Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, has appointed Mohamed Hassan as executive director of hedge fund and , with broad responsibility for derivative execution, advisory and trade idea generation across the firm’s hedge fund audience.
In his new position, Hassan will implement a global client strategy in FX and strengthen the , based out of London. He has been in the foreign exchange market for nearly 15 years and was most recently at Mirexa Capital in New York where he served as head of FX desk in the Americas.
A raft of departures from Nomura’s FX team
Prior to that, Mohamed worked at Standard Chartered bank in New York in multiple FX-focused roles for over eight years. He originally joined the lender in 2005 in the desk tasked with FX, rates and commodity derivative hedging.
In 2007, Hassan relocated to Singapore to focus on emerging markets of EM FX volatility, NDF’s, and EM rates at the same time when the bank set out to expand its Asia’s FX coverage. He was promoted in 2010 to director of investor sales of Americas, a position he held for three years until he left in 2013.
Nomura said earlier it would cut $1 billion in costs from and shut more than 30 of its 156 domestic retail branches. As part of this plans, the company has already announced it will at its troubled European business and signaled that more were on the way as it aims to reduce costs at across its EMEA region by 50 percent.
then, Nomura has seen a raft of departures from its FX team to rivals over the past few months, most notably to US investment banks. This included State Street bringing in Nomura’s Harry Xu as a vice-president for foreign exchange in Asia.
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