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BNP Paribas takes Credit Suisse equity derivatives team
BNP Paribas has poached a three-strong equity derivatives sales team from Credit Suisse in Frankfurt.
SG adds to its European CDO team
Société Générale has recruited Peter Melichar as vice-president in charge of collateralised debt obligation origination and structuring, based in London.
Dresdner puts focus on public sector
Dresdner Kleinwort has named a new head of global public-sector activities, as part of a push into financing, derivatives and capital market work in the sector.
BNP Paribas adds two to strategic equity solutions
BNP Paribas has hired Christopher Loudon and Kimberlee Brody, as director and vice-president respectively, to its strategic equity solutions group within the bank’s equities and derivatives business in New York. Both report to Janet Kim, head of…
Sebton leaves Isda for JP Morgan
Emmanuelle Sebton, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s head of risk management, has left to join JP Morgan.
BGC names Sutton as head of US rate swaps
US interdealer broker BGC has promoted Rob Sutton, formerly head of trading at the broker's Sydney office, to global head of US dollar interest rate swaps, a newly created role.
Citi launches directors' fund with conviction
Citi’s Structured Products team launched, on June 29, its European Directors’ Insight Fund, the second sub-fund launched from its UCITS III fund platform, First Investment International Funds. The new fund is aimed at capturing the outperformance of…
FSA names new chief executive
The UK Financial Services Authority has named Hector Sants as its chief executive, replacing John Tiner, who left the regulator last week.
Lehman adds to EM team
Lehman Brothers has added three new managing directors to its emerging-market teams in London.
BGI adds in Asia
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) appointed three new members to its Asian business at the end of June. Nick Good was appointed head of iShares, Asia-Pacific, responsible for iShares in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Good…
Trade bodies draft structured product guidelines
Five major trade bodies have teamed up to offer a 10-step guide on the types of principles structured product providers and distributors should consider when offering these instruments to retail investors, including high net worth individuals.
BBVA poaches Isla from BarCap
BBVA has hired Lorenzo Isla from Barclays Capital as head of credit derivatives structuring. Isla will be based in Madrid. He joined from Barclays Capital in London, where he was head of structured credit strategy.
Scott Prince joins SkyBridge Capital
Scott Prince, Goldman Sachs’ former head of equity derivatives, has moved to New York-based firm SkyBridge Capital.
Fitch adds to European structured finance emerging markets
Fitch Ratings has appointed Jaime Sanz as a senior director to lead its London-based European structured finance emerging markets team.
Kempen & Co. hires Pontier and Zoutenbier to build structured products business
Kempen, an investment bank in Amsterdam, has hired Koen Zoutenbier from Fortis and Hans Pontier from Rabobank to build a structured products business for its institutional and private investors and its private banking clients at Van Lanschot, which…
Barclays Wealth adds Bansal
Satya Narayan Bansal has joined Barclays Wealth as head of its onshore private banking business in India, moving from ICICI’s Singapore-based private banking business where he was head for South East Asia.
Sempra Energy to partner with Royal Bank of Scotland
Sempra Energy today announced that it will form a joint venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to significantly expand Sempra Energy’s commodity-marketing business.
Fortis nabs Schroders’s Theisinger
Fortis Investments has hired Martin Theisinger as its head of client relationship management for Germany, Austria and Central Europe. Theisnger joins from Schroder Investment Management, where he was a managing director for Germany, Austria and CEE.