By Steve Slater
LONDON, Nov 18 (IFR) - Barclays said it has made six seniorhires in its emerging markets business and moved more than 10people internally as part of a push to build up its EM rates andforeign exchange businesses.
Tunc Buyuksolak has joined the bank from Royal Bank ofScotland as head of EM FX spot trading for EMEA, according to aninternal memo seen by IFR.
The memo said Paulo Agostini also joined last week in Londonas head of EM rates trading for EMEA, after 16 years at DeutscheBank.
Ben Hamdani joined the bank last month in London as adirector in EM FX options after 13 years at RBS and Josh Lujoined this week as a non-deliverable forwards trader inSingapore after six years at HSBC.
Pascal Marguier is joining the bank on December 5 as head ofCEE derivatives trading after six years at Societe Generale, thememo said.
Juan Badia also joined to lead its rates trading group inMexico City after 10 years at JP Morgan.
The memo said the bank was building its EM rates and EM FXbusinesses as they were areas "where we believe we cansignificantly grow revenue" as investors focus on emergingmarkets for trading opportunities.
In addition to the new hires, the memo said Gabriel Oyamadahad relocated to New York from Sao Paulo to trade EM spot.
More than 10 other staff had joined the EM rates and FX teamor moved internally across sales and trading, the memo said.
The memo was sent by Anthony DeMartino, head of EM macrotrading for Americas and Europe, James Hassett, head of FXtrading in Europe and Kilian Murray, head of macro trading inAsia-Pacific. (Reporting by Steve Slater; Editing by Ian Edmondson)