Nordea
Two leaving Icap FX team
Two members of Icap's spot FX team are to leave. Garry Munday, head of spot FX in London, will be joining WestLB later this month, and Rene Simonsen, based in Copenhagen, will be joining Nordea in December.
Municipality Finance issues Finnish inflation-linked bond
Finland-based public sector credit institution Municipality Finance has launched a Finnish inflation-linked bond.
Nordea books loss over hedge mistrade
A trader's error last December cost Nordic bank Nordea €20 million, the bank has admitted.
Leading the pack
Nordic banks are well ahead with their Basel II programmes compared with their international peers. But there are concerns about home regulator rules and advanced credit risk data requirements. Laurence Neville reports
Risk 2003 Europe: Liquidity risk best practice needed, says Nordea’s Hansen
The absence of either established best practice or sufficient academic theory in the area of liquidity risk management is problematic, said Mads Smith Hansen at the eighth annual Risk Europe conference in Paris yesterday.
Job cuts at Nordea Securities to have minimal derivatives impact
Nordea's decision to slash nearly 20% of its Nordea Securities investment banking workforce should have only a limited impact on the Nordic bank’s derivatives business, it announced yesterday.
Creative solutions for unique problems
Credit risk management systems are surprisingly sophisticated at many Nordic banks. Ellen Leander examines the changes being made to existing infrastructure to keep that edge.
Nordea snares Andreasen and Bangert to boost exotics
Nordea Markets, the investment banking arm of pan-Nordic bank Nordea, has made two key hires as part of its bid to boost complex derivatives activities.