Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds TSB appoints head of FX derivatives trading
Lloyds TSB has appointed Anders Henrikson as head of foreign exchange derivatives trading in London.
Lloyds TSB makes more derivatives hires
Lloyds TSB has added four senior staff to its London derivatives team.
Lloyds TSB hires in corporate derivatives sales
Lloyds TSB has appointed Luke Walker as a manager in its corporate sales team.
Lloyds TSB makes institutional derivatives sales hires
Lloyds TSB has recruited Peter McGloughlin and Ian Shaw to its team selling derivatives to financial institutions.
Lloyds TSB appoints new leveraged syndications head
David Whiteley has been hired to manage Lloyds TSB’s newly formed leveraged loan syndication team.
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Lloyds TSB appoints head of debt origination
Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has appointed Farouk Ramzan to the new role of head of debt origination.
Lloyds TSB appoints new global solutions head
Chris Mitchell has been appointed head of global financial institutions solutions at Lloyds TSB Financial Markets in London. He comes from AIG, where he was head of UK derivatives marketing, and has previously worked as head of UK derivatives marketing…
Operational risk and compliance
One of the attractions of working on operational risk is the variety of the subject matter that is generally categorised under that heading. Op risk covers a series of diverse risk drivers. Examples are fraud, processing issues, and legal and regulatory…
Lloyds TSB appoints head of quantitative analytics
Lloyds TSB Financial Markets has appointed John Crosby as global head of quantitative analytics and research in London. He will lead a team of quants and will be responsible for developing models for pricing derivatives instruments across all asset…
Lloyds TSB hires Fortis Bank's structured credit team
Lloyds TSB Financial Markets has brought Fortis Bank's structured credit team to London to reinforce its own structured credit operation.
Derivatives dealers focus on mid-caps
Derivatives dealers are focusing more on mid-cap corporates this year as an alternative to the arguably over-banked blue chip companies, say some market participants.
RBS boosts equity derivatives sales team
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Andy Savill as an equity derivatives sales manager for the UK and Ireland.
Lloyds TSB hires liquidity risk and balance sheet manager
Lloyds TSB, the UK bank, has hired Mark Preston as a new managing director in its financial markets unit that manages liquidity risk and balance sheet requirements.
Regulators remain fuzzy on practicalities of AMA group allocation approach
Both US and UK regulators offered only clues about how the various controversies surrounding the group allocation issue would be resolved at OpRisk Europe and OpRisk USA, hosted by Incisive Media in March.
UK regulator clamps down on structured product selling
The UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) is set to finalise tough new guidelines for marketing retail structured products this month, as it moves to strengthen oversight after 2003's 'precipice' bond controversy, which saw Lloyds TSB fined almost £2…
FSA chief hits out at structured products
Financial Services Authority (FSA) chairman Callum McCarthy has warned of the dangers of banks selling complicated financial products to customers who do not fully understand them.
Lloyds TSB hires FSA risk regulator
Lloyds TSB, fined recently by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for mis-selling investment products to retail investors, has responded by hiring the UK financial watchdog's top risk regulator.
Lloyds TSB hires FSA risk regulator
Lloyds TSB, fined recently by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for mis-selling investment products to retail investors, has responded by hiring the UK financial watchdog's top risk regulator.
Lloyds TSB selects SAS to manage risk
UK financial services group Lloyds TSB has installed banking risk management software from SAS, a North Carolina-based data management software vendor. The technology will help the bank to meet Basel II credit risk compliance and further automate its…
Lloyds TSB selects SAS to manage risk
UK financial services group Lloyds TSB has installed banking risk management software from SAS, a North Carolina-based data management software vendor. The technology will help the bank to meet Basel II credit risk compliance and further automate its…
Roundtable > Operational risk quantification: a discipline at a crossroads
Operational Risk magazine held its first European roundtable during Risk magazine's annual European congress, in Paris, on April 9.
Credit protection for troubled European financials remains stable
The cost of protection for European financials has remained relatively unchanged this week, despite a spate of downgrades and negative ratings actions. Abbey National released poor results today, but credit default swaps on the British bank held firm…