DrKW appoints new global head of equity-linked origination

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the US investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank, has appointed Ken Robbins as a managing director and global head of equity-linked origination.

Robbins was most recently co-head of equity capital markets for Australasia at Credit Suisse First Boston. He will be based in London and report to John St John, global head of capital markets.

The bank has also appointed Domenico Iuliano as director and senior bond trader in the euro flow trading team in Frankfurt. He will have market-making responsibilities for Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and joins DrKW from French bank Société Générale, where he worked as an arbitrage trader in European