Profile
An aggressive agenda
Dresdner’s chief risk officer, Heinrich Linz, is masterminding a credit revolution at the German bank.
The active manager
SG Asset Management’s Stéphane Farouze provides tailor-made capital guarantees for investment managers. After closing some of the biggest deals in Europe, now he is eyeing the US
From academia to entertainment
Don Stowers reports on an internet platform for the oil and oil products market that is branching out into the entertainment business
High-yield survival
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The opportunist
In Barclays Capital, Bob Diamond has created a business that can compete with the global bulge bracket
Facing up to the brave new world
US firm Xcel Energy is coming to terms with new market realities in the US – and not wholly as a result of the Enron factor. Don Stowers profiles the company
Filling the energy void
The market for the trading standard energy blocks online is one of the most highly contested, but with new exchange E-lecTrade the focus switches to structured products. By Don Stowers
Open practice
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Janine McArdle
Managing director, Aquila Europe