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Private highs

A consortium of institutional investors bought a 27% stake in HSH Nordbank in August, making it the first part-privatisation of a German Landesbank. Duncan Wood talks to Hartmut Strauss, responsible for risk and finance at HSH, about the changes

PIPEs smoking as they head east

PIPEs are set to become more popular outside the US as firms list overseas to steer clear of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, PIPE fund managers Cornell Capital Management explain to Solomon Teague

Amine Bel Hadj Soulami

Amine Bel Hadj Soulami talks to Stella Farrington about his rise to global head of commodity derivatives at BNP Paribas

Swiss restructuring

As regulatory pressure on insurance companies to improve their solvency requirements increases, one reinsurer's reaction stands out from the crowd. Hardeep Dhillon looks at how Swiss Re is using innovative structures in the debt capital markets to…

James Vinci

As hedge funds have grown, so too has prime brokerage. Market leader Morgan Stanley's prime brokerage MD James Vinci explains the challenges of this business to Saskia Scholtes

Centralising the server

Yahoo! has been at the cutting edge of the internet revolution for the past 10 years, but its treasury risk management team has been relatively conservative in its use of derivatives. Jayne Jung talks to Yahoo! treasurer Gideon Yu

Gary King

Gary King, chief executive of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, talks to Stella Farrington about his hopes for energy trading in the Middle East

Paul de Fries, group risk manager, Noble Group

Paul de Fries is group risk manager of Noble Group. He began his career at the IPE, was a derivatives trader with Hull, and later joined ING Bank. He was head trader at Macquarie Bank before joining Noble in 2001

David Davies, chief financial officer, OMV

David Davies has been the chief financial officer at Austrian oil and gas group OMV since April 2002. A trained chartered accountant, Davies has held senior financial roles in companies that span a variety of industry sectors, including chemicals,…

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