Barclays appoints global head of foreign exchange options

Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank, has hired Despina Pantopoulou as a managing director and global head of forex options with immediate effect.

Based in London, Pantopoulou will report to Ivan Ritossa, Barclays Capital's global head of FX and assume responsibility for boosting the UK bank's currency options capability.

Ritossa said Pantopoulou has significant option pricing and risk management experience within scaled forex business units. She joins Barclays from Merrill Lynch in London, where she was global head of currency options trading.

Prior to that, she was co-global head of currency option trading at NatWest - now part of Royal Bank of Scotland Group - where she began her career.

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