Derivs - Equity

Morgan Stanley has reorganized equity derivatives structuring and sales responsibilities following the departure of its former head of structured retail product sales to Europe Benedict Peeters.

Morgan Stanley has reorganized its equity derivatives sales effort in Europe.

Investment houses in the U.K. are eyeing potential changes to wrappers with a significant cut in capital-gains tax expected to be revealed in this week's budget.

U.K. financial advisor Meteor Asset Management has released an income plan referencing five banking stocks, similar to one released by Blue Sky Asset Management, which attracted criticism.

Building society Birmingham Midshires is selling a clutch of FTSE 100-linked equity bonds, with varying trigger dates.

Majdi Meziou, global head of equity exotics, hybrids and fund products trading at ABN AMRO in London, has left the firm.

Goldman Sachs has joined the rash of firms offering exchange-traded notes and is upping the ante with a note linked to an index of funds.

Headhunters are predicting more firms will follow on the heels of Deutsche Bank in positioning heads with global responsibility in Asia, and particularly in Hong Kong, this year.

HypoVereinsbank, the German arm of the UniCredit Group, is issuing a novel capital-protected open-ended fund.

Korea's Financial Supervisory Service has relaxed a rule that says that liquidity providers cannot trade in the last month of a warrant contract, by allowing the liquidity providers to trade as normal for index warrants.

William Lyons, global head of equity derivatives trading at Banco Santander in London, has left the firm.

HVB is marketing an open-ended fund that offers protected exposure to the Euro STOXX 50.