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Rethinking regulation
Market manipulation and inaccurate pricing led to the reregulation of Ontario’s electricity market. But at the right price, the Canadian province may see a revival of competition, reports CatherineLacoursière
Bob Anderson
Former chief risk officer with El Paso, Bob Anderson now heads the Committeeof Chief Risk Officers full time. By James Ockenden
Frost quits JP Morgan Chase
Tim Frost, European head of credit sales and trading at JP Morgan Chase, has resigned to pursue other interests. Frost joined JP Morgan in 1995 and helped his firm become a dominant force in the fast-growing credit default swaps market. By the time of…
UBS appoints derivatives specialist to head Asian equities
UBS has appointed Chi-Won Yoon, the bank’s Hong Kong-based managing director of equity risk management, as its new Asian equities head, following the relocation of former head, John Holland, to London last September.
Icap denies coal trading team departure
Icap Energy has denied its coal team is defecting to Prebon Energy. On Tuesday, Prebon issued a press statement saying three members of the Icap coal team were joining the broker to strengthen its presence in coal markets.
TXU trading head resigns
VJ Horgan, president of TXU Portfolio Management, a subsidiary of Dallas-based TXU Energy, has resigned from the company "to pursue other interests".
BarCap snares CSFB distribution head
Guglielmo Sartori d’Borgoricco is set to join Barclays Capital, the investment-banking arm of UK-based Barclays Bank, from rival Credit Suisse First Boston. It is expected he will become managing director and head of distribution for the UK and…
Icap coal team jumps ship
Icap’s entire London-based coal team is defecting to rival broker Prebon Energy.
Lehman hires Tilroe for European derivatives marketing push
New York-based Lehman Brothers has hired Jason Tilroe as managing director heading up marketing of fixed-income derivatives to corporate and public sector clients in Europe. It is a new position created by the bank’s expansion in European derivatives…
Dembo steps away from CEO role as Algo secures new financing;
Ron Dembo, founder and chief executive of Toronto-based technology vendor Algorithmics, is to step away from his day-to-day running of the company to assume the role of chairman. The move comes as Algorithmics secured new financing from its main…
Deutsche Bank realigns Asian institutional client group
Deutsche Bank has made a number of management changes to its institutional client group (ICG) in Asia and Australia.
DrKW shuffles Asian credit business
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) has transferred Mike Gordon and Carlos Cala from Tokyo to Singapore in an effort to balance its credit business resources between the two cities, according to an official at the bank in Tokyo.
Spreading the net: in search of the best fund managers
RMB International's Global Spread Capture Fund, a fund of hedge funds, has added value by taking significant decisions about which market to be in at particular times.
Making thesystem workfor you
Zbigniew Hermaszewski,co-founder of AltisPartners, explains thestrategy of the firm'sglobal futures portfolio
keeping the momentum
Business succession
Telling the whole story?
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move with the times
Paul Dunning has brought a wealth of high-level experience to what is now HSBC Republic Investments and, having seen first-hand how institutional attitudes have changed towards hedge funds, shares his view of the future