Derivs - Equity

Citadel Securities has hired three senior equity derivatives salesmen in New York. Each joined earlier this month in a new role reporting to James Boyle and Brad Kurtzman, co-heads of equity derivatives trading.

Joseph Bryan, a senior index options trader covering the DAX at Morgan Stanley in London, has left the firm and is tipped for a similar role at UBS.

David Herzberg, global head of equity derivatives at JPMorgan in London, left the firm this morning.

Deutsche Bank has named Rob Ebert, head of institutional equity sales in the Americas, to the same role covering Asia ex-Japan out of Hong Kong.

Chris Lee, head of equity risk management product intermediary sales for UBS in Hong Kong, left the firm Monday.

Roger Hirst, a senior equity derivatives flow salesman at Barclays Capital in London, has left the firm, and is expected to land at Deutsche Bank over the next few weeks, according to an official aware of his plans.

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.

Barclays’ private banking arm Barclays Wealth is reportedly looking to launch an automatic quotation system for a number of flow derivatives products, including accumulators, targeting clients in Asia.

Jerome Bussiere, a former managing director in equity derivatives trading at Dresdner Kleinwort in London, has joined HSBC in a new role trading commodities.

Investment consultancy Mercer is talking to pension fund trustees it advises about bringing derivatives into their investment portfolios.

HSBC has hired Chi-Sun Chui as a senior director in equity derivatives flow trading in Hong Kong.

Laurence Black, head of custom indices at Royal Bank of Scotland in London, left the firm a few days ago and is reportedly heading to Barclays Capital in a similar role.