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DrKW reorganises credit derivatives business
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the investment banking arm of Germany's Dresdner Bank, restructured its London credit derivatives business today.
ING bolsters hedge funds sales in Asia
ING Financial Markets, the equities and fixed-income sales, trading and research division of ING Group, has hired Donald Klip as vice-president of hedge funds sales, Asia.
Boston-based AIR releases terrorism risk model
AIR Worldwide, a Boston-based catastrophe and weather risk modelling company, today released what it claims is the first commercially available terrorism risk model. The model estimates the financial impact of insured property and workers' compensation…
UBS Warburg poaches Merrill Lynch veteran in Asia
UBS Warburg has snared Christopher Lee, a seven-year veteran of Merrill Lynch, to head it intermediary desk for equity risk management products.
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “Regulatory fear is creating a lot of uncertainty, and that fear does impact the financial markets” Jennifer Patterson, energy trading manager at Edison Mission Energy in Australia, arguing at the Australia Risk 2002 conference last…
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Credit risk
Freezing out the competition
Nord Pool
Red hot in the frozen North
Hedge funds
Sweden’s swap philosophy
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Brummer & Partners: a dominant force
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FXall hires marketers from former rival Atriax
Two former employees of defunct multi-bank FX tradingportal Atriax were last week hired by rival portal FXall. Keith Hill joins FXall in London as head of Europe, Middle East and Africa sales, while Michelle Bachmann-Love was made head of North America…
Citi snares Achnitz from Goldman to head German FX
Citigroup has made two hires to its foreign exchange business in Frankfurt, in a move that global forex head Richard Moore said underlines its commitment to the German market.
Deutsche appoints new Japan head of credit
Deutsche Bank has appointed David Schrenzel as head of integrated credit trading in Japan, replacing Jeffrey Zavattero who resigned from the bank last month.
Lehman Brothers hires head of Japan fixed-income sales
Lehman Brothers has hired Tetsu Serizawa as managing director and head of fixed-income sales in Japan.
EnergyClear hires senior risk officer
EnergyClear Corporation (ECC) has hired Holly Arney as senior vice-president of risk management. ECC, a Houston-based, not-for-profit, industry-owned and sponsored clearing house, aims to provide comparison, netting and settlement of over-the-counter…
Op Risk Looks Back... To the 18th Century
The 300-year-old statistical methods of Thomas Bayes are experiencing a renaissance.
"The Day I'll never forget"
Remembering September 11th
Growing pains
CDO managers
Ford: spanner in the works?
Credit of the month
Keeping up with credit derivatives
Technical
Flying the flag
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