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Merill Lynch hires for European derivatives sales

Merrill Lynch has made two new hires for its derivatives sales force in Europe. Robert Machin joins as a director of interest rate derivatives, and Konstantin Krebs joins as a senior vice-president, marketing credit derivatives, interest rate derivatives…

SuperDerivatives adds deal capture facility

SuperDerivatives, a UK-based online foreign exchange pricing firm, has added a deal capture facility linking its currency options pricing service to back-office risk management systems. SuperDerivatives said the feature has been added due to client…

Malaysia to launch bond futures contract

Malaysia Derivatives Exchange (MDEX) has announced that it will launch a five-year government bond futures contract at the end of March, the first such contract to be issued in Malaysia.

DrkW boosts data services with PFS deal

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank, has signed a licensing agreement with PFS Trader Tools to use its DS2000 gateway for real-time data dissemination from its London, Frankfurt, Singapore and New York…

HKEx cuts derivatives fees in competitiveness drive

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has proposed a reduction in fees for its listed derivatives products, as part of a drive to improve the competitiveness of the exchange and attract greater numbers of overseas investors.

Merrill Lynch snags two from SG in Asia

Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) has snatched two derivatives specialists from SG Securities Global Equities, in a move to strengthen its position in the region's equity derivatives markets, according to the bank.

OCC says derivatives revenues, notionals down

US commercial banks’ revenues from derivatives fell by $805 million, to $2.65 billion, from the third to the fourth quarters of 2001, according to figures released yesterday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

Kiodex secures second round of financing

Kiodex, a New York-based provider of Web-based energy risk management solutions, has secured an additional $10 million in financing from Warburg Pincus, the global private equity firm. The firm originally invested $15 million in April 2001. It plans to…

Refco signs up TradeTrac for forex

Refco, the world's largest non-bank futures commission merchant, has signed up TradeTrac for its foreign exchange activities. TradeTrac provides front-, middle- and back-office risk management services, and was developed by risk technology firms…

BNL plans weather desk for Italy

Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) is planning to set up a weather derivatives desk, which could add to the recent thrust of new players in the weather risk market. BNL hopes to establish the desk, specifically for the Italian market, by the…

Overmars to head ABN financial markets

Piero Overmars has stepped up from his role as ABN Amro’s head of global financial markets in Japan, to become the Dutch bank’s global head of global financial markets, based in Amsterdam. He replaces Nils Lorenzen, who has resigned for personal reasons…

Citibank appoints head of structuring for Asia-Pacific

Citibank has named Rodrigo Zorrilla as head of structuring and corporate sales for Asia-Pacific, reporting to Paco Ybarra, head of financial markets for Citibank Asia-Pacific. He will be responsible for the development and structuring of Citibank's Asian…

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