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  • Activity seems to have picked up a bit this week and the fact that EUR/USD has managed to move off 1.55 will no doubt have cheered up many FX players. But for the moment it still looks as if it’s going to be a quiet summer, unless of course that hoary old chestnut called the sub-prime crisis raises its head again or if some other debacle spills over from another market.
  • It’s almost inevitable that a company that has so many rocket scientists on its staff – its founder has a doctorate in superstring theory no less – should seemingly name a product after a well-known sci-fi series.
  • Readers will know that I used to be an Icap shareholder. If I still were, I would be looking to ask the company for greater clarification of a deal it did this week with City Index, a company controlled by the private investment vehicle, IPGL Limited, of Icap’s chief executive, Michael Spencer.
  • Post-trade specialist Logicscope has appointed industry veteran Roland Schilling as a business development executive. Schilling spent a number of years trading spot, as well as working in specialist software and data sales for Bloomberg and Netsys. He reports to John Barber, Logicscope’s recently appointed chief executive.
  • Saxo Bank has appointed two industry specialists to lead newly created functions within the bank designed to expand its IT and service capabilities. Paul Ronan has been hired as head of enterprise architecture; he reports directly to Tobias Straessle, Saxo’s chief operating officer and head of IT and operations. Ronan was previously a partner at Capco, the financial technology and consulting firm.
  • NabCapital, the institutional banking and capital markets division of National Australia Bank, has made three hires to its FX team in London. Craig Davies and Ben Clarkin join the FX institutional sales team and Nick McHale, as reported here two weeks ago, joins the FX spot trading team.
  • The headlines may be all be about how many people it's going to fire but at least there are still employment opportunities at Citi if you are an FX options trader. The bank has recently made five senior-level appointments to the global team, which is run by my former Midland Bank colleague James Bindler. One hire that slipped through the Weekly Fix's net was Patrick Green, who started at the bank in early June as a vice-president in London to trade yen. Green was previously at Merrill Lynch.
  • Well-placed sources say that the highly regarded and likeable Andreas (Andy) Zacharia has been given notice by RBS. Zacharia, who was previously part of the ABN Amro business, moved across into hedge fund sales from a role in business management a few years ago.
  • David O'Connor has joined UniCredit New York from HSBC as an FX salesman. He reports locally to Nick Crawford and to the bank's global head of sales, Kenan Altunis.
  • Standard & Poor's will soon rate exchange-traded funds in the same way it rates individual stocks.