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FSA chief exec to stand down
John Tiner, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has announced he will be stepping down this year after six years at the regulator, more than three of them as chief executive.
T-Zero names chief operating officer
New York-based credit derivatives trade processing specialist T-Zero has named George Harrington as chief operating officer.
SocGen reorganises capital raising and financing
Société Générale has reorganised its equity and debt operations to create a single capital-raising and financing division.
ICE and Nybot merger complete
The merger between electronic energy trading platform IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and the New York Board of Trade (Nybot) is complete. The soft commodity exchange is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ICE as part of a for-profit, publicly traded…
Blackstone to cover private equity out of Hong Kong
US private equity firm Blackstone Group is expanding its Hong Kong office to cover private equity as well as its existing fund-of-hedge-fund activities in Asia.
SuperDerivatives upgrades structured products platform
SuperDerivatives has released a new version of its interest rate options and structured products platform, SD-IR.
State Street hires three directors in Europe
State Street Corporation, the Boston-based financial services provider, has appointed three European directors to its board.
McDonald retires from Bank of New York
Ross McDonald, co-head of derivatives trading for the global markets division of the Bank of New York (BoNY) for the past two years, has retired after 10 years in total with the bank.
BarCap hires in FX structuring
Barclays Capital has appointed Jamil Ghalayini as a director in corporate FX structuring. He is based in London.
Austin Energy uses World Energy Exchange for electricity purchase
Austin Energy, a community-owned electric utility and an Austin, Texas city department, has purchased 664.8 million kilowatt hours of on-call electricity supply using the World Energy Exchange.
SocGen reshuffles executives
Société Générale has overhauled its corporate and investment bank’s executive committee, and reorganised its divisions.
ABN Amro appoints leveraged finance heads for Asia and Spain
In a move to ramp up its leveraged finance business in Asia and Europe, ABN Amro today appointed Chi-Chi Chain as head of leveraged finance in Asia, and Inigo Heredia as head of leveraged finance in Spain.
Deutsche Bank bolsters equity prime brokerage
Deutsche Bank has named Barry Bausano as co-head of equity prime brokerage, along with Jonathan Hitchon.