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RenCap takes Dresdner global debt capital markets head
Petri Kivinen, London-based global head of debt capital markets at Dresdner Kleinwort, will join emerging markets investment bank Renaissance Capital in September.
CFTC names new chairman
The US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has named Walter Lukken as acting chairman, replacing Reuben Jeffery.
Barclays Global Investors makes Asian hires
Barclays Global Investors (BGI), one of the world’s largest asset managers with $1.8 trillion under management, has made three appointments for its Asian business.
Deutsche Bank appoints five bankers to prime finance business
Deutsche Bank Securities has appointed five senior bankers to its New York prime brokerage business.
Jerzy Pawlowski joins Primus Guaranty
Jerzy Pawlowski has joined New York-based credit derivatives company Primus Guaranty's asset management arm as a portfolio and risk manager.
Brunei group poaches Deutsche Islamic subsidiary's team
Dar al Istithmar (DI), the London-based Islamic finance adviser majority-owned by Deutsche Bank, has lost its entire advisory team to the Brunei financial group BMB Capital.
Structured Credit Suisse Move
Credit Suisse has announced three hires in its fixed income and coverage teams for the investment banking business in Australia.
RBC takes Nair as head of Structured Credit
RBC Capital Markets has appointed Priya Nair as managing director, global head of Structured Credit Product origination and syndication. Nair will spearhead the global coordination of origination and distribution of RBC Capital Markets’ structured credit…
Deutsche loses five from shariah subsidiary
Five members of the Dar Al Istithmar Group (DI), a Middle East-based subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, have moved to BMB Group, the Brunei-based Islamic asset management provider. The five were the advisory team in the DI group, which also includes a…
In the shadows
Booming over-the-counter derivatives markets may be generating huge revenues for dealers, but they are also casting a worrying shadow over trading book profits in the form of counterparty credit risk. Are contingent credit default swaps the answer?
Italian regulator establishes quant unit
Italy's Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (Consob), the regulator that oversees the country's securities markets, has created a stand-alone quantitative analysis unit.
BNP Paribas hires European securities lending head
BNP Paribas has appointed David Lonsdale to the newly created position of European head of securities lending, within its equities and derivatives business.
BarCap hires European fixed-income structuring head
Barclays Capital has hired Aurelia Lamorre-Cargill as head of European fixed-income structuring.
RBS hires to financial institutions securitisation
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has hired Hubert Tissier de Mallerais as a managing director in its financial institutions securitisation team.
Credit Suisse makes fixed-income hires in Sydney
Credit Suisse has made three new hires to its fixed-income sales and coverage teams in Sydney for its Australian investment banking business, reflecting strong momentum in corporate sales and structured products, says the bank.