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Barclays Capital makes senior credit sales appointment in New York
Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of the UK’s Barclays Bank, has hired John Lovisolo as a managing director in its North American credit derivatives and structured product sales team.
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Using transaction data to measure op risk
Since 1999, Peter Hughes has led a team of op risk specialists that has studied transaction processing environments in global banking organisations. The focus was on examining and understanding the causes of operational failure. The information and…
Learning from Esops’ fables
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Age of reason or age of procedure?
The risk management industry's increasing use of sophisticated models and technology – when coupled with poor modelling choices – can cause problems. Stephen Blyth calls for a return to to judgement and reasoning, and a halt to proceduralism.
Goldman Sachs to lose two top forex prop traders
Goldman Sachs is to lose its two chief London-based prop traders at the end of the year.
The misdirected directive?
Germany's financial regulator, BaFin, tried to steal a march on its European rivals by implementing a new directive that should open the door to asset managers investing in new products and using over-the-counter derivatives. But did it get it wrong?
Lehman raids BNP Paribas’ credit team
Lehman Brothers has taken three new credit strategists from BNP Paribas. The US firm has made Alan Capper chief strategist, along with David Brickman, and named Gregory Venizelos as a research analyst. They will be London-based, reporting to John Wilson,…
Deutsche Bank hires head of European insurance origination
Deutsche Bank has hired Mark Woolley to head up the German bank's European insurance origination department, part of the company’s debt capital markets division.