People
Shin Kong's life plan
Insurer profile
Bond ambition
Regulator profile
Data's destiny
Grid Computing
The African
Securitisation
New head of debt market sales at RBS Securities
Royal Bank of Scotland Global Banking & Markets has named Shoji Taniguchi as head of debt market sales for RBS Securities Japan.
HSBC sacks US head
HSBC has replaced Bobby Mehta, its chief executive in North America, after it announced lending arrears from the US mortgage business would cost the bank more than $10.5 billion, 20% higher than analysts’ forecasts.
Canabarro returns to Stanley
Eduardo Canabarro will return to Morgan Stanley on March 5 after a three-year stint at Lehman Brothers, where he was global head of quantitative risk management. In that role, he oversaw the firm’s market, credit and operational risk analytics, as well…
Size constraints
Commercial real estate
Sizing up skew
Structured products providers' methods for hedging skew are fairly homogeneous. Some banks, however, are searching for ways to refine their approach to hedging by transforming skew risk into an investment palatable to sophisticated investors. By Rachel…
The derivatives watchdog
Thomas Huertas, FSA director of wholesale firms, talks to Alexander Campbell
Data's destiny
Grid Computing
Tullett moves into energy
Market data provider Tullett Prebon Information has named Craig Tee as its first head of global energy and commodities.
Meteor lands in UK market
A new company, Meteor Asset Management, has been set up to distribute structured products in the UK. The company is headed by Graham Devile and Phil Saunders both who previously worked at UK structured products provider, Nvesta. Meteor is targeting the…
Apollo poaches distressed debt team from Credit Suisse
New York-based private equity firm Apollo Management has poached two distressed debt bankers from Credit Suisse’s leveraged finance department.
Deutsche Bank names head of complex risk syndication
Deutsche Bank has named Martin Fisch as head of complex risk syndication, a newly created post in the global markets division.
TXU agrees to record $45 billion buyout
The board of TXU Corp, the Dallas-based energy company, has agreed to a $45 billion takeover by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Texas Pacific Group and Goldman Sachs, the investment bank.
JP Morgan hires head of equity derivatives flow marketing
JP Morgan has hired Adrian Valenzuela as a managing director and head of equity derivatives flow marketing, covering hedge funds and asset management clients, for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
JP Morgan hires EMEA equity marketing head
Adrian Valenzuela will join JP Morgan in London in May, as head of equity derivatives flow marketing for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Wachovia three surface at Dresdner Kleinwort
Three members of Wachovia's equity derivatives sales team have left the US bank to join German rival Dresdner Kleinwort.