Derivs - People and Markets

Barclays has expanded its financial institutions staff in Asia with the hiring of relationship directors Sayoko Kozakai, formerly with Citibank, for Japan and Patrick Leung, most recently with National Australia Bank, for Greater China.

Wolfgang Hammes is said to have left as co-head of European financial institution investment banking at Deutsche Bank for personal reasons.

Hartford Financial Services is looking to sell its broker-dealer business after shutting its annuity operations.

UBS has named Andrea Orcel as co-head of its investment bank together with Carsten Kengeter.

Neil Rogan is stepping down as global head of equities at Henderson Global Investors, and will be succeeded by Matthew Beesley, who joins the firm from Trinity Street Asset Management next month.

Paul Marchington, the ex-co-head of delta one at Nomura, has joined UBS as head of Europe, the Middle East and Africa synthetic equity sales in London.

Philip Ha, a secondary collateralized loan obligation and collateralized debt obligation trader at Goldman Sachs in New York, and Kelly Maier, a v.p. in high yield credit trading in London, have left the firm.

JPMorgan has reduced the size of its equities trading desk by roughly 5%, including the departure of William Gulya, an equity-derivatives salesman in emerging markets.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has named Jason Cox and James Fleming as co-heads of global capital markets for the Asia-Pacific.

Eurex has announced that it will launch interest rate futures based on the notional long-term bonds issued by the French government on April 16.

India’s HDFC Bank has named Donald D’Souza as head of equity capital markets.

Russia’s Otkritie Capital has hired Michael Workman as head of capital income.