Deutsche Bank has hired Nicholas "Trip" Mestanas as head of Pass-Through trading. Mestanas resigned from Goldman Sachs last week where he was also head of Pass-Through trading. A person close to the situation says he was likely start at Deutsche Bank late last week. Mestanas could not be reached. John Sobol, head of mortgage-backed securities trading at Goldman, and Fred Brettschneider, head of MBS at Deutsche Bank, did not return calls.