Derivs - Equity

Donal Galvin, a senior Hong Kong staffer at Rabobank, has gained global responsibility for equity and fund derivatives following a reshuffling in the firm's European and U.S. offices.

Deutsche Bank in Japan has replaced managing director and global head of equity sales, Jim Lee, who left in recent weeks reportedly to join the buyside (DW, 3/17).

HSBC equity derivatives trader Wissam Wazen has left the bank's London office and is tipped to reappear at Morgan Stanley.

Société Générale Asset Management has started distributing its T-Rex hedge fund replicator in Asia.

U.K. thrift Leeds Building Society is marketing a cliquet account linked to the Credit Suisse Global Warming Index.

Morgan Stanley has hired a single-stock trader from HSBC in London.

ABN's head of private investor products in London has left the firm.

Delegates descended on the Four Seasons hotel in Hong Kong and the Raffles Hotel in Singapore for the two legged Structured Products Forum 2008.

Jim Lee, Deutsche Bank's managing director and global head of Japanese equity sales in Tokyo, has left the firm.

Senior single-stock trader Matthieu Prevot is moving to Dresdner Kleinwort after almost three years at Citigroup.

U.K. investment shop Legal & General is selling a FTSE 100 linked growth structure, hedged by Abbey Financial Markets, that offers a kick-out feature and 100% capital protection.

Senior trader Marc Fauvain, formerly head of dispersion trading at Dresdner Kleinwort, is joining Morgan Stanley.