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  • Retail trading specialist Gain Capital Holdings has appointed Henry Lyons as its chief financial officer. This is a new role at the company and Lyons will report to Glenn Stevens, Gain’s chief executive. In addition, Lyons will become a standing member of the company’s executive management team. As CFO, he will be responsible for financial accounting and reporting, strategic business planning and forecasting, corporate development and investor relations activities for Gain and its subsidiaries.
  • Tom Roche has quit his role as managing director, global head of e-commerce and retail products group, at Standard Chartered and is believed to be off to a headhunting company in which he has an equity stake. Recruitment sources wonder if there isn’t a touch of ‘gamekeeper turned poacher’ about it.
  • Russell Francis has been promoted to head of corporate FX sales to Fortune 500 clients at Citi NY. He replaces Deb Connelly, who has apparently returned to Australia.
  • Martina Doherty, director of corporate marketing at FXall, has been lured back to Dublin to join market newcomers Squared Financial Services. The experienced Doherty, who spent five years at Dresdner before joining FXall, will start her new role on April 14. Until then, she remains plugging away at FXall (Groan – Sub-ed.) .
  • Perhaps signalling its intention to become more than a niche player, ICE Futures US has hired the extremely experienced Ray McKenzie as vice-president, responsible for marketing its Russell Index, soft commodity and currency products.
  • First Avenue Partners, a hedge fund advisory firm based in New York and London, is raising money for a new multi-strategy fund of hedge funds investment vehicle that will focus on Brazilian managers. The fund, which will be managed by Brazilian investment boutique Arsenal Investimentos, plans to raise $300 million.
  • Accusations of sharp practice are flying as the loan market struggles to deal with its problems.
  • One area of increased interest in the wake of the credit crunch is traditional trade financing products such as letters of credit (LC). In recent years, trading has increasingly moved to open account rather than LC in a bid to lower costs. But Tan Kah Chye, global head of trade finance at Standard Chartered in Singapore, says that as supply chain participants have become cautious about the financial stability of their trading partners they have once again begun to consider LC.
  • Insurance-linked securities offer safety in numbers
  • Last month Euromoney wrote about how the valuations service sector was heating up. Financial data provider Markit subsequently announced a new multi-dealer valuations platform. Chief executive Lance Uggla explains to Alex Chambers how the firm is broadening its offerings from credit to OTC equities.
  • We are engulfed in a tornado of gloom. Wall Street titans and employees alike have seen their share options decimated, pension pots plummet and everyone feels insecure about job security. I’m hearing that investment banks need to cut 20% of their employees to accommodate lower profitability.
  • Far from solving BAA’s financial problems, the CAA’s regulatory review will make life for it even worse.