JP Morgan Private Bank has appointed Alex Keil as head of its EMEA FX and commodities team, recruiting him from Barclays Wealth, where he had overseen FX/treasury sales and distribution for 10 years.

In his new London-based role Keil reports to Soma Rao, head of fixed income, currencies and commodities for EMEA, and Stephen Jury, global head of currencies and commodities.

Before moving over to the wealth management arm of Barclays in 2001, Keil had first worked for Barclays Capital, initially joining the investment banking business as a spot and forward rate agreements trader in 1994.

In other recent hires at JP Morgan’s EMEA private banking business, July saw the addition of Francois-Xavier Cuvelier and Nathalie Conte to the French team. Based in Paris, they joined as private banker and senior investor respectively.

Cuvelier was latterly a private banker at Lazard Frères Gestion, while Conte came from Merrill Lynch, where she was a financial advisor.