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Morrison & Foerster expands capital markets business with hire of Elana Hahn
Elana Hahn joins Morrison & Foerster's capital markets group in a role that involves guiding clients through regulatory changes.
FTSE hires Filippa to head Italian business
FTSE has appointed a head for its Italian operations as it continues to invest in a market that now promises good opportunities in indexing and ETFs
BNPP's Franc moves to Wealth Management
BNP Paribas Wealth Management has bolstered its offering with the addition of Rémy Franc, previously head of equity derivatives sales and structuring for the corporate investment bank
Credit Suisse names Abbasi as new Asia chief executive
Hans-Ulrich Doerig, chairman of Credit Suisse, said the appointment will further strengthen the bank's management team in the Asia Pacific, a key growth region for the Swiss banking group.
Axa loses structured finance chief to Goldman Sachs
Axa loses structured finance head to Goldmans
BoA hires Michael Benz to head Merrill Lynch Asia Wealth Management
The wealth of Asia Pacific high net worth individuals (HNWI) stood at $9.7 trillion at the end of 2009, up 30.9% from a year earlier and above the $9.5 trillion held by Europe’s HNWIs, according to the Merrill Lynch CapGemini 2010 World Wealth Report
Aegon UK strengthens its risk management capability
UK arm of insurer appoints two directors to join its risk team
Emerging markets analyst joins Insparo Asset Management
Emerging markets analyst joins Insparo AM
Deutsche hires high yield professionals for European trading business
Deutsche adds two to European high yield team
Société Générale Private Banking appoints new chief exec in South Asia
The private banking arm of Société Générale has made Olivier Gougeon chief executive of its South Asia operations
Credit Suisse names James Hong to head Hong Kong private banking
Hong will provide client coverage and facilitate cross-divisional collaboration within the bank as the most senior representative in Hong Kong for Credit Suisse’s private banking business
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Henderson recruits Griffiths as credit analyst
Henderson recruits Griffiths as credit analyst
JP Morgan’s Asia commodities chief Dawe quits
Oral Dawe built up JP Morgan's commodities business into one of the largest platforms in Asia since joining the US bank from Goldman Sachs in 2008.
Crédit Agricole moves Lainé to lead financial institutions group in Asia
Crédit Agricole CIB names Frédéric Lainé as head of financial institutions, considered a key strategic client segment for the bank. Graham Willams has been promoted to head fixed income for Asia ex-Japan.
Ramsay named as SEC trading and markets deputy
US Securities and Exchange Commission appoints replacement for Gallagher
Deutsche Bank adds Joshi to buildout
After resigning Barclays Capital on July 9, Dixit Joshi, formerly head of equities for Emea and Asia-Pacific at the UK bank has joined Deutsche Bank in a similar role
Commerzbank builds FX globally
Commerzbank has made key hires in sales and trading across Asia, Europe and the US as it strengthens its global FX business, the bank said on August 25.
HSBC global asset management appoints Asia head for sovereigns
Sovereign and Quasi-sovereign entities, which make up the majority of institutional assets in Asia-Pacific, are strategically critical to growing HSBC's regional institutional business, said Rudolf Apenbrink, chief executive officer of HSBC Global Asset…
RBS adds two for Asia financial institution group
Kenneth Tung takes over role as head of FIG Asia-Pacific from James Pearson, who has left the bank
Citi adds new head for Asian FX team
Citi continues Asian FX team expansion by relocating Perret-Green from Citi's Europe markets division to Asia to head FX strategy. Citi says its foreign exchange daily trading volumes exceed $15 billion a day in Asia.
Trading positions - September 2010
Energy Risk catches up with the latest appointments, promotions and departures in global commodity markets
Barnes bows out of RBS
Royal Bank of Scotland suffers two senior departures in its foreign exchange business