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—Michele Faissola, vice chairman of the board of directors at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and global head of rates and commodities at Deutsche Bank, on the contribution that Mark Yallop has made to the derivatives industry throughout his career.
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CQS CQS, the USD11 billion hedge fund manager founded in 1999 by Goldman Sachs’ former head of equity trading Michael Hintze, has been impressing dealers with its expertise in convertible bonds and asset backed securities as well as the consistency in its positive performance. Officials in the credit derivatives market have also heaped praise on CQS’ credit long/short fund, launched in 2009, noting that the fund had been at the forefront of the market in credit default swaps and bonds since inception.
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Allen & Overy Allen & Overy continued to burnish its reputation as a leading regulatory and industry derivatives advisor over the last year, particularly with its work with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s working groups and determinations committees as the industry gears towards standardizing contracts. Investors cited the firm’s ability to provide advice for both vanilla and exotic derivative structures globally. Examples cited included its work in advising on new structured UCITS compliant funds and fund umbrellas, as well as advising a host of central counterparties on their applications as derivative clearing organizations. Partners cited include David Benton and Ed Murray in London, and David Lucking and Deborah North in New York.
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BGC Partners BGC Partners has been expanding its electronic trading business in 2011. In May it executed its first fully electronic euro sterling interest rate option on its Volume Match tool on BGC Trader, three months after it executed its first fully electronic Australian dollar interest rate swap and electronic sterling interest rate swap on BGC Trader. Analysts point to the growth of the firm’s electronic interest rate derivatives trading business, which in the first quarter of 2011 drove a 24.9% year-on-year increase in fully electronic trading revenues, as evidence to the expansion the firm has made in staff and technology over the last year. Those personnel seen as driving the expansion include Howard Lutnick, chairman and ceo, Shaun D. Lynn, president, and Philip Norton, global head of e-commerce.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch The firm has landed investor plaudits for its emerging market structured product coverage and inventiveness in cross-asset solutions. They cited the firm’s presence and marketing of cross-asset products in Asia, such as the launch of its USD8 billion retail structured note program in Singapore. Over the last year the firm has been expanding teams in Europe, the U.S. and Asia, with notable hires including Anupam Gupta as head of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa structuring, and Paul Hansen as head of Canadian structured solutions. Senior officials include Yonathan Epelbaum, head of U.S. structuring, and Alexis Besse, head of rates and currencies structuring.