People: UBS beefs up US equity derivatives team

Americas EQD business gets new head and new head of sales; Higgins joins RBS as head of European fixed income; Nomura adds staff across Asia; four equity flow hires at SG CIB

Roger Naylor, UBS

UBS has hired Dushyant Chadha as head of its Americas equity derivatives business and Jason Hedberg as head of Americas equity derivatives sales.

Chadha was previously global head of equity derivatives trading risk and strategy at Deutsche Bank. He joined the German bank in 2009 as head of Americas equity derivatives trading after a spell at Citi, where he was a managing director.

Hedberg was hired from Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking, where he had been head of equity derivatives