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Credit Suisse Asset Management snares head of quant resources
Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has hired Joseph Cherian from Bank of America's fund management business as managing director to head the new quantitative resources group in New York.
Deutsche loses top LatAm derivatives marketers
Deutsche Bank has lost two of its top derivatives marketers for Latin America. Hugo Faria, head of Latin American derivatives marketing and Mauricio Esquenazi, Faria’s deputy, have left for UBS and Credit Suisse First Boston, respectively.
Barclays poaches head of German fixed-income sales from CSFB
Omar Selim, formerly head of German fixed-income sales for Credit Suisse First Boston, is to join Barclays Capital.
Martin Wiedmann leaves UBS
The departure of Martin Wiedmann from UBS in Zurich last week sparked a guessing game among his peers over which bank he is set to join, reports RiskNews ' sister publication FX Week .
DrKW hires six in hedge fund sales
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank, has made six additions to its hedge fund sales team in recent weeks. All six take the title of director and will be based in London.
Kemp takes foreign exchange helm at Merrill
Morgan Stanley foreign exchange chief Stephen Kemp is set to take on the continued build-up of Merrill Lynch’s forex business, following the resignation of co-head of global foreign exchange and rates Michael DeSa, reports RiskNews' sister publication FX…
Barcap adds in equity derivatives
UK-based investment bank Barclays Capital has made two appointments to its equity derivatives team in London.
Wachovia expands structured credit team
Wachovia Securities, the corporate and investment banking arm of Charlotte-based financial services company Wachovia Corporation, has recruited five people to work within the structured credit products group.
CSFB recruits equity derivatives marketer
Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), the investment banking arm of Zurich-based financial services company Credit Suisse Group, has hired Stephen Roti as managing director and head of US corporate equity derivatives marketing, within the equity-linked…
Deutsche promotes securitisation boss to head US global markets
Deutsche Bank has appointed Phil Weingord as head of global markets, North America.
BarCap snares CSFB distribution head
Guglielmo Sartori d’Borgoricco is set to join Barclays Capital, the investment-banking arm of UK-based Barclays Bank, from rival Credit Suisse First Boston. It is expected he will become managing director and head of distribution for the UK and…
Davies lures another ex-CSFB credit derivatives head to Bear Stearns
Mark Davies, head of global credit derivatives trading at Bear Stearns, has lured another former CSFB colleague to the US investment bank.
Bracing for Basel
When international banking supervisors met in Basel, Switzerland in 1999 to propose a new framework for capital adequacy, they set in motion the biggest shake-up of the decade as to how banks measure risk and allocate capital. The new proposals, called…
More banks putting capital into research
ABN Amro and Barclays Capital are among the increasing number of banks putting money on their trade recommendations for foreign exchange, reports Risknews’s sister publication FX Week . Both have allocated money to start trading on model portfolios this…
Credit Suisse signs up for RMDS
Credit Suisse is to upgrade the market data platform of its headquarters in Zurich to the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS).
S&P 500 pension plan funding to cost $57 billion over next two years
The cost of funding defined-benefit – company sponsored – pension plans at the top 500 listed companies in the United States will hit $24 billion this year and $33 billion in 2005, according to research by Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB).
Bear Stearns snares another top credit derivatives executive
Bear Stearns has made another senior hire in its rapidly expanding credit derivatives department. Alex Reyfman will join the US investment bank in New York as managing director and head of credit derivatives research.
ABN Amro continues derivatives build-up
ABN Amro has hired two foreign exchange derivatives marketing managers in the latest stage of its ongoing derivatives business expansion.
UBS adds to Taiwan equity risk management team
UBS has boosted its equity risk management team in Hong Kong with the appointment of Alex Chi as executive director.
Risk quant of the year Lipton snared by Citadel
Alex Lipton, who won Risk ’s Quant of the Year award in 2000, has left Credit Suisse First Boston after only nine months and joined Citadel Group, the Chicago-based hedge fund.
Rothschild enters oil risk sector
Heading the senior team is Martin Fraenkel, previously managing director of JPMorgan Chase's global commodities group in London. Fraenkel has recruited hissenior team from outside Rothschild. KamalInvestment bank Rothschild has entered the oil risk…
World Cup finals catastrophe-linked bond launched
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fifa), football’s world governing body, has launched a catastrophe-linked bond to protect itself against financial losses that would result if the 2006 World Cup finals were to be cancelled.
ANZ appoints director of financial markets for Europe and US
Australia and New Zealand Investment Bank (ANZ) has appointed Gilles Planté as director of its financial markets business for Europe and the US. He was previously director of commodities and foreign exchange derivatives, a post he has held since 1997.
Bear Stearns snares another CSFB credit derivatives head
US investment bank Bear Stearns has snared another top credit derivatives executive from Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) following its appointment of Mark Davies as global head of credit derivatives in May.