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ON THE MOVE: Silber to Head FX Sales at Credit Suisse

Traders Magazine Online News, December 12, 2017

John D'Antona Jr.

Score one for Credit Suisse, which has seen mass defections for its ranks over the last several months. The bank lured Dan Silber, a senior fixed income salesman at HSBC, to be its next Head of Foreign Exchange and Emerging Market FX Sales. Silber, who has held various senior positions at HSBC over the course of 14 years since joining as a managing director in 2003, left in late November, according to his Finra broker page. Prior to HSBC, he was a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs an worked in FX sales, head of the FX and Metals Group and was Deputy Head of Global Markets.

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