Recruitment: Mine the three months

For some FX traders the prospect of an extended holiday seems to be the deal clincher for switching jobs.

The recent defection of Marcus Browning from Merrill Lynch to Citigroup, where he is to become global head of FX trading, has highlighted the fact that making staff serve a three-month notice period does little to deter them from leaving their jobs [see FX pedallers on an uphill learning curve, Euromoney, March 2006]. Browning has taken a team of four colleagues with him. All have effectively now left Merrill, although they remain on the payroll.

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