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Mark Landis has resigned from Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, where he had recently been a managing director and head of fixed-income sales for North America.
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Mark Landis has resigned from Credit Suisse First Boston in New York where he was a managing director and former head of fixed-income sales for North America.
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HSBC's nascent Hong Kong equity derivatives desk is gearing up to begin prop trading in the coming days.
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Seoul-based derivative houses Hyundai Securities and Woori Securities are preparing to enter the nascent onshore Korean equity derivatives market within the coming weeks.
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The Singapore branch of Germany's Landesbank Baden-Württemberg is gearing up to market structured products in the coming weeks for it's newly established desk (DW, 4/4).
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Matrix Money Management, a U.K. hedge fund specialist, will launch a structured product that gives retail investors access to a single hedge fund next month.
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Morgan Stanley has hired David Bauer, an equity derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs in New York, in a similar role.
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Vega Asset Management, a hedge fund with some USD7.5 billion in assets under management, has hired Julian Barrowcliffe, former global head of commodity derivatives at Bank of America, in a move widely seen as a precursor to launching a commodity trading operation.
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Marco Avellaneda, director of financial mathematics at New York University, is launching a systematic volatility arbitrage fund in Paris, which is believed to be the first fund set up purely to extract correlation through quantitative techniques. -
The equity derivatives market was swirling with speculation last week that several sellers of call options had racked up substantial losses after the share price of OSI Pharmaceuticals more than doubled.
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Last week bankers, lawyers and quants swarmed to the Brewery in London for Risk's annual European conference.
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Several years after it entered its first credit derivatives Siemens Financial Services is still one of the only corporates that hedges its credit risk, but Ralf Lierow, director in Munich, thinks that is going to change.
