Derivs - People and Markets

Armins Rusis, head of global securitized and structured credit trading and U.S. credit trading at Morgan Stanley, has joined Markit as an executive v.p. and global co-head of fixed income.

Roger Cohen, head of the index delta 1 desk at Deutsche Bank in London, has exited the firm.

Dallas-based hedge fund Carlson Capital has hired Scott Logie, reportedly to set up a structured credit business.

Matt Renirie, head of equity derivative sales to hedge funds at Merrill Lynch in London, has resigned to join Morgan Stanley.

Stephen Wong, RBS’ managing director in structured credit for Asia Pacific, left the firm in the last week.

Lawyers are poring over proposed Financial Services Authority rules expanding disclosure requirements for equity contracts for difference.

Japanese consumer finance firms—notably Takefuji and Aiful—are continuing to take a pounding in the credit default swap market.

Ray Wepener is set to join Standard Bank’s credit structuring desk next month.

Matt Renirie, Merrill Lynch London’s head of equity derivative sales to hedge funds, has resigned and is expected to join Morgan Stanley, where he will head the European equity derivatives flow sales team.

Ronan Connolly, head of single stock derivative flow trading at Merrill Lynch in London, has left the firm.

Mike Halloran has joined Merrill Lynch to head up the firm’s fixed income currencies and commodities division based in Hong Kong.

Goldman Sachs has hired two senior derivative marketers from Barclays Capital in Tokyo, Hiroyasu Oshima and Yuichiro Shinozaki.