Derivs - People and Markets

Samuel Hocking has resigned as global head of prime brokerage sales at BNP Paribas for personal reasons.

The BOX Options Exchange is in the early stages of developing a platform that will allow trading of U.S. stock options after hours, according to Tony McCormick, ceo of the exchange.

Interactive Data has expanded its over-the-counter derivatives valuation service to include independent valuations of credit default swaps and certain CDS indices.

LCH.Clearnet has launched its CDSClear service internationally after having established the service in France in March 2010.

UBS has named Fabio Lisanti as co-head of global debt capital markets, succeeding Rob Joliffe, who has been appointed to a new emerging-markets position.

The Royal Bank of Scotland may pass on the costs associated with ringfencing its retail operations from investment banking to business and retail customers, according Sir Philip Hampton, the bank’s ceo.

Macquarie is said to have closed its Asian interest rates trading desk in Singapore.

Fund managers and commodity pool operators have received additional assurance from U.S. regulators regarding a ‘look-through’ provision that may have precluded them from entering into over-the-counter fx transactions for certain clients post Dodd-Frank implementation.

Michal Pozarzycki, an ex-precious metal options trader at Natixis, is joining ANZ as an fx options trader in London in a new role.

Mariana Capital Markets, the London-based boutique brokerage firm, has hired Manvir Nijhar, the former co-head of equity derivative flow sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Citigroup in London, as a partner, also in London.

Over-the-counter derivatives regulations in the European Union’s European Market Infrastructure Regulation Directive could drive institutions including pension funds from liability-driven investing, according to experts.

The Credit Steering Committee of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association has begun the overhaul of its credit defaults swaps contract, outlining plans to amend it at a meeting Friday.