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The head of asset-backed banking at Bear Stearns has left.
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Chris French, head of exotics and hybrids at JPMorgan in London, will retire in March.
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Emerging Portfolio Fund Research, Inc, analyses inflows
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SG Corporate & Investment Banking has hired well Raphael Geys as head of fixed income sales for Europe. Geys reports to Frederic Desclaux, co-head of fixed income for Europe and Asia. Desclaux confirmed the hire. Geys, last sighted at UBS (DW, 2/11/04), could not immediately be reached as he does not have a phone listing at SG yet.
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Asian investors unloaded more than half a billion dollars in agency debentures in three trading sessions last week, according to sell-side officials.
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Bryce Markus, v.p. in the fixed-income currency and commodities division and corporate debt and credit derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs, has joined Blue Mountain Credit Alternatives as a portfolio manager in New York.
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Radian Asset Assurance, a bond insurance provider, is plotting to increase by 40% the par dollar amount of insurance contracts it writes this year and hopes to ride the growing wave of synthetics.
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Joyce DeLucca has left Katonah Capital, which she formed in 1999 with Kohlberg & Co., to form Kingsland Capital and now three Katonah analysts and principals, Brian Carlson, Tom Liu and Robert Perry have also resigned, loan sources said.
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Credit Suisse First Boston has structured an innovative collateralized loan obligation for MJX Asset Management that adjusts more quickly to changes in the market value of loans than traditional CLOs and provides better protection to senior noteholders.
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Lee Enterprises has tapped two new lead banks to quarterback the financing of its $1.46 billion acquisition of Pulitzer. Deutsche Bank and SunTrust Bank have landed lead roles after the Davenport, Iowa-based Lee interviewed several banks for the top spots. -
European structured finance professionals are starting to scrutinize servicer risk in a bid to stave off some of the painful servicer-induced losses seen in the U.S. market.
