People moves

We’ve had to go out on a limb this week, as it seems a lot of banks have suddenly got all anal about their hiring and firing and declined to confirm just who is coming and who is going. We’d prefer it, obviously, if we could be 100% sure that all the moves mentioned below have actually happened. We’re confident they have, but without our good friends at the banks playing ball, there is just an element of doubt.

I work for a larger securities firm. Now f&*k off

HVB continues hiring spree

Full marks to HVB, part of the UniCredit markets and investment bank, for confirming it has hired Simon Eagle from Bank of America. The bank is clearly beefing up its FX operations and the much-travelled Eagle will join it to run FX derivative sales

Commerz rumoured to have lost one but gained two

It is rumoured that John Juer has left Calyon, where he was an FX quant, and headed off to Commerzbank.