Equity market round-up: People moves

Merrill Lynch has hired Michael Pringle as managing director and head of flow derivatives and equity risk for the EMEA region. Pringle joins from Credit Suisse where he spent the past four years in a number of senior roles in derivatives trading. Before joining Credit Suisse, Pringle was a derivatives trader at Morgan Stanley for seven years.

John Fildes, previously head of equity marketing for Asia at Morgan Stanley, has joined electronic agency broker Instinet as head of its Hong Kong office.