BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas loses head of insurance and pensions
Mark Azzopardi, London-based head of insurance and pensions at BNP Paribas, has left the bank for a role with asset manager AllianceBernstein.
Best in Japan - BNP Paribas
Structured Products Asia Awards 2008
Bank monoline exposures creep up in second quarter
Second-quarter results yielded further markdowns at major dealers due to the increasing counterparty risk posed by monoline insurers.
BNP adds Zuberi to US structured credit desk
BNP Paribas has appointed Adnan Zuberi as a director on the structured credit desk in New York. He reports to Jerome Wong, the head of credit structuring for the Americas.
BNP Paribas Private Bank links to create Anglo-Dutch wealth manager
BNP Paribas Private Bank (BNP PPB) and Insinger de Beaufort Holdings have concluded a strategic partnership which will see BNP acquire, for €60 million, a 35% interest in Insinger de Beaufort Holding. In parallel, BNP PPB will combine Nachenius Tjeenk,…
BNP Paribas reshuffles investment bank
BNP Paribas has reorganised its commercial and investment banking arm to concentrate more attention on its valued major clients.
Losing lustre
Structured products
Derivatives Summit: Investors should heed lessons of crisis, summit told
Investors should heed the lessons of the credit crunch by changing the products they invest in, said senior BNP Paribas bankers speaking at Risk ’s 2008 Derivatives Summit in London.
BNP Paribas to purchase Bank of America prime brokerage arm
BNP Paribas is to acquire the equity prime brokerage business of Bank of America (BoA) for a reported $300 million, the two banks have announced. Subject to regulatory approval, the deal will be finalised in the second half of 2008.
Jon Gregory quits Barclays Capital
Jon Gregory, London-based global head of credit quantitative analytics at Barclays Capital, is leaving the firm today.
BNP Paribas appoints commodity derivatives head in Asia
Frederic Hervouet has been appointed head of commodity investor derivatives for Asia at BNP Paribas, reporting to Lionel Semonin, global head of commodity investor derivatives.
BNP in trading shake-up
BNP Paribas has moved its global head of interest rate and foreign exchange trading, Guillaume Amblard, to a new position as global head of fixed-income trading.
BNP Paribas expands in London fund derivatives sales
BNP Paribas has appointed two salespeople to its fund derivatives sales team within its equities and derivatives division in London.
BNP Paribas rejigs CLO team, bolsters CDOs
BNP Paribas is understood to be reviewing its collateralised debt obligation (CDO) activities, with a particular focus on the cash side of the business.
BNP names first European equity derivatives flow sales head
BNP Paribas has named Nick Tranter as its London-based head of European equity derivatives flow sales, a newly created role.
Structured Products House of the Year - BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2008
Asia Risk interdealer survey 2007: Dealers
Deutsche dethroned
Dresdner hit by credit crisis, but BNP sails through
Dresdner Bank, the banking arm of the German insurance group Allianz, has seen a sharp drop in income in the wake of the summer's upheavals, but BNP Paribas has been able to avoid the worst of the damage.
Short iTraxx funds begin trading
Three exchange-traded funds (ETFs) based on the total return of short European credit derivatives index positions begin trading this week.
Setting the scene
Scenario analysis is often used to plug the gaps that conventional data can't fill. But it might have more to offer. Duncan Wood investigates
BNP and Grosvenor close first Italian property derivatives deal
BNP Paribas has closed the first Italian property derivatives deal with the UK property company Grosvenor.
BNP Paribas appoints new head of ABS correlation trading
BNP Paribas has appointed Peter Nowell as head of asset-backed security (ABS) correlation trading within fixed income, as of October 17.