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Deutsche hires director in strategic equity transactions group
Tim Maynard has joined Deutsche Bank’s strategic equity transactions group as a director, based in the London office.
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.
Spitzer to drop RBC inquiry
Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, will not pursue a formal inquiry into Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) for overpayments its clients made on foreign exchange trades, RiskNews’ sister publication FX Week has learned.
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 .
Morgan Stanley Investment Management snares quant head
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) has recruited Sandip Bhagat as managing director and global head of quantitative strategies. He reports to Joseph McAlinden and is based in New York.
Meff creates risk tool
Meff, the Spanish derivatives exchange, has developed a software tool that enables users to calculate risk that takes into consideration the worst scenario resulting from a customer or account’s open position plus the combination of live orders, reports…
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…
CME’s Falsafi promoted
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) Arman Falsafi has been promoted to managing director for Europe and Asia. Previously, she was head of Globex, the exchange’s electronic trading platform.
Grantham to set up hedge fund services firm
Veteran convertible bond analyst Jim Grantham is set to launch a firm called Conv.Biz, aimed at providing a range of services to hedge funds.
Competition up in US futures, but Eurex to struggle, says report
The entrance of Eurex to the US futures industry has improved the quality of the market, according to research company Celent.
FirstRand Bank gives ABN Amro CLS mandate
ABN Amro has been awarded a mandate by FirstRand Bank for third-party continuous-linked settlement (CLS) services in South Africa.
DrKW adds to sales and trading in Paris
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW) has made a number of sales and trading appointments within its capital markets team in Paris.
David Li joins Barclays quantitative group
David Li, a former quantitative researcher at Citigroup, has joined Barclays Capital in New York as its global head of quantitative analytics for credit derivatives.
Nomura builds up international credit group
Nomura International has made eight new appointments in London, New York and Hong Kong for its global credit group, which specialises in structured credit products and trading. The additions come as Nomura seeks to expand this particular business line in…
Calypso adds Mark-it’s Red
Technology company Calypso has integrated Mark-it Partners’ reference entity database (Red) into its trading systems.
Australian Securities Exchange moving up to OM’s Click XT
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has signed a 10-year agreement to use OM Technology’s Click XT as the integrated trading platform for its equity, derivatives and fixed-income products, reports RiskNews' sister publication, Dealing With…
Lyxor launches ETFs on eurozone government bonds
Lyxor Asset Management, a subsidiary of French bank Société Générale, has launched two exchange-traded funds (ETFs) products based on eurozone government bond prices and listed on Italy’s stock exchange, the Borsa Italia.
Rivals gear up for forex clearing
The stage is set for a central counterparty clearing (CCP) system for foreign exchange as two potential providers moved their plans forward last week, reports RiskNews' sister publication, FX Week .
AIG restaffs forex post-merger
Banque AIG, a subsidiary of AIG Financial Products, has hired six sales and trading specialists in a bid to upgrade the foreign exchange component of its cross-product service, reports RiskNews' sister publication, FX Week .
Fidelity risk chief lands at SEC
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has hired Charles Fishkin as director of the newly formed Office of Risk Assessment (ORA). Fishkin will manage the overall risk assessment programme, co-ordinating risk assessment activities across the…
Reuters and Reveleus team up on ERM product
Reuters and Boston-based financial analytics company Reveleus are launching an enterprise risk management solution designed to reflect risks across the trading and banking book.
Eurex US gets regulatory approval from Spain and Italy
Regulators have cleared the way for Spanish and Italian traders to directly access derivatives exchange Eurex US, which was launched in February.
Component proponents II
Christophe Pérignon and Christophe Villa propose a novel method of extracting the risk factors driving interest rates that allows both the covariance matrix of interest rates and the variances of the risk factors to vary through time. To illustrate the…