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Morgan Stanley crowns King as head of oil liquids
Other commodities moves at BAML, Freepoint, GDF Suez & Goldman Sachs
RMB volatility slows corporate hedging activity
Demand for structured forwards down by 80% as corporates wait for currency to stabilise, dealers say
Leder returns to SEC in cross-border role, and other recent job news
Paul Leder rejoins after 14-year stint in private practice
Westpac appoints two in Hong Kong, and other recent job moves
Steven Yu and Alex Tam join Australian bank
PBoC behind RMB depreciation
China central bank acts to stimulate two-way trading
People: Paquin replaces de Dinechin at Lyxor
Inès de Dinechin departs Lyxor
Deutsche Bank makes commodities cuts
Goldman names new commodities heads; BAML exits European power and gas; GDF Suez promotes Moorooven; Newedge names commodity heads; JP Morgan hires EDF power trader
Fixed income specialist Coherence Capital names senior portfolio manager
Coherence Capital Partners makes senior portfolio manager appointment as Legal & General Investment Management names two to its asset allocation team in tactical asset allocation research and strategy
Risk awards 2014: HSBC wins top house
The UK bank wins for the growing ambition of its OTC capabilities, as Risk publishes its fifteenth annual awards
Hedge fund derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management
Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management has launched a number of new initiatives in 2013, while continuing to build its core managed account platform
How to capture growth in an autocallable world
Strategists are cautioning investors to look beyond autocallables and take advantage of low volatility to buy growth products. The banks have listened, engineering new solutions to capture upside. But will investors take the bait? Yakob Peterseil reports.
Bank risk manager of the year: Deutsche Bank
Bank risk manager of the year: Deutsche Bank
China metal repo business included in Deutsche Bank commodity cuts
Former commodity heavyweight has also closed its successful metals financing business as part of global restructuring
Ex-Deutsche Bank energy traders launch hedge fund
New fund will trade financial transmission rights in US power markets
Risk management sweatshops? Number-crunchers move to satellite offices
From Berlin to Birmingham, from Tampa Bay to Dallas, banks have tried to boost their risk management resources – while keeping a lid on expense – by building teams in relatively low-cost cities. But do these far-flung offices improve performance? Joe…
People: BNP Paribas to take RBS staff in structured products deal
The French bank will house up to 600 RBS staff after winning auction; SG CIB provides new CEO for Newedge; US futures business at Deutsche gets new boss; JP Morgan promotes divisional CFOs; SGX splits regulatory and risk roles
Finra names Rufino head of member regulation
People: Finra names head of member regulation
Commodities house of the year – Deutsche Bank
Commodities house of the year
Capital or P&L? Deutsche Bank losses highlight CVA trade-off
Critics of Basel III’s credit valuation adjustment (CVA) capital charge have long warned it would produce perverse incentives. Now, in the form of a string of quarterly losses in Deutsche Bank’s CVA hedging programme, they believe they are being proved…
German banks agree to reveal structured product valuations
In a bid to stay one step ahead of the regulators, a consortium of major German banks has volunteered to boost disclosure around the pricing and payout probabilities of their structured products