On The Move

The following is a list of prominent personnel moves from around the U.S. and European fixed income markets. To submit an item for inclusion in this column, please contact Scott Goodwin, managing editor, at 212-224-3276 or sgoodwin@iinews.com.

* Donald MacKinnon has joined Nomura Securities International as a managing director and head of mortgage-backed and asset-backed bonds. He most recently was ceo of a commercial mortgage-backed securities software company and prior to that had been a managing director at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. MacKinnon, who will be based in New York, reports to Najib Canaan, head of fixed income. * Michael Normile has joined HSBC Securities as head of the U.S. asset-backed bond business. He joins from Merrill Lynch, where he had been head of asset-backed finance among other departments. The hire is part of the bank's strategy to increase its activities in the U.S. capital markets, with ambitions in the ABS market being part of a broader expansion plan.

* Bill White starts next month at Credit Suisse First Boston as co-head of global debt capital markets along with Paul Tregidgo, the other co-head. White, who resigned last week from a similar role at Morgan Stanley, takes over from Peter Milhaupt, who moves into the role of senior coverage officer within the debt capital markets group, according to an internal CSFB announcement. White will report to Jim Healy and Jerry Wood, co-heads of fixed income. Wood spent his career at Morgan Stanley before joining CSFB last year.

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Simon Burton has joined hedge fund Wharton Asset Management in London as a collateralized debt obligation manager. He previously had worked in a similar role at BlueBay Asset Management, and prior to that spent five years as a quantitative analyst in the ABS group at Abbey National.

 

 

* Jamie Bryant III started last week in the new Charlotte, N.C., office of Dechert LLP as a partner specializing in commercial mortgage-backed securities. He previously was a partner in the securitization practice at Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. The hire, for a new role, is part of Dechert's plan to expand its activities in asset- and mortgage-backed securitizations, as well as in the collateralized debt obligation market, according to John Gillies, a senior member of the law firm's finance and real estate group executive committee.