ABN Amro

Citigroup wins FX Week strategy award

Citigroup’s FX strategy team took the top spot in FX Week's best bank in FX research and strategy award, ousting last year’s winner Deutsche Bank into second place.

Data hurdles

The risk management rumour mill has been buzzing in recent weeks with the story that US banking regulators have told the senior management of the country’s 30 largest banks that they will be expected to implement the advanced internal ratings-based (IRB)…

Currency overlay set to hit $500 billion

Currency overlay, the management of currency exposures in an investment portfolio separate from underlying asset exposures, is set to become a $500 billion dollar industry within the next three years, according to Piero Overmars, Dutch bank ABN Amro’s…

ABN Amro to release second iBoxx-linked note

ABN Amro is to issue a second credit-linked note early next week, called iBoxx 40, following the release of its iBoxx 50 credit-linked note in July. iBoxx 40 will be the first index-derived credit product issued in Swiss francs, with an initial issue…

ABN Amro hires German global financial markets head

Dutch bank ABN Amro has hired Hermann Watzinger to head its global financial markets group in Germany, covering all of the bank’s activities in fixed income, including structured finance, treasury, asset securitisation and fixed-income derivatives…

ABN Amro hires head of European CMBS

Dutch bank ABN Amro has appointed David Newby in a dual position as head of European commercial mortgage-backed securitisation (CMBS), and UK and Irish securitisation.

Egar Technology secures $2.5 million in new funding

Egar Technology, a risk management systems vendor set up to hedge funds, banks and commodity risk managers, has secured $1.5 million in funding from World Bank private sector investment arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and $1 million…

ABN Amro hires global head of CDOs

Dutch bank ABN Amro has hired Fernando Guerrero, formerly managing director of structured products at TD Securities, to head its global collateralised debt obligation (CDO) business.

Singapore reconsiders hedge fund rules

Hot on the heels of Hong Kong’s decision to open up the hedge fund market to retail investors, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is now revising its own rules on retail hedge fund investments, bringing it in line with its main regional rival.

ABN Amro continues credit derivatives expansion

ABN Amro has made Terri Duhon its London-based head of credit structuring and head of exotics trading, a newly created position. Duhon is the latest in a string of senior credit derivatives hires for the Dutch Bank in London, New York and Singapore.

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