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WHAT'S NewS Issue 8 August/September 1997
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Belgium earlier this year Harald
Presto started as senior relationship
manager.
Brazil Paulo Bellotti joins us head
of mergers and acquisitions.
China From September Sjouke
Postma will leave his post as general
manager for greater China area to
start his own consultancy business.
Germany New colleagues joining
corporate finance this month are
René Rottschalk heading export
and project finance, Matthias
Fischer-Petry also joining export
and project finance, and Rolf-Rainer
Riedel heading Health Care advisory,
while Heino Ruland has left the
bank.Hans-Georg Hermannjoined
us last month as head of mid office in
the financial markets administration
department,not head of financial
markets administration, as mentio-
ned in last month's What's NewS.
Hungary Rob van Zadelhoff,
previously senior account manager
in Utrecht, replaces Henk Leliveld as
Hungary's deputy general manager
- Henk returns to Utrecht.
UnitedKingdom GrahamBruce
returned from Utrecht in June to
take up his post as deputy manager
MTN asset packaging.Denise
Clifford joined the same depart-
ment as associate director as did
Anthony Conti as a dealer in money
markets. Andrew Coombs is the
newly joined associate director of
securitization,and lan Clarkson the
new deputy manager of export
finance.
The Netherlands Within investment
banking Raymond Monnik has
been appointed senior area
manager with relationship
management financial institutions.
Jacob van Dijk, senior account
manager F&A has left the bank.
Singapore Early in July Ben
Huiskamp left his post in Singapore
as senior project manager APF to
return to the Netherlands. In private
banking, Stephen Y Co was
appointed as marketing's senior vice
president for Rabobank Asia Ltd.
Thailand As of 1 August, Hans
Winkelmolen will leave his post in
Frankfurt as senior account manager
to become Bangkok's general
manager. He replaces Tjepke
Nawijn who returns to Utrecht.
Turkey welcomesHenkAdamsas
new general manager, he was
transferred in July from his position
in Poland as general manager.
RI's Risk Management has been
busy recruiting, signing up three
top people in one week.
Victor Makarov joined us in
New York on 7 July as Regional
Market Risk Manager.
Previously with Chase
Manhattan Bank for nine years,
Sydney's forex traders never
sleep - they'll look after your
positions around-the-clock.
Operating from the opening of
the first financial market
Monday morning to the closing
of the last market Saturday
(public holidays induded),
Sydney's 24 forex spot desk can
- on your behalf- monitor
open forex positions, market
movements and execute or
close deals at levels set by you
- night and day.To rest easy
contact Geoffrey Spice at
Rabobank Sydney.
Tel.+61 2 9231 2233
Victor's role was primarily
advisory, providing risk
management expertise for Chase
clients. Now in the driver's seat
in brief
DAIRY STUDY
Hot off the press is F&A
research's recently published
Central and Eastern European
Dairy Cooperatives study.
Written by Adri Zwanenburg
it can be ordered from RI
marketing at a cost of
NLG 150.
AGEING IN STYLE
Following lengthy negotiations
a cooperation agreement was
concluded 7 July with ABP,
Holland's largest pension-fund
company. The agreement
means, ABP will extend loans
to selected Dutch corporates
using RI's credit risk analysis.
RI's participation will be a
minimum of 25 percent in the
overall financing, with a
minimum amount per Dutch
corporate set at NLG 25
million. ABP plans to build a
NLG 1 billion portfolio with
RI, provided the bank can
source sufficiënt transactions.
A preapproved short list of
Victor Makarov
for Rabobank, Victor is enjoying
practising what he was
previously preaching. 'To be
working for a prominent
European bank with plans for
further expansion is very
exciting.
Chris Curtis is due to head
London's Market Risk Control
from September 1South African
bom, be moved to London four
years ago to work in a sintilar
24 clients has already been
compiled and RI is currently
working on credit 'knowledge'
for ABP - a first transaction
of NLG 50 million already
executed to the cliënt
Pakhoed.
TURKEY UPDATE
The application for rep-office
status has recently been
accepted for Istanbul, making
RI's presence in Turkey
official. All energies are now
concentrated on obtaining a
branch licence, projected to be
in place early next year.
Meantime the team, headed by
Henk Adams, is busy
recruiting and gaining on-the-
spot expertise in the emerging
Turkish market. They can be
found at:
Spor Cad. BJK Plaza, A Blok,
Kat 10 No. 101
Besiktas, 80680
Istanbul, Turkey
Tel. +90 212 236 50 90
Fax. +90 212 236 50 86
position for Société Generale.
Though fluent in Afrikaans,
Chris is looking forward to this
opportunity to learn 'proper'
Dutch. Last seen headed for
Australia for a short vacation,
we'11 show you a picture of Chris
at a later date.
Also soon to join head office is
Theo Koeken, new head of
Central Market Risk Control as
of 1 October. Currently with ING
in Amsterdam, Theo headed
market risk at Treasury Trading
and Sales before joining the
Global Risk Management
department. He views the change
in banks as 'an interesting shift.
Although smaller than ING's
corjxirdte and investment banking
activities, RI has equally big
ambitions.Theo is a frequent
international conference speaker
and author of a Risk Management
book scheduled for publication in
September this year.
Theo Koeken
(what's in a word
Readers, turn to page 9.
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