FX people moves: Citi Tokyo hires ex-Goldmanite

Jo Narita joined Citi Tokyo as head of FX trading at the beginning of the week.

Jo Narita joined Citi Tokyo as head of FX trading at the beginning of the week.

Narita had been at Goldman Tokyo for the last eight years. An internal memo, seen by theweeklyFiX makes it clear that Citi believes the hire is a big one because Narita has “…unique market-making and risk management skills that have led him to be regarded as one of the pre-eminent traders in FX, not only in Japan but globally.”

Citi certainly has been making a big push into the Japanese FX market, they have made six hires in sales, structuring and e-commerce in the last few months to our knowledge.

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