BNP Paribas is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Lane to its global hedge fund relationship management (HFRM) team as head of the Americas. BNP Paribas will continue to hire in this area to match our significant growth in the Hedge Fund space.
Commenting on the appointment, Talbot Stark, global head of hedge fund relationship management said, “Chris' appointment further enhances our global effort in HFRM, a team comprising of a diverse group of professionals, with backgrounds in structured credit, equity finance, fixed income-prime brokerage and equities and derivatives. He’s a seasoned professional with extensive client relationships. His experience and skill-set is the right fit for us and we’ll continue to add people of this caliber to the hedge fund relationship team globally.”
Chris most recently worked at Merrill Lynch in New York where he was a Director of institutional sales in the equities division. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at Goldman Sachs also as an institutional salesperson and before that spent three years at Morgan Stanley Asset Management.
He will be based in New York and report locally to Todd Steinberg, head of equities and derivatives for the Americas and Kip Testwuide, head of origination and distribution for fixed income in the Americas. Chris will also have a functional reporting line to Talbot Stark in London.
In addition to Chris’ appointment, Mark Walker, head of hedge fund relationship management, Europe, has been named Chief Operations Officer.
About Corporate and Investment Banking at BNP Paribas:
BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment banking division (CIB) has 15,000 employees, deployed in over 52 countries around the world. It operates in advisory and capital markets (Corporate Finance, Equities, Fixed Income) as well as in financing businesses (Energy, Commodities, Export and Project Finance and Structured Finance). CIB excels in three fundamental sectors in particular: Derivatives - it is one of the leading global players in rates, credit, forex, commodity and equity derivatives Capital markets - it is amongst the top ten Euro houses for both ECM and DCM (bond issues, securitization, convertibles and shares). Structured finance - it is amongst the world leaders for acquisition, export, project and commodity finance. For further information please visit our website at http://cib.bnpparibas.com/
About BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com) is a European leader in global banking and financial services and is one of the 4 strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor’s. The group is present in over 85 countries, with 161,000 employees, including 125,000 in Europe. The group holds key positions in three major segments: Corporate and Investment Banking, Asset Management & Services and Retail Banking. Present throughout Europe in all of its business lines, the bank’s two domestic markets in retail banking are France and Italy. BNP Paribas also has a significant presence in the United States and strong positions in Asia and the emerging markets.
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