX manager for NationsBank prior to that bank’s merger with BankAmerica.

Nick Slater, previously with Nomura International in London, joined BP International’s London treasury team as chief dealer. He reports to Stephen Nussey, who heads the global forex operation for BP.  

Bass International has hired Lee Miles as its new assistant manager in London. Miles, who joined June 1, was most recently at Peugot in Coventry. He reports to treasury manager Jerry Pettit.

According to sources in London, Banca Commerciale Italiana (BCI) has hired a team of a dozen dealers, including treasurer Eugenio Namor from San Paolo Bank. Namor could not be reached by press time. These sources say San Paolo has relocated its forex trading to its headquarters in Turin.

Noel Eichbaum, director and head of Asia-Pacific regional money markets for Credit Suisse First Boston, has relocated to Tokyo from Singapore. The move caps an effort begun nearly 18-months ago to consolidate the bank’s regional money markets business in Tokyo. The bank is keeping a sales presence in Singapore and Hong Kong, but trading has […]

David Reich, formerly the National Australia Bank’s spot and options manager in New York, joined Bank Julius Baer in late May, sources say.