David Steck, from Deutsche Bank, heads foreign exchange.
NEW YORK TIMES Nomura Names 2 New Executives | The Japanese firm appointed a new head of fixed income for Asia excluding Japan, and a new global head of foreign exchange, reflecting its renewed focus on those businesses, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The former chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters financial risk division, Brittan previously worked as the former head of foreign exchange at Bloomberg and as the former chief of Google Finance before founding Crux.
He had been head of foreign exchange trading for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
1.39pm GMT Citigroup's global head of foreign exchange Anil Prasad is to leave the bank, according to Reuters.
"The question for us is – where are you going to locate, say, your next global head of foreign exchange?
Head of foreign exchange at HSBC UK, Oliver Cook, described how spending a year abroad whilst at university has become more and more popular amongst students.
In its place, the firm was playing host to dinners in New York, Wednesday and last night, according to David Puth, the global head of foreign exchange and commodities.
Johnson, 50, who was to become head of foreign exchange and commodities of HSBC's US operations, has surrendered his passport.
"The dollar's decline is just the continuation of an ongoing trend," said Michael Rosenberg, head of foreign exchange strategy at Deutsche Bank in New York.
