Deutsche Bank
In this week’s podcast Colin Lambert gets to air some long-held grievances at market structure change when Galen Stops asks him, “any thoughts on the Deutsche Bank job cuts?” Our two podcasters look at the function of risk in the market, as well as the potential impact of what Lambert sees as a steady shift […]
Probably the big news in markets this week was the swingeing cuts at Deutsche Bank and while I cannot see this through anything other than a prism of regulation – specifically the courage of some regulators to take action while other put their head in the sand and hope it goes away – I wonder […]
Former Deutsche Bank trader and managing director Andreas Hauschild has been acquitted of conspiracy to defraud at London’s Southwark Crown Court over the rigging of the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) after being found not guilty of manipulating the benchmark rate during global financial crisis. The case was brought by the UK”s Serious Fraud Office […]
Profit & Loss understands that Ian O’Flaherty has joined Westpac as head of digital solutions and client technology. Based in London, he will report to Sydney-based Giulio Katis, managing director and head of financial markets e-commerce at the bank. O’Flaherty has been consulting in the e-fixed income space since leaving Deutsche Bank in mid-2018 after a […]
In this week’s lively and extended podcast Colin Lambert and Galen Stops mange to disagree on just about everything as they dig into the details around the announcement that Citi has given notice to four of the biggest non-bank market makers in FX and discuss the potential implications for the industry as a whole. They […]
Paul Cusack has joined Deutsche Bank’s FX prime brokerage (FXPB) team in London. Hired as a director, Cusack will report into Dave Reid, managing director, global head of FXPB at the bank. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Cusack spent 15 years at Citi, where he was also a director in the FXPB business. Cusack has […]
This year Profit & Loss decided to update the format and judging categories of our annual Digital FX Awards. The process remains subjective but we have not restricted ourselves to the narrow confines of previous years’ categories. Instead of many of the categories, we have created Awards for Excellence in e-FX, something that we believe […]
Thought Leadership This is a totally new angle for these awards and, we feel, a real benefit of the more flexible approach we have taken this year. It is hard to know where to put Deutsche’s work in market structure research within our previous framework, but luckily this year the problem is solved. Execution quality […]
A jury at a London court has found former Barclays interest rate trader Carlo Palombo, guilty of manipulating the Euribor benchmark interbank lending rate, however it found a fellow former Barclays trader not guilty and is still considering its verdict in a third related case.
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) brought the case, alleging that Palombo, Sisse Bohart, who was acquitted, and Colin Bermingham, who is awaiting a verdict, colluded with former Deutsche Bank counterparts Christian Bittar and Phillipe Moryoussef to fix the benchmark rate set. The methodology alleged by the SFO was very familiar to anyone following these cases – the dealers allegedly pressured fellow workers who were charged with submitting the bank’s reference rate, to alter to suit the accused’s books.
Bittar and Moryoussef were convicted last year on the same charges, the latter was given an eight-year jail sentence, which Bittar, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
An Australian court has sentenced former Sydney-based Deutsche Bank FX options and futures trader Andrew Donaldson to 18 months imprisonment after he pled guilty to falsifying entries in Deutsche’s internal financial records and systems.
Donaldson pleaded guilty to one charge of using his position dishonestly with the intention of directly or indirectly gaining an advantage for himself, however the sentence was fully suspended and he was released on his own recognisance with a condition to be of good behaviour for two years and a security sum of AUD 10,000.
