Lunchtime Links: Barclays Capital wants Swiss FX traders!

Good news for anyone who wants to work for Bob Diamond, but had feared he was restricting recruitment to Asia Pac: things are afoot in Switzerland too.

The Wall Street Journal has picked up on a Handelsblatt story from Wednesday, which said BarCap's looking for 'dozens' of Swiss currency traders as part of an attempt to take on UBS and Credit Suisse, who currently dominate Swiss currency trading.

Less promisingly, the Journal says there's a possibility that those traders could be transferred internally, and that 'dozens' sounds like a bit of an exaggeration.

Nomura's lost two more senior ex-Lehman bankers. (Wall Street Journal)

UK banks will be obliged to curb their bonus enthusiasm next year too. (Telegraph)

BNP Paribas will lose traders if it reduces their pay. (Businessweek)

Macquarie wants to hire US bankers to service mid-sized companies. (Bloomberg)

Now China's introduced bonus curbs too. (DealBook)

Slow but steady exodus of Goldman bankers in China. (Alphaville)

Ex-Goldman man turns arch-regulator. (DealBook)

Goldman guilty of offering inane advice to small businesses. (Huffington Post)

Gordon Brown's going off the Robin Hood tax. (FT)

When Reifler was not commuting by helicopter, a driver took him into Manhattan in a custom-fitted SUV with a trading screen and seats that reclined for sleeping. (Reuters)

Superyachts are suddenly popular. (Wealth Bulletin)