Former Icap equity traders join rival banks

UBS and UniCredit have hired traders from the interdealer broker's defunct equities arm

Swiss bank UBS and Italian bank UniCredit have appointed highly rated sales traders who worked at the defunct Icap equities business as that firm’s former brokers continue to find new homes at investment banks.

Paul Corbett, who joined Icap in May 2008 after seven years with Citigroup, is set to join UBS in mid-August as a senior sales trader focused on UK clients.

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