BNP Paribas has strengthened its UK foreign exchange sales team with the hire of Richard Knight from Crédit Agricole IndoSuez.

Knight is joining the French bank as head of UK institutional foreign exchange sales, within the global fixed income group. He will be based in London and report to Ligia Torres, global head of foreign exchange sales. At Crédit Agricole IndoSuez he headed institutional forex sales for four years. Before that he was at Barclays for nine years.