Nikko Citigroup has recruited market veteran Tony Kay, head of credit derivatives trading at Bank of America in Tokyo, for a senior trading role according to market officials. Yoshito Matsuura, head of credit derivatives at Nikko in Tokyo, declined all comment. Kay was the talk of the credit market when he joined BofA from UBS, where he was the head of non-Japan Asia credit trading, for a compensation package in 2002 that set the bar for the region (DW, 8/19/02). A fluent Japanese speaker, Kay could not be reached by press time. Sal Amery, head of credit derivatives at Bank of America in Hong Kong, to whom Kay reported to, declined comment.
