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BarCap snares Bes from BNP Paribas to head private bank coverage
Barclays Capital has today appointed Pierre Bes as a managing director and head of private bank coverage, Europe.
BNP Paribas appoints new head of metals within commodity derivatives
BNP Paribas has promoted Russell Plackett to head its metals products business within its commodity derivatives unit.
Consolidation and convergence key to success of Bahrain’s implementation of sharia-compliant Basel II
The deputy governor of the Bahrain Monetary Authority (BMA) Anwar Khalifa Al Sadah, has detailed plans to implement a sharia-compliant Basel II accord in Bahrain by 2008, stressing the need for the consolidation of Islamic banks. “Islamic banking is…
Cost of storage is secondary to the needs of end-users, says CESR
Although the cost of storage and filing of regulated information is an important consideration, the decision on which model of storage to implement should be based on the needs of the end-user and proper fulfilment if the transparency directive should…
Barclays hires 15 to equity division
Barclays Capital has hired 15 people across its equity-linked sales, trading and research desks in Europe, the US and Asia. The hires began at the beginning of the year, bringing the number of staff working across the equity division of the bank to 165,…
New CIO for Tullett Prebon
Interdealer broker Tullett Prebon has named John Del Vecchio as its new chief information officer.
Lehman Brothers hires global head of structured asset management
US based investment bank Lehman Brothers has appointed Stephane Rougier as London-based managing director and global head of structured asset management. Rougier will report to Omar Abukhadra, global head of the investment management division, structured…
BGC appoints global head of inflation
Inter-dealer broker BGC has promoted D’Arcy Miell to global head of inflation products at its London headquarters. He moves from the broker’s New York office, where he worked as a director of US inflation derivatives for the past three years.
BoA snares Taishin's CRO as its new Taiwan chief
Financial markets veteran James Lin has become Bank of America’s (BoA) chief executive in Taiwan, moving from local firm Taishin Financial Holdings, where he was chief risk officer.
BNP Paribas adds to London fixed-income sales
BNP Paribas has recruited two senior fixed-income salesmen from Deutsche Bank for its flow rates sales team in Europe.
ABN Amro creates emerging market ABS role
ABN Amro has appointed Gary Watmore to the newly created position of head of emerging markets asset-backed securitisation (ABS) in London. He moves from the bank’s Hong Kong office, where he was most recently head of Asian ABS.
Industry to call for €50,000 minimum EU hedge fund threshold
An industry body formed to analyse the current organisation of the alternative investments business in the European Union (EU) will tomorrow call for no specific regulation of hedge funds save for a minimum investment threshold requirement of €50,000.
Why it pays to split the pot, or how to hedge your pension fund's bets
Equity Insurance Group chose Union Bancaire Privée for hedge funds, and JP Morgan for long-only, for its £500m mandate in May. Solomon Teague investigated how the deal was done
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