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Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown hires investment-grade bond traders
Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, the US investment banking arm of Deutsche Bank, has added to its integrated credit trading group by hiring Michael Wheeler and Alex Marx as senior investment-grade bond traders.
Globalisation and equity index exposure
Does the global presence of large multinational companies diminish the diversification effect inequity portfolios? Gary Robinson argues that this is indeed the case, and suggests a remedy
New disclosure rule boosts pension risks
New UK accounting rule FRS 17 will force companies to disclose pensions liabilities on corporate balance sheets. The risk management issues are wide-ranging, and experts have few easy answers. Furthermore, the new rule could soon be adopted in a number…
Deutsche Bank hires chairman of global markets, Asia-Pacific
Deutsche Bank has named Jonathan Paul as chairman of global markets, Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Paul will be responsible for the bank's global markets business in Asia, Japan, and Australia, including its derivatives operations.
Deutsche goes extra mile to underwrite Pimco CDO
Deutsche Bank has agreed to allow Pacific Investment Management Company (Pimco) full and unfettered access to its proprietary portfolio of corporate loans to secure the underwriting mandate for Pimco’s forthcoming Euro-denominated CDO.
Iskander to head OTC structuring at Deutsche
Deutsche Bank has hired Michel Iskander to head its over-the-counter derivatives structuring business. He will manage a team of about 10 people in the newly created position. He will report to Toshio Okumura, head of the structured products group, and be…
Pricing default baskets
Nicholas Dunbar, Risk’s technical editor, introduces the first in a new series of technical papers written by quants at Deutsche Bank.“Default correlation has been one of the hottest topics in credit derivatives over the past year. So it is a pleasure to…
ABN Amro expands forex strategy team
Dutch bank ABN Amro is expanding its London foreign exchange strategy team by hiring Aziz McMahon, formerly a treasury economist with Ulster Bank, as a forex strategist.
Deutsche and Fleet unveil $40 billion OTC deal
Deutsche Bank and the US' FleetBoston Financial have revealed one of the largest over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives deals in history. The portfolio deal, with a notional value of about $40 billion, was executed in June to protect Fleet from short-term US…
Deutsche boosts US swaps sales effort
Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, the US investment banking arm of Germany's Deutsche Bank, has lured Steve Beck from internet mortgage bond trading platform, Vertical Crossings, to become a senior salesman offering interest rate swaps and bonds in the US.
Deutsche enhances online risk system
Deutsche Bank has added two major components to its DBIQ online analysis system that will allow analysis of structural risks and present value-at-risk (VAR) analysis through full Monte Carlo simulation. The DBIQ portfolio system and DBIQ risk system…
Basel acts on private equity losses
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has issued a proposal for determining the capital reserves for bank equity exposures. It promises to be as controversial as the other aspects of the Basel II capital Accord.
Justifying granularity
The granularity adjustment for the IRB approach to credit risk contained in Basel II is controversial. Some banks say it is too simplistic. Regulators disagree.
Documentation dilemmas
Concerns over credit event definitions and the Basel Committee’s ‘ w ’ capital charge on credit mitigation instruments will not be easily resolved.
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