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  • Brian Buchichio, head of investment-grade credit sales to hedge funds at Royal Bank of Scotland in Stamford, Conn., has left and is expected to join Credit Suisse in May.
  • A U.K. High Court judge ruled today that BGC Brokers, along with two of its senior executives in London, poached 10 employees from rival broker Tullett Prebon.
  • The sovereign credit default swap market has been range bound over the last week, a dearth of market-moving events causing a kind of inertia. The Markit SovX Western Europe index, a benchmark for European sovereign credit risk, closed at 68bp on Wednesday, just 2bp wider than the previous week.
  • Hedge funds and corporates were buying short-term calls and puts on the euro/U.S. dollar this week, as sentiment ebbed and flowed over the potential European rescue of Greece and doubts over the U.S. recovery.
  • Overlay Asset Management’s SingleHedge Currency Options Fund bought a one-week call on the euro against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday with a notional of EUR15 million, in anticipation of increased implied volatility ahead of a Federal Open Market Committee rates announcement.
  • Remi Colinmaire, a former equity index trader from Goldman Sachs, and Serge Handjian, former head of equity derivatives trading for Japan at Barclays Capital, have hired a pair of over-the-counter derivatives staffers to their newly launched Singaporean firm RSR Capital Management.