Headline: Deutsche’s merry-go-round Source: Euromoney Date: July 2001 Author: Jules Evans
Just weeks after Mitchell’s lieutenant and global head of debt capital markets Grant Kvalheim resigned to join Barclays Capital, Deutsche appointed Jorge Calderon to replace him. It is a strange appointment. Calderon only joined the bank in March last year, as co-head of asset-backed securities in the US with his long-term colleague Phil Weingord. The two had built an exceptionally successful franchise at CSFB, and had replicated it well at Deutsche, taking the bank from nowhere to top five in US ABS underwriting within a year. Stranger still is that Calderon and Weingord left CSFB because they were unhappy with plans to integrate all fixed-income products under one umbrella, which would have meant a loss of power in an institution built on political intrigue. Having left to retain their independence from the rest of fixed income at one institution, it is ironic to say the least that one of them is now in charge of just that at another. |