Derivs - People and Markets

Chee Chen Poh, a managing director in fixed income trading at BNP Paribas in Singapore, left the firm last week.

Paul Thind, head of custom indices Asia Pacific at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong, left the firm last month.

Bill Beller, head of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa equity derivatives flow trading at UniCredit in London, has left the firm and is set to join Sberbank as head of equity options trading in Moscow. Sberbank is Russia’s largest commercial bank

Morgan Stanley has lost two more from its fx sales and trading desk in Singapore and Hong Kong, with Zachary Heng and Supat Julsiri leaving recently.

Cyril Cannamela, an ex-managing director in exotic equity derivative trading at Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong, has joined Royal Bank of Canada in a similar role, also in Hong Kong.

Proposed amendments to the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act could give the regulator greater powers to deal with failed financial institutions.

ETF Securities has hired Frank Spiteri, a former senior equity derivatives trader at KBC Financial Products, as head of retail distribution.

Daniel Malone, head of U.S. interest rate sales at Barclays in New York, has left the firm.

Thomas Haskins, head of emerging market and fx sales at Morgan Stanley in New York, has left the firm.

The Securities Association of China, a Beijing-based capital markets self-regulatory organization, is creating a standard master agreement in preparation for the launch of China’s first onshore OTC equity derivative market (DI, 9/3).

Eli Vichman, the former head of emerging markets equity derivatives trading at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London, has joined London hedge fund Holland Park Capital.

Nick Strain, managing director and head of the fx emerging market sales desk at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, has left the firm.