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Risk Talent: 74% of risk personnel are considering job change
A 74% majority of 500 risk-management professionals surveyed by New York-based recruitment agency Risk Talent Associates say they are considering changing jobs in the next two years.
Deutsche appoints head of index strategy group
Deutsche Bank has appointed John Butler as managing director and head of the index strategy group within global rates, effective immediately. He will report to Bhupinder Singh, head of structured rates products, Europe and Asia and be based in London.
ABN appoints head of global commodity finance
Bart Timmermans has succeeded Anushavan Simonyan as head of global commodity finance at ABN Amro, effective May 1, 2007.
Credit Suisse forms new equity products group
Credit Suisse has formed a London-based equity derivatives product management group with Stephane Diederich appointed as head, effective from this week. Diederich will report to Simon Yates, head of global equity derivatives and co-head of European…
Deutsche hires CEEMEA securitisation head
Deutsche Bank has appointed Tim Nicolle as a managing director for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) securitisation. He will join the bank in the second quarter and will report jointly to Jeff Stolz, head of the European…
Winterthur chief leaves Credit Suisse after one month
Leonhard Fischer, Credit Suisse’s chief executive of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has left the bank after formally joining it for one month.
London & Capital creates structured products division
UK investment adviser and fund management company London & Capital has established a new structured products division.
Victory for Sox and PCAOB
US District Court judge dismisses SOX/PCAOBlawsuit
GFI buys London shipbroker
Inter-dealer broker GFI has bought Century Chartering, a London shipbroker.
IBF names new chairman
David Bell has succeeded Ian Mullen as chairman of the International Banking Federation (IBF).
Man promotes in Hong Kong and Switzerland
Man Investments, the London-based asset management arm of Man Group, has promoted Tim Rainsford to managing director for Asia-Pacific, in Hong Kong. He replaces Matt Dillon, who takes on a newly created role as head of global relationship services, based…
Aon forms risk consulting group
Insurance group Aon has formed Aon Global Risk Consulting, a Chicago-based risk consulting, captive management and risk engineering group, which will be part of Aon Global.
Fimat launches FX desk in Sydney
Fimat, a brokerage and part of the Société Générale group, has moved its Asia foreign-exchange execution team from Chicago to Sydney.
FXMarketSpace opens for business
FX MarketSpace, an international foreign exchange trading platform run by Reuters and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), started operations today.
Equities and fixed-income merged in Morgan Stanley overhaul
Morgan Stanley has made broad changes to its organisational structure and reporting lines, including ditching the separation of equities and fixed-income.