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Brian McBride was hired by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in March 2005 as a managing director and co-head of global leverage business, a joint venture combining the bank's financial sponsors coverage with its capital markets leveraged finance business. McBride co-heads the team with Pascal Maeter, head of DrKW's financial sponsors coverage group, and both report to Bill Fish, the bank's global head of loan syndicate.

Carsten Stoehr was appointed head of Japan fixed income sales and trading for Credit Suisse First Boston in November 2004. Widely seen as one of the bank's rising stars, he is responsible for all fixed income sales, trading and structuring business in Japan. Stoehr is a member of CSFB's fixed income division operating committee. On several occasions, Stoehr has been parachuted into areas where CSFB has been struggling and helped to turn the firm's business around. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis in 1999, he moved to Hong Kong as head of Asian debt capital markets.

Carol Shymanski was named as global head of loan syndications at Calyon in February 2005. After Crédit Agricole Indosuez acquired Crédit Lyonnais in May 2004, she became co-head, but in February she was named sole global head.

The latest phase in Charlie Berman's banking career began in May 2004 when he was appointed global head of fixed income product origination for sovereigns, agencies and supranationals. This new position brought together bonds, MTNs, loans, derivatives and ABS for these top credits into one platform for the first time at Citigroup. The move was designed to reduce the multiple contact points that clients had with the bank.

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Among the more high profile of a spate of appointments at the time, Jones' hiring was considered a coup for HSBC as it had managed to lure away one of the MTN market's most highly regarded bankers — a chief architect of the strength and success of Deutsche Bank's structured EMTN business. After seven years working on Deutsche's EMTN desk, with the last three years running the business, Jones resigned at the end of May 2004 and took up his new challenge at HSBC in September. He is charged with running the origination, structuring, execution and distribution of structured debt and private placements for bank, corporate and agency borrowers throughout Europe, the US and Asia.

Ask anyone involved with European securitisation which investment bank has had the biggest impact on the market in the last five years, and whatever their affiliations, they would have to say Citigroup. The bank's remarkable success in both league tables and innovation has many roots, but the stability of its structured finance team must be an important one.

"We are running it together, it is a partnership," Brunner says of his new job as global co-head of fixed income marketing, alongside Paul Hearn (qv) at BNP Paribas. "We are speaking any number of times all day long." Strategy, organisation and monitoring results Brunner and Hearn do together, but to make day-to-day management easier, Brunner looks after the Americas and Asia, as well as financial institution clients and distribution, while Hearn takes care of Europe, corporate and sovereign customers and origination.

Daniel Palmer earned a reputation at Morgan Stanley as a skilled, eloquent and thoughtful equity-linked and later ECM/GCM specialist. He last autumn made one of the most high profile moves in the region, taking on the role of managing director and global head of equity and equity-linked capital markets at until then perennial ECM underachiever HSBC.

If two's company and three's a crowd, a team of 12 managing directors made Deutsche Bank's European equity capital markets business one of the most crowded in the market, and it is little wonder something had to give. And give it did in April with the high profile defection of Craig Coben, one of Deutsche's most senior European equity originators to Merrill Lynch.

Cristian Jonsson was made head of Asian fixed income syndicate for UBS in August 2004, filling the spot left vacant by Mark Leahy's (qv) departure to Deutsche Bank. With over 10 years' experience at UBS, Jonsson had previously worked on the bank's London financial institutions syndicate desk.

Easily the most sensational hiring in European securitisation so far this year was Bank of America's raid on UBS, taking its head of securitisation Steve Skerrett and Drew Allan, head of ABS syndicate, for equivalent jobs at BofA.