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Kestrel adds to investment management team

KITS mitigates inheritance tax by creating individual portfolios of Aim-listed shares, which are eligible for business property relief.

Ocean Dial, appoints new CEO

A qualified Chartered Accountant, Robin has extensive financial services experience having held a number of senior positions during his career, including Head of Group Finance at Close Brothers Group plc.

Kames Capital strengthens award winning fixed income team

Kames Capital has further strengthened its award winning fixed income team with three new appointments.

FSA appoints new FSCS chair

He will take up his appointment on 1 April 2012, succeeding David Hall CBE.

Top Morgan Stanley executive said to be among London departures

Fernando Ortega, the head of emerging-market fixed-income sales and trading, Amanda Webb on the securitization sales desk and Janko Nedic, a salesman for collateralized loan obligations, also left, two other people said separately.

SNR Denton boosts banking practice with strategic hire

Edward is a leading structured finance partner, with expertise in loan portfolio sales, securitisation, regulatory capital, commercial real estate financing, project bonds, debt capital markets and derivatives transactions.

Global law firm announces second finance partner hire for 2012

Elisabeth joins Taylor Wessing from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and prior to that was a partner in the banking group of Denton Wilde Sapte.

RBS Faces Nuclear Winter as CEO Hester Dismantles Goodwin’s Bank

By Thursday lunchtime in London, the 18,900 employees in Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s investment banking division will know whether they still have jobs at Britain’s biggest government-owned lender.

SocGen Names new Regional Leveraged Finance Unit head

He will also be a member of the global leveraged finance executive committee.

Boutique investment bank hires industry vet

The new head of research will also cover listed private equity, infrastructure funds and equity investment companies and joins amid an internal reshuffle at the bank.

Hoare Govett bidder loses top executive

Glenn Poulter, who joined Oriel as head of equities in December 2010, has left the firm after asking chief executive Simon Bragg whether he could extend his settling-in period during which his sizeable financial investment in Oriel could have been taken o

Salans makes up four to partner

In Brussels, Bogdan Evtimov is made up. Evtimov is a competition and international trade lawyer.

ABC International Bank London appoints New Top Management Team

Arab Banking Corporation has announced changes to the top management team at its key European subsidiary, ABC International Bank in London.

RBS appoints new head of strategy

Mr Kibble will take up his new post in March.

RBS likely to axe 5,000 jobs in investment bank review

The bailed-out bank is expected to concede that as many as 5,000 roles will be shed as it pulls out of equities to focus on areas such as helping major companies raise money on the financial markets.

Old Mutual appoints Emerging Markets head

He will take up his new position on 1 February

BGAM Adds To Senior Management Team In London

He brings with him a strong background in business development, client relationship management and wealth management across EMEA, Australia and New Zealand, having spent nearly 15 years working with a wide variety of clients.

Lazard Hires Noah Bulkin in London From Bank of America ‎

He joins Lazard from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was a Managing Director in the Europe, Middle East and Africa M&A team.

Newton augments UK private client team with new hire

Prior to joining Newton she spent 10 years working at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

Quilter expands UK regional footprint with new office

Quilter has enhanced its regional expansion with the opening of a new office in North Wales.

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