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Nomura Scales Back London FX Operations, Terminates Four

October 2, 2014

The FX exodus from London by large banks has continued, with Nomura terminating the contracts of four FX employees, Darren Dempsey, Max Popov, Antoine Berger and John Erratt, effective immediately. This is t...

Standard Chartered Bank Bahrain Taps Shaikha Tareef as CFO

October 2, 2014

Standard Chartered Bank Bahrain, a branch affiliate of global parent Standard Chartered Plc, has appointed Shaikha Tareef as its newest Chief Financial Officer, the first woman CFO in the bank’s history. Sta...

JPMorgan Shuffles FX Heads, Scott Hamilton Succeeding Scott Wacker

October 2, 2014

Scott Wacker, JPMorgan’s Head of FX Sales and Marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has been promoted to the newly forged role of Global Head of e-Commerce Sales and Marketing. Mr. Wacker ...

Nomura Names Kartadjaja Intan as Head Indonesia Investment Banking

September 18, 2014

Japanese Financial Services Group, Nomura, has appointed Kartadjaja Intan as its newest Head of Indonesia Investment Banking in a bid to capitalize on a revamped playing field in Indonesia’s capital markets. ...

HSBC Fortifies APAC FX Team, Adding Peadar Ward as Sales Head

September 18, 2014

HSBC has just appointed Peadar Ward as its newest Head of Institutional FX Sales for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, following a yearlong absence from the market after his departure from Goldman Sachs. In hi...

HSBC Saudi CEO, Walid Khoury Departs, Successor Chosen

September 15, 2014

HSBC’s Saudi Arabian Chief Executive Officer, Walid Khoury, has parted ways with the British banking giant, paving the way for the appointment of new CEO Nabeel Shoaib, who is slated to take over immediately....

Robert Babich Joins FXCM as Director of Proprietary Trading

September 11, 2014

Robert Babich, a senior currencies trader at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), has left the bank and joined NYSE-listed online retail FX broker, FXCM. Based in New York, Babich takes on the role of direc...

HSBC Promotes Andy Grisdale to APAC Commercial Banking Chief

August 26, 2014

HSBC has just named Andy Grisdale as its Chief of Staff, Commercial Banking for Asia-Pacific (APAC), succeeding Sanjay Prakash, who was recently named Head of International, Commercial Banking at HSBC. HSBC ...

HSBC Malaysia Appoints Mahbub Rahman as Head of Commercial Banking

August 25, 2014

HSBC Malaysia has appointed Mahbub Rahman as Head of Commercial Banking in the country, effective from August 1, 2014. Rahman’s new role will put him in charge of Commercial Banking, Corporate Banking, Global...

Societe Generale Restructures Its FX Operations, Leans on Newedge

August 22, 2014

Societe Generale has closed its G-10 forex-trading desk in London, packing up shop and moving its operations to Paris as part of an initiative to reorganize its forex business and partner with the brokerage N...