ABN Amro has hired seven staff to its foreign exchange group, and transferred three others internally, as part of the bank's bid to strengthen its growing foreign exchange operation.

The bank's Amsterdam operation gains Steen Dybhal from Den Danske Bank in Copenhagen and Scott Richards from AIG in Singapore. Both are G-10 traders. ABN Amro has also moved Murtaza Moulvi to the same team from its local markets foreign exchange trading team in Dubai. Paul Peter joins the Amsterdam local markets team from a similar role in the Dutch bank's Johannesburg office.