Barclays Capital
Idzik exiting as BarCap COO
Paul Idzik, group chief operating officer at Barclays, is leaving the bank.
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BarCap releases Quant credit strategy indexes
Barclays Capital has launched a new range of credit derivatives strategy indexes.
Del Missier becomes sole president of BarCap
Jerry del Missier has been appointed sole president of Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of Barclays Bank. He remains based in London. The move comes after the resignation of Grant Kvalheim, his New York-based co-president.
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BarCap launches global carbon index
Barclays Capital has unveiled an index intended to be a benchmark for the rapidly growing carbon-trading markets.
$3 billion of CPDOs at risk of unwinding
Barclays Capital estimates $3 billion of constant proportion debt obligations (CPDOs) are at imminent risk of being unwound.
BarCap aims swap indexes at LDI market
Barclays Capital has launched indexes of nominal and inflation swaps, aimed at pension managers following liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies.
BarCap releases emerging market indexes
Barclays Capital has published a set of indexes based on inflation-linked government bonds in eight emerging markets.
CPDO ratings scorned at credit risk summit
Rating agencies have come under attack once again for assigning ratings to constant proportion debt obligations (CPDOs), during a panel discussion at Risk’s 2007 Credit Risk Summit Europe in London.
BarCap launches “new currency” for financing
Barclays Capital has unveiled a synthetic currency intended to reduce funding costs for corporate clients, banks and hedge funds.
Ortner arrives at BarCap
William Ortner has joined Barclays Capital as New York-based head of equity product origination for the Americas. He will lead the firm’s equity-linked financing and corporate equity derivatives divisions and report to Craig Orchant, head of corporate…
Lloyds TSB makes more derivatives hires
Lloyds TSB has added four senior staff to its London derivatives team.
Standard Bank names new commodities trading head
Arvind Hariharan has joined Standard Bank as global head of the bank’s commodities hybrids and structured derivatives trading team.
UK pensions still exposed to volatile equities
Many UK pension schemes still face pension deficit volatility as a result of mismatches between assets and liabilities, according to a report by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
BarCap: CDB link will yield commodity opportunities
The £1.5 billion stake taken in Barclays by the state-owned China Development Bank (CDB) will help spur the two banks’ expansion in Chinese commodity derivatives, according to Benoit de Vitry, Barclays Capital’s London-based global head of commodities,…
Dresdner makes hires in rates flow trading
Dresdner Kleinwort has added a number of staff in rates flow trading, including a new head of interest rates flow trading.
BarCap hires European fixed-income structuring head
Barclays Capital has hired Aurelia Lamorre-Cargill as head of European fixed-income structuring.
Barclays Capital hires head of fixed-income modelling
Pawel Lewicki has been appointed to Barclays Capital’s global quantitative analytics group as head of fixed-income modelling.
BarCap launches buy-write ETN
Barclays Capital has created a new iPath exchange-traded note (ETN) linked to the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) S&P 500 BuyWrite Index.
China has top growth potential for Asian wealth, says BarCap
China is viewed as having the highest growth potential of any wealth management market in Asia during the next two years, followed by India, according to Barclays Capital’s annual industry survey, published on April 23.