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Credit Suisse adds four to private banking in Australia
Credit Suisse has enhanced its private banking division in Australia with the addition of four new bankers: Andrew Bird has joined as director, senior relationship manager; Lucinda Bloom as vice-president, structured derivatives; Paul Aliprandi as vice…
Fuhr to cover exchange-traded funds at BGI
Deborah Fuhr, who previously headed exchange-traded funds (ETF) research at Morgan Stanley, has joined asset manager and ETF provider Barclays Global Investors (BGI) in a similar role.
Lehman appoints new fixed-income chiefs
Lehman Brothers has appointed Eric Felder and Hyung Soon Lee as global co-heads of fixed income.
UBS names new global head of fixed income, currencies and commodities
Carsten Kengeter will join UBS in the beginning of 2009 as global head of fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC).
UBS appoints Kengeter global head of FICC
Carsten Kengeter will join UBS in early 2009 as global head of fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC), reporting to Jerker Johansson, Chairman and CEO of UBS Investment Bank. Johansson has been the interim head of the group after André Estevez…
Olympia nabs Goldman Sachs French sales head
Olympia Capital Management has appointed Laurent Dupeyron in the new role of head of sales, marketing and product development. Dupeyron joins the firm from Goldman Sachs, where he was a managing director and had been in charge of sales and marketing of…
Credit Suisse boosts Central Europe sales
Christian Porath has been appointed co-head of Securities Structured Derivatives Sales in Central Europe at Credit Suisse, with a focus on developing coverage of the banking sector in the region, including Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, the Czech…
BNP creates distressed finance group
BNP Paribas has established a new distressed finance group, to be led by Alain Dib. Dib, previously co-head of European high-yield capital markets, will remain in London.
Pimco CEO to retire
Bill Thompson, chief executive of the US asset management firm Pimco, will retire at the end of the year, to be replaced by co-chief executive Mohamed El-Erian.
Icap to broker base metals on the LME
Interdealer broker Icap has launched a London Metals Exchange (LME) base metals broking business.
Lamfalussy committees restate responsibilities
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Standard Chartered names two new global heads
Standard Chartered Bank has named new global heads of structuring, and equity derivatives and commodities.
BarCap names head of equity derivatives flow sales
Barclays Capital has appointed Yannick Mallegol as head of equity derivatives flow sales.
HFM Columbus appoints two managers from Ward Consultancy
HFM Columbus has appointed James Scott and Ross Ibbotson as private client financial consultants in its London office. Both previously worked at Ward Consultancy as private client managers, where Ibbotson has spent eight years. Scott has also worked for…
Stanchart elevates equity derivatives and structuring
Standard Chartered has appointed Vincent Van Pelt as global head of equity derivatives and commodities and Vinod Aachi as global head of structuring. Van Pelt’s new role harnesses equity derivatives and commodities for the first time at the bank, with…
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.
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