People moves: UBS sings sweetly about senior appointments in FX

After what seems like a period of fire fighting, UBS appears to be expanding its FX business. Following on from last week’s news that it had hired Simon Wilson-Taylor as managing director and global head of e-commerce, sources say the bank has appointed Chris Vogelgesang as its global co-head of FX.

After what seems like a period of fire fighting, UBS appears to be expanding its FX business. Following on from last week’s news that it had hired Simon Wilson-Taylor as managing director and global head of e-commerce, sources say the bank has appointed Chris Vogelgesang as its global co-head of FX.

Vogelgesang spent 13 years at Merrill Lynch in a number of senior roles before taking a break from the industry. At Merrill Lynch, he was one-time global head of the complex FX options group, before he moved over to head European equity derivatives trading.

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