New faces 2 short news WHAT'S NewS Issue 8 August/September 1997 pcople 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. Masthead Editorial Staff Editor in Chief: NoorTania (RI Marketing) Managing Editor: Anne Lavelle (Write Company) Editors: David Brown, Samantha Dobson Production: Len Fraser (RN Editorship) Editorial Address Rabobank Nederland, EO 516 P.O. 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