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In May Andrew Cornthwaite joined Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital in a newly created position as head of its capital markets group, combining responsibility for the firm's equity capital markets and debt capital markets operations. The decision to leave Credit Suisse First Boston, which Cornthwaite joined in 1998 after its acquisition of his firm BZW, was not an easy one, particularly giving up the security of a job with a well known bulge bracket investment bank for the rough and tumble of the Russian capital markets.

Anshu Jain became co-head of corporate and investment banking at Deutsche Bank in September 2004. At the same time the firm revamped its business model to combine debt and equities sales and trading in a new division called global markets, of which he is head.

Arnaud Achour was made head of debt capital markets origination at SG CIB in September, responsible for corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns, supranationals and agencies.

This time last year one bank dominated the European real estate conduit market, in which investment banks originate property loans with the intention of securitising them later. Morgan Stanley's European Loan Conduit (ELoC) programme had executed all but a handful of the deals.

Atiq Ur-Rehman, who became head of emerging markets fixed income capital markets at Citigroup in June 2004, has been with the bank since leaving university in 1984. He joined Salomon Smith Barney's operations in Pakistan as an executive trainee in its corporate banking business, before transferring to London to work in investment banking in 1993.

Bank after bank is integrating its coverage teams, ostensibly to offer more seamless advice to customers. But will these reorganisations deliver the cross-selling benefits the banks crave? Or do they just need to concentrate on fewer customers? Neil Day reports.

Bill White joined Banc of America Securities in late May this year as global head of capital markets. He left after an 18 month stint at Credit Suisse First Boston, a job that followed 17 years in capital markets at Morgan Stanley, where he built a reputation as one of Wall Street's best business generators in debt capital markets. White's Morgan Stanley colleagues have had considerable influence over his career choices. John Mack and Jerry Wood, who both moved from Morgan Stanley to run CSFB in 2001, poached White in 2003 to be co-head of debt capital markets at CSFB.

Ben Iversen joined Lehman Brothers in May 2004 as executive director responsible for European ECM in the global finance division, which combines equity, debt and leveraged finance. He moved from Merrill Lynch in Singapore, where he had spent almost five years.

Deutsche Bank expanded Brian Bassett's job to include loans in December 2004, making him head of high yield and loan capital markets for Europe. He previously headed up the European high yield group. Bassett is responsible for high yield capital markets and syndicate, loan capital markets for both investment grade and leveraged, as well as par bank loan sales and trading.

Brad Craighead joined Countrywide from JP Morgan in March 2005, as head of its London securities subsidiary. His move to the US mortgage lender and servicer came after more than 20 years in securitisation, mostly on the sell-side. Craighead began his career in ABS doing holiday work at First Boston in between terms at St Lawrence University. He joined officially in 1986 as an analyst in the bank's mortgage products group, and since then has never strayed far from the thick of the action, rising to run the trading and syndicate desks at First Boston and later JP Morgan, in New York and London. In his long career he has trained some of Europe's best known syndicate heads, including Adrian Carr, who now runs the financial institutions desk at CSFB.

Brian Heyworth was promoted to head of international global markets sales at Bank of America in April 2005. Based in London, he reports to Jonathan Moulds, head of international global markets and Mark Miller, head of global market sales. He is responsible for the distribution of all debt and equity products to the bank's investor clients in Europe and Asia.

Brian Robertson was appointed co-head of international syndicate, Europe and Asia at Bank of America in May 2005. He joined the bank's London operation in June 2004 as a syndicate manager focusing on financial institutions and frequent borrowers, having left Lehman Brothers where he worked for eight years.