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High yield issues grabbed the centre stage in the European bond market this week as Nordic Telephone Co brought a highly successful Eu2bn bond to finance Europe's largest leveraged buy-out — and Danish cleaning company ISS had to delay its deal after being too ambitious on size.
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Adam Green, managing director and former co-head of North American equity structured investments marketing at JPMorgan in New York, resigned from the firm Wednesday. He is reported to be taking a group of people with him to Lehman Brothers, including Christina Sfakianos, v.p., but that could not immediately be confirmed.
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Goldman Sachs has hired Craig Packer from Credit Suisse to serve in a senior role in U.S. high-yield capital markets.
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Jamie McWilliam, Asian head of the financial markets derivative solutions group at ABN AMRO in Hong Kong, has left the firm. Reasons for his departure could not be determined by press time and McWilliam could not be reached. Hui Yuk Min, spokeswoman at ABN in Hong Kong, confirmed the move and noted a replacement is still being decided.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland has hired Matthew Reader, executive director responsible for credit correlation at UBS in London, as global head of correlation trading in London. He fills the hole left by Sanjeev Gupta, co-head of global credit trading and head of correlation trading (DW, 1/20).
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Deutsche Bank has hired Greg Berman, v.p. in the firm's quantitative products engineering group in New York, from Citigroup. Renee Calabro, Deutsche Bank spokeswoman, said Berman will start this week and report to Chrif Youssfi, director and head of the quantitative products group within global markets equity in New York, who is building out the group. Youssfi declined comment.
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UBS has hired Jonathon Boos, director responsible for third-party equity derivatives marketing, from JPMorgan in New York. Jeff Sparks, managing director in equity derivatives, said Boos starts May 15, reporting to Gale Herzing, managing director. Boos replaces Chris Rosen, director, who left UBS last month for HSBC. Herzing was out of town and unavailable for comment.
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HSBC in New York has hired Andrea Barrezueta, v.p. and multi-asset structured originator for high-net-worth accounts, from Wells Fargo Capital Management in San Francisco.
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Taro Goto, a senior credit-default swap trader at The Royal Bank of Scotland in London, has quit after nine months at the firm. An insider confirmed he has taken a new position at another credit house, but his destination could not immediately be determined. Goto declined comment when reached on his cell.
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Extracts from a speech by Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia, at the Tun Ismail Ali Chair Public Lecture in, Kuala Lumpur, 18 April 2006.
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Central bank chief strikes conciliatory note on Washington lender