Derivs - People and Markets
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Goldman Sachs is said to be close to a deal for the sale of its hedge fund administration business in a tie-up with State Street that would create the largest administrative services provider to hedge funds with an estimated USD700 billion.
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Georgia Sun has left as co-head of fixed income sales for Asia at Nomura.
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Lee Frankenfield, a senior equity derivatives trader at BNP Paribas, dubbed the Jedi Master of structured derivatives by traders in New York, has joined UBS in a senior equity derivatives trading role focusing on corporates.
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Jordi Chiu, regional head of South East Asia emerging markets interest rates trading at Société Générale in Singapore, is set to join JPMorgan.
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The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which was signed into U.S. law on March 18, 2010, as part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, includes a number of revenue raising provisions affecting cross-border derivatives transactions.
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Meteor Asset Management has hired David Stuff as managing director of Meteor Investment Solutions as it moves to broaden its distribution of listed structured products.
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BGC Partners has named Jonathan Falik as senior managing director and head of hospital capital markets for BGC Real Estate Capital Markets.
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Michelle Scrimgeour has left as co-head of fixed income at BlackRock to become group risk director at M&G Investments, succeeding the retiring Les Scrine.
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Malaysia’s AmInvestment Bank’s fund management division has launched the AmConsumer Select-Capital Protected Fund.
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Dmitry Avdeyev has left as co-head of investment banking at Morgan Stanley in Moscow to become v.p. for finance and economics at Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil producer.
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Newedge USA has appointed John Fay, global head of fixed income, currency and commodities, to take over as global head of metals after Michael Frawley left that position.