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An informative guide for high net-worth individuals on the range of service providers that are available
May 2008
by Lee Oliver
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UniCredit Markets and Investment Banking has hired Xavier Alexandre as its head of e-commerce and electronic trading for FICC. The bank has yet to finalize the reporting lines for this new position. Alexandre will be based in London.
A colleague of mine over from New York is used to seeing his deals close in a couple of weeks. He gets here to work on a Chinese deal and discovers the credit committee of the acquirer meets precisely once a month and won’t deviate from that schedule. Four months later we’re still waiting on a decision
Business can happen at a different pace in Asia, as a banker at a US firm working on buyouts in Hong Kong relates
