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Ratings agencies compete with banks on debt hires
Ratings agencies, such as Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch, are looking to add to their structured finance teams. But with banks doing the same, agencies are having to be inventive in how they go about doing it. “Everyone is hiring collateralised debt obligation (CDO) people at the moment,” says Andrew Farr, head of structured [...]
Fund managers fish for analysts
Asset management firms are casting their recruitment nets into new waters when it comes to hiring analysis staff. Petra Rickmeyer, practice director for global financial services recruitment at search firm Hoggett Bowers, says asset managers are increasingly prepared to hire analysts with strategy consulting or industry backgrounds. “Funds are looking to widen their talent pool,” [...]
Job wrap: Pisker exits Dresdner
Last week’s big news was the revelation that Andrew Pisker, London-based chief of executive of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), was making a swift exit. Pisker’s retreat follows a shake up in which DrKW is to be folded into the corporate banking division of Dresdner Bank. Stefan Jentzsch, who left German bank HVB earlier this month, [...]
Job wrap: Heavyweight moves in investment banking
There was no shortage of hiring announcements last week, where the weightiest fell in the world of investment banking. Lazard hired Riccardo Pavoncelli, a veteran Morgan Stanley banker, as head of European cross-border transactions. Pavoncelli, who was head of banking in Italy and a co-head of its European media and telecom advisory group, will be [...]
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