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Jorge Munoz and Marco Schwartz started as Barclays Capital's co-heads of equity capital markets in Asia Pacific last week, moving the bank closer to its goal of building a strong ECM business in the region.
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Morgan Stanley has hired three convertible bond specialists from Standard Chartered — revealing the extent of its ambitions in the fast-growing market.
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UniCredit has hired Nick Hiley as a managing director for its equity sales team in London despite a hiring freeze across the bank.
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RBC Dominion Securities is realigning its European business to focus on value added structured debt. Gary Mulgrew, who joined in August last year as head of structured finance, becomes head of global banking, Europe. He replaces Colin Sturgeon, who becomes deputy chair of RBC Europe Ltd, and will take on a senior relationship and client coverage role. "Colin is quite senior and seasoned," Mulgrew told EuroWeek. "We want to cover fewer clients and we want to build relationships with fewer clients, but much deeper, and we want to cover them at all levels."
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THE MANAGEMENT of Blaxxun Interactive was forced to pull the company's Eu49m-Eu59m Neuer Markt IPO this week, after it failed to generate confidence in its business model. It was the second time the management has been unable to bring the company, which creates three dimensional on-line communities, to market. Falling down twice means the company will almost certainly have to look for other sources than the equity markets for further funding.
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* Commerzbank Global Equities has appointed Brian O'Keefe and Charlie Dove-Edwin to form a new pan-European engineering research team. They will be joined by Winfried Becker who is based in Frankfurt and has been with Commerzbank for two years. Brian O'Keefe joins CGE from JP Morgan Investment Management. Charles Dove-Edwin joins from Lehman Brothers.