Barclays Names Ivan Ferraroni As Asia Pacific FX Bank Sales Head
July 27 2009 - 9:39PM
Dow Jones News
Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of Barclays Bank
PLC (BARC.LN), Tuesday said it has appointed Ivan Ferraroni as
managing director and head of Asia Pacific foreign exchange bank
sales.
Ivan, who will be based in Singapore, joins Barclays Capital
from Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was head of foreign exchange
sales and trading in Tokyo, Barclays Capital said in a
statement.
Apart from Ivan, Barclays said it has also made other new
appointments in the Asia Pacific foreign exchange team.
Eric Schatz, earlier Barclays Capital's head of real money
foreign exchange sales for the Americas, has relocated from the
firm's New York office to Tokyo to take on the newly- created role
of head of foreign exchange for Japan.
Toshimasa Fujii has joined the firm in Tokyo as a director for
foreign exchange sales. Prior to the appointment, he was head of
Currenex's Japanese business, Barclays said.
Naomi Koyama, director for Merrill Lynch's foreign exchange
sales in Japan will join Barclays Capital next month.
Gaurav Tholia has joined Barclays Capital in Singapore as
vice-president in charge of foreign exchange derivatives sales to
banks and private banks in Asia ex-Japan. He was earlier working
with JP Morgan, the statement said. .
-By P.R. Venkat, Dow Jones Newswires; +65 64154 152;
venkat.pr@dowjones.com