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March
Rod Banus, head of futures Asia Pacific at Barclays Capital, has left the bank. Officials in Singapore have not yet been told plans for his replacement.
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Salvatore ‘Chicco’ di Stasi has been appointed global head of corporate equity derivatives at UBS in London. He reports to Matthew Koder, head of global capital markets, and to Jason Barron, global head of equity derivatives.
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The London Metal Exchange (LME) is looking for a new chairman after Donald Brydon handed in his notice in early February.
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The London Metal Exchange will open LME Asia, its first overseas office, in Singapore in April. The office will be headed by its commercial director Liz Milan.
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Kevin Milne has been appointed director of post-trade services at the London Stock Exchange Group.
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Cathryn Lyall has become director of BM&F Bovespa UK. Lyall will oversee the expansion of the London office, which will be its European hub. Before, she worked as an adviser for the exchange.
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Morgan Stanley has hired Alvise Munari as head of equity derivatives sales and financial engineering. He was previously head of multi-asset structured product and flow equity derivatives sales for Bank of America Merrill Lynch within the EMEA region.
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The Integrated Nano-Science and Commodity Exchange (INSCX), has appointed former senior Nasdaq developer Frank Racaneillo as honorary chairman and co-ordinator of US operations.
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The Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) has announced that Richard Mandl had been elected chairman of the board for 2010. He replaces James Neville.
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Francis Lim, chief executive officer and president of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) stepped down on February 15 — two months earlier than scheduled.
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Antoine Shagoury has been appointed chief information officer at the London Stock Exchange — a new position, reporting to Xavier Rolet, the chief executive.
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Two senior US Securities and Exchange Commission staff — Daniel Gallagher and Frederic Firestone — have left to join private law firms.
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David Hobbs has been appointed as chairman of the FTSE Policy Group. The group advises FTSE Group on strategic index and investment-related issues, and reviews the management of all FTSE indices.
Hobbs has been a director of the FTSE Group since July 2006. Before, he worked at UBS.
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London-based interdealer broker Icap has expanded its base metals business by hiring Paul Phillips. He joins from French bank Natixis. Before that he worked for LME broker Amalgamated Metals Trading.
Icap became a Category Two member of the London Metal Exchange in January 2009, offering broking in futures, forwards and options on all LME metals.
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February
The Bahrain Financial Exchange has appointed Salah Al Abdulla as its chief corporate officer ahead of its launch.
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Nicholas Bertrand started on January 1 as head of EDX London, the derivatives arm of the London Stock Exchange. His promotion followed the decision by Lee Betsill to leave the exchange.
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Two senior figures at Creditex, the interdealer broker and trading platform for credit default swaps that Intercontinental Exchange bought in September 2008, are to leave.
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GFI Group, the interdealer broker, has set up a team in New York working on carbon and emissions trading. Known as the GFI Environmental Products Group, it will originate, commercialise and trade secondary market credits.
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Kim Bongsoo took over as chairman and chief executive of the Korea Exchange on December 30, for a fixed three year term.
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Claude Cyr, first vice-president and head of global services and relationships management at Newedge Canada, started on December 21 as senior vice-president of financial markets at the Montreal Exchange.
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Newedge, the derivatives and securities brokerage, has appointed Laurent Cunin as head of its Asia Pacific operations, based in Hong Kong.
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Gauging how many derivatives staff lost their jobs in the financial crisis and what effect that had on pay is not easy. Some segments of the market have remained bullish, however, as Hugo Cox discovers.
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Deutsche Börse Group, operator of Eurex and International Securities Exchange, is bringing in US management consultancy McKinsey for large scale restructuring, a person familiar with the matter has told Futures and Options World.