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Freddie Mac names new fixed-income investment head

Freddie Mac has hired Patricia Cook to head its fixed-income investments. Cook, who will report to Richard Syron, Freddie Mac’s chairman and chief executive, joins from JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management, where she was chief investment officer for global…

BNP Paribas makes structured rates hire

BNP Paribas has hired Kara Lemont Sportelli for its fixed-income derivatives structuring group. Lemont Sportelli will focus on engineering exotic interest rate and hybrid derivatives products for investors and liability managers. She is based in London…

Shell appoints governance advisers

Energy major Royal Dutch/Shell Group yesterday appointed investment banks Citigroup and Rothschild as financial advisers to the steering committee reviewing its structure and governance.

Bank of America loses global markets head in Asia

Goetz Eggelhoefer, former managing director and head of global markets, Asia, at Bank of America in Singapore, has left to join the Rohatyn Group, an emerging market hedge fund started by ex-JP Morgan Chase trader Nick Rohatyn.

SG promotes fixed income and derivatives chief

SG, the corporate and investment banking arm of French bank Société Générale, has promoted Grégoire Varenne to head of fixed income and derivatives, commodities and treasury for Europe and Asia.

JP Morgan Chase’s merger plans revealed

JP Morgan Chase’s (JPMC) plans to absorb Bank One’s global foreign exchange trading business became clear last week, following the completion of the US banks’ merger on July 1, reports RiskNews’ sister publication FX Week .

Newsome leaves CFTC to head up Nymex

James Newsome has quit as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to head up the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex). Newsome’s resignation is effective from July 23, and he will be president of Nymex from August 2, replacing Bo…

APX restructures and hires senior staff

APX Group, which provides exchanges for natural gas and power trading across northwest Europe, will move London-based power exchange UKPX’s forwards market onto its own system on August 18. The group has also made several senior appointments following…

Newsome leaves CFTC to head up Nymex

James Newsome has quit as chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to head up the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), a CFTC spokesman told RiskNews’ sister publication Energy Risk . Newsome’s resignation is effective from July 23…

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