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Brindley leaves UBS for new pensions service at Mercer
Rupert Brindley has left UBS, where he was a managing director focussing on risk management and liability-driven investment strategies.
Single banking regulator plan for the US inches closer
Editor's blog
LCH.Clearnet to offer SwapClear to the buy side
London-based clearing house LCH.Clearnet discusses with Risk its plans to make the SwapClear over-the-counter interest rate swaps clearing platform available to buy-side clients in the fourth quarter of this year.
EGL opens UK office
EGL (Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Laufenburg), an asset-backed Swiss energy trading firm that forms part of supply company Axpo Group, is to open a London office under the name EGL UK.
Ontario debates cap-and-trade scheme
Cap-and-trade legislation introduced this week by the Government of Ontario, Canada proposed a 6% cut in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 1990 levels by 2014.
EC pushes for stronger financial co-operation
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Lilywhite joins Investec as head of structured solutions
Investec Capital Markets has increased its structured solutions team with the addition of Andrew Lillywhite, who has joined as London-based head of the team. Lillywhite will be responsible for developing the bank's treasury and structured product…
New global head of credit at UBS
Rajeev Misra has joined UBS as global head of credit.
New equity derivatives head for China at SGCIB
Gilbert Tse has replaced Sandra Lee as chief executive of global equities and derivatives solutions for China at Société Générale Corporate and Investment Bank (SGCIB).
US municipal market faces clean-up under new rules
The municipal bond market in the US is still largely in a state of disarray, well over a year after the collapse of the auction rate securities (ARS) sector, though signs of recovery are visible in the fixed-rated debt market, congressmen have heard.
Most risk managers still expect bonuses
Despite a global recession, the crisis in the financial sector, and massive and widespread failures in risk management, a majority of UK risk managers still expect to receive a bonus this year, a survey has found.
OTC trade repository plan faces hurdles
Financial authorities in the US and Europe have advocated the introduction of a central trade repository to gather data on the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, but there is concern that multiple repositories could do more harm than good.
The ups and downs of the Japanese yen
Asia Risk FX Review & Outlook 2009 - Sponsored statement
Forex freefall
Asia Risk FX Review & Outlook 2009 - Funding
Hoax hedges
Asia Risk FX Review & Outlook 2009 - Corporates
Fit for forex
Asia Risk FX Review & Outlook 2009 - Trading systems
No Indian summer
Asia Risk FX Review & Outlook 2009 - Regulation
Wolin returns to Treasury as deputy secretary
Neal Wolin has returned to the US Treasury as deputy secretary to work alongside secretary Timothy Geithner, after having left the department in 2001.
Gensler voted in as CFTC chairman
Gary Gensler, US President Barack Obama's choice for chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), was confirmed by the US Senate on May 19 by 88 votes to six.
BarCap hires equity derivatives flow sales head
Timothy Last, former head of equity derivatives sales for the Asia-Pacific region at Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, has taken on the role of head of equity derivatives flow sales for Asia excluding Japan at Barclays Capital.
Société Générale promotes Cassot as Joubert departs for BarCap
Société Générale Corporate and Investment Banking (SG CIB) has appointed Vincent Cassot as head of equity derivatives research, after previous head Arnaud Joubert left the bank to join Barclays Capital.
Isda's Handjinicolaou moves to Hellenic Capital Markets Commission
George Handjinicolaou, the deputy chief executive officer and regional director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, has joined the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission (HCMC).