(Adds Nomura expansion in U.S. in fourth paragraph.)
By Catarina Saraiva and Fabio Alves
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Tony Volpon joined Nomura
Securities International Inc., the U.S. unit of Japan’s biggest
securities firm, as an economist and currency and interest-rates
strategist for Latin America.
Volpon left Standard Chartered Plc., a firm he started at
in June, to take the job at Nomura in New York, according to a
Nomura spokesman. Prior to that, Volpon was chief strategist in
Sao Paulo for CM Capital Markets.
The hiring is a part of a push by Nomura to expand its
emerging-market operations, according to the Nomura spokesman,
who declined to be identified in accordance with company policy.
Nomura plans to hire about 70 employees to expand in fixed
income, bringing its total staff to about 200 employees in U.S.
fixed income by the end of March from 130 now, Shigesuke
Kashiwagi, chief executive officer of Nomura’s Americas
division, said in a Sept. 10 interview. The business will focus
on rates, credit, foreign exchange and securitized products.
Nomura, which was named a primary dealer by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York in July, has about 900 employees in the
U.S., including 200 in equities.
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