New faces
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short news
WMAT'S Nf.wS Issue 1 lanuary 1998
True, Moscow representative's
general manager Maarten Pronk is
a new face, but as he's been with
us since September, he's not brand
new.Something of a specialist in
emerging markets, specifically in
his knowledge of Eastern Europe
and South America, Pronk it seems
is tailor-made for the job of
setting up Rabobank's operational
presence in Russia. One of his
previous positions was with ING
as their Moscow general manager,
a post from which he walked away
with a prestigious 'best foreign
bank in Russia'award.Surinam-
born, Pronk is a Dutch national
with more than 15 years of
banking expertise behind him.
Aside from establishing new
operations in emerging markets,
other areas of specialization
include trade finance and fixed
people *)-
Maarten Pronk
income securities. Russia he views
as a continent with 'tremendous
potential.' He feels the Russian
market is not merely exciting, it is
also significant.'To be doing
business for the Rabobank in
Russia is for me living through an
historie process.'
Investigations are underway for
opening a rep office in Tokyo
following recent managing
board approval.The move is in
line with proposals set out in
the investment banking plan.
RECTIFICATION
In our last December issue of What's
News page 6 we showed photo-
graphsoftheFA&MIS seminar
S. attendees.The middle left and right
photographs should have been
swapped to correspond with the
caption. Our apologies for the error.
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Make use of the RICO package
sent to general managers - it
has all the information you
need to know about our Rl
organization - and more.
(what's in a word)-
Brazil general manager Teun de
Boon takes up a new position as
manager of the local bankTilburg.
France Paris has a new deputy
general manager in Frans Cuppen.
Frans comes from the market core
team other corporates in Utrecht.
Germany has a new colleague in
Frans van Hövell tot Westerflier
as senior account manager F&A.
Manfred Schneider has been
promoted general manager of the
Frankfurt Branch.
India has new managing directors
in Ashok Kapur, also coördinator
of the managing board and Anton
Nillesen. Anton comes from the
former Rabobank Deutschland.
Indonesia Twan Geurts has been
appointed senior project manager
Agri Project Finance.Twan comes
from Utrecht Branch.
Netherlands Barbara Carroll has
been appointed global
administration officer investment
banking. She will be a member of
the global management team
administration as well as the
management team investment
banking and will be located in
both Utrecht and London.Within
Utrecht branch Jan Bausch has
been appointed teamleader of the
market core team other
corporates. Jan comes from the
aerospace desk. Rolf Michon also
joins this team as account
manager. Roland van Limburg
Stirum has been appointed senior
manager with the export finance
aerospace desk. Ronald comes
from account managent financial
institutions and before was
stationed in Milan.Agri Project
Finance has a new colleague in
Hans van de Weerd Jr. Private
banking has been strengthened
with senior advisor Carola
Oomen, who comes from the
Trust. Also Marjan Schoemaker
changed jobs and left Rabo
Securities to take up a position as
account manager F&A.Carolien
van Eggermond left the bank.
Rectificatiomas mentioned last
month Engel Koolhaas has not
been appointed with agri project
finance, but with the project
finance team within corporate
finance.
Singapore has new colleagues in
Chen Cheah Seng and Charley
Seliang as senior manager treasury,
respectively manager at the
treasury's sales department. Charley
rejoined the bank, as he was already
working in Singapore and Indonesia
some time ago. Catherine Sew
Wan has been appointed head of
risk credit with Rabobank Asia Ltd.
UK Paul Harvey has been
appointed head of central bank
sales for global short-term interest
rate and FX products. Global fixed
income products has a new
business manager in Shane
Mul vihill. New head of the global
equity derivatives group's product
management is Masahiko Inui Rick
Llewellyn and Greville Billyard
join the syndications department
within corporate finance as
associate director and deputy
manager - agency respectively.
Franz Maier takes up a position as
director global market risk control
within the global equity derivates
group. Capital markets has a new
colleague in David Brown and
Jason van Praagh is the new head
of the Yen and USD Bloc of global
short-term interest rate products.
The asset swaps/credit derivatives
desk have a new co-head in George
Christopoulos.
USA In the Chicago office
ScottTaylor has been appointed
manager APFT US and Canada.
Before Scott was account manager
F&A in Dallas. In New York Arjan
Breure joined the M&A/corporate
advisory services department.
Corporate finance has a new
colleague in Scott Rickman as
associate in the private placement
group. New in the treasury
department are Franco Marisco as
foreign exchange trader and
Denise Felice as money market
trader. San Francisco's Bill Bishop
left the bank.
Here's a very brief glossary of
some of the terms you'll be
hearing increasingly as the
international equity brokerage
people start arriving in the
bank.
broker: intermediary who
brings together two parties
and enables them to enter into
a contract. Earns a brokerage
for the service which is either a
percentage of the contract
value or a fixed tariff. Brokers
are usually called in because
they have specialized
knowledge of a sector or
market.
equities: stocks and shares in
publicly listed companies on
any exchange in the world.
franchise: an area in which
you have acknowledged
expertise, such as F&A.
market-maker: a dealer in
securities who undertakes to
buy and sell these at prices and
time announced in advance. In
addition, they attempt to make
a profit by dealing in securities
as principals as well as acting
as agents working for
commission.
Chinese wall: a notional
information barrier between
parts of a business, especially
between the market-making
and broking parts of an
investment banking activity.
primary and secondary
business: primary means new
issues, either for existing listed
companies or for companies
going public. Secondary is the
day-to-day trading.
Masthead
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