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SG appoints new commodity trading deputy
Société Générale (SG) has promoted Edouard Neviaski to deputy head of commodity trading, based in Paris.
Standard Chartered appoints capital markets chief
Brad Levitt has been promoted to global head of capital markets and wholesale banking at Standard Chartered in Singapore following the departure of the previous head David Worth.
CME names new business development chief
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has named John Davidson as chief corporate development officer.
Standard Chartered bolsters Asian forex team
Standard Chartered has hired Fu Qing from ABN Amro to head its foreign exchange trading business in Shanghai. Fu, who started with Standard Chartered on January 4, had previously worked for ABN Amro in Shanghai, where he was assistant vice-president of…
DrKW electronic drive sparks personnel moves
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the investment arm of Germany’s Dresdner Bank, plans to further separate its credit flow products and digital markets divisions as part of what it calls an effort to expand electronic trading across its business.
BIS appoints new chairman
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has elected Jean-Pierre Roth as its new chairman for a period of three years commencing March 1.
Caruana to step down as Basel Committee chief
Jaime Caruana will step down as chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in July, when his six-year tenure as head of the Spanish central bank expires.
Who's buying?
Operational risk derivatives are being reconsidered as a solution to banks' distrust of op risk insurance policies, but the market for these is yet to develop. By Duncan Wood
Basel spotlights home-host and EL issues
Basel, Switzerland – The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released two documents in late November, to provide the financial services industry with some additional clarity on both the home-host issue and the treatment of expected losses under the…
Patsystems poaches chief executive from AttentiV
David Paul Webber, former chief executive of UK financial services software developer AttentiV Systems Group, joins Patsystems today as chief executive to replace outgoing head Kevin Ashby.
Calyon appoints new London treasurer
Calyon's Asia-Pacific treasurer, Phillipe Cotillon, is set to leave the French bank's Hong Kong office to take up a similar treasury role in London, according to RiskNews ' sister publication FX Week .
Institutional-strength firepower
Neill Brennan's trading focus now is on European equities for Armajaro AM's market-neutral Coolum fund. However, his first focus upon joining Armajaro was to establish an institutional-strength company, says David Walker
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