Derivs - People and Markets

Citi Asia Pacific has hired an equity derivatives expert to become the firm’s chief risk officer.

Natixis Capital Markets is seeking to hire a mid-level fund derivatives official in New York.

BlueCrest Capital Management is looking to recruit four traders across its credit derivatives business.

Jean-Paul Brasier, has joined Nomura in Hong Kong, as head of head of its equity derivatives flow business.

Royal Bank of Scotland wants to grow its combined structured credit and fund derivatives team in the U.S. to six from four with the addition of two senior officials in structured credit.

UBS’ Anders Haagen, a derivatives flow credit trader has left the firm.

Joseph Elmlinger, managing director and global head of equity derivatives at Citigroup, left the bank Aug. 8 (DWO, 8/8) amid a reshuffling of senior posts and the creation of a new unit.

Standard Chartered has made a raft of senior equity hires as it builds an Asian equity unit from scratch, including its first foray into equity derivatives.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is setting up an Asia-focused derivatives-related corporate financing and risk solutions team to be based in Hong Kong.

Edouard Huntziger has been let go from his role as v.p. of credit hybrids and exotics at JP Morgan in Hong Kong.

Adam Green, the former co-head of North American equity structured investments marketing at JPMorgan, has rejoined the bank in its wealth management group.

Anil Babbar, the former Americas head of fund derivatives at Morgan Stanley, is preparing to launch a long/short credit hedge fund in January with the firm’s former head of emerging markets structured credit trading, Andrey Krakovsky.