People
Joining the bandwagon
Private Banking - Private equity
Performance problems
Private Banking - Hedge funds
Hanging in the balance
Index licensing
Data's destiny
Grid computing
Laying the foundations
Property derivatives
Stepping up surveillance
CFTC chairman Reuben Jeffery talks to Alexander Campbell
Credit market ricochet
The run-up to the March roll of the iTraxx and Dow Jones CDX indexes saw an intense burst of trading activity as spreads widened sharply. Popular index trading strategies fell by the wayside, while new players such as CPDOs entered the market. How did…
Broken joints
Rating Agencies
Lehman poaches Morgan Stanley CDO co-head
Dorothee Fuhrmann is joining Lehman Brothers in May as head of European collateralised debt obligation (CDO) and structured credit syndication.
Risk Talent: 74% of risk personnel are considering job change
A 74% majority of 500 risk-management professionals surveyed by New York-based recruitment agency Risk Talent Associates say they are considering changing jobs in the next two years.
Deutsche appoints head of index strategy group
Deutsche Bank has appointed John Butler as managing director and head of the index strategy group within global rates, effective immediately. He will report to Bhupinder Singh, head of structured rates products, Europe and Asia and be based in London.
ABN appoints head of global commodity finance
Bart Timmermans has succeeded Anushavan Simonyan as head of global commodity finance at ABN Amro, effective May 1, 2007.
Credit Suisse forms new equity products group
Credit Suisse has formed a London-based equity derivatives product management group with Stephane Diederich appointed as head, effective from this week. Diederich will report to Simon Yates, head of global equity derivatives and co-head of European…
Deutsche hires CEEMEA securitisation head
Deutsche Bank has appointed Tim Nicolle as a managing director for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) securitisation. He will join the bank in the second quarter and will report jointly to Jeff Stolz, head of the European…
Winterthur chief leaves Credit Suisse after one month
Leonhard Fischer, Credit Suisse’s chief executive of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has left the bank after formally joining it for one month.
London & Capital creates structured products division
UK investment adviser and fund management company London & Capital has established a new structured products division.
Victory for Sox and PCAOB
US District Court judge dismisses SOX/PCAOBlawsuit