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BGI adds in Asia
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) appointed three new members to its Asian business at the end of June. Nick Good was appointed head of iShares, Asia-Pacific, responsible for iShares in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. Good…
Trade bodies draft structured product guidelines
Five major trade bodies have teamed up to offer a 10-step guide on the types of principles structured product providers and distributors should consider when offering these instruments to retail investors, including high net worth individuals.
BBVA poaches Isla from BarCap
BBVA has hired Lorenzo Isla from Barclays Capital as head of credit derivatives structuring. Isla will be based in Madrid. He joined from Barclays Capital in London, where he was head of structured credit strategy.
Scott Prince joins SkyBridge Capital
Scott Prince, Goldman Sachs’ former head of equity derivatives, has moved to New York-based firm SkyBridge Capital.
Fitch adds to European structured finance emerging markets
Fitch Ratings has appointed Jaime Sanz as a senior director to lead its London-based European structured finance emerging markets team.
Kempen & Co. hires Pontier and Zoutenbier to build structured products business
Kempen, an investment bank in Amsterdam, has hired Koen Zoutenbier from Fortis and Hans Pontier from Rabobank to build a structured products business for its institutional and private investors and its private banking clients at Van Lanschot, which…
Barclays Wealth adds Bansal
Satya Narayan Bansal has joined Barclays Wealth as head of its onshore private banking business in India, moving from ICICI’s Singapore-based private banking business where he was head for South East Asia.
Sempra Energy to partner with Royal Bank of Scotland
Sempra Energy today announced that it will form a joint venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to significantly expand Sempra Energy’s commodity-marketing business.
Fortis nabs Schroders’s Theisinger
Fortis Investments has hired Martin Theisinger as its head of client relationship management for Germany, Austria and Central Europe. Theisnger joins from Schroder Investment Management, where he was a managing director for Germany, Austria and CEE.
Rohner crowned UBS chief amid boardroom disagreement
Marcel Rohner, a former chief risk officer, has been made group chief executive of UBS, after the bank’s board rejected the planned accession of Peter Wuffli to the post of chairman.
Barclays Wealth hires India head
Barclays Wealth, the private banking unit of Barclays Bank, has hired Satya Narayan Bansal as its first head of private banking in Mumbai.
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.
Taiwan Futures Exchange names new chairman
Andy Yeh today became the new chairman of Taiwan Futures Exchange (Taifex), replacing Rong-I Wu, who is now chairman of Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation.
Derivative Fitch appoints global CDO risk modelling head
Damiano Brigo has been hired by London and New York-based rating agency Derivative Fitch, as head of global collateralised debt obligation (CDO) risk modelling.