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Published on: 9/2/2008
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Vinod Aachi has been appointed the Global Head of Structuring.This is a newly created position with responsibility for further developing structuring into a world class value added function.Aachi will be a member of the Financial Markets Management Committee and report directly to Lenny Feder, Group Head of Financial Markets.
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Aachi joins from Deutsche Bank where he was previously responsible for all structuring for Asia, based out of Hong Kong and Singapore.He joined in 1997 in their Hong Kong Global Relative Value Group, which structured derivative products across Asia ex-Japan.Over his 11 years at Deutsche he helped build a market leading capability in structuring, covering a wide range of products including fixed income, credit, currency, equity, commodity and hybrid derivatives.Deal structuring responsibilities included idea generation, pricing, co-ordination with trading desk, sales, credit, legal and regulatory clearances.In 2002, Aachi was promoted to lead the division.
Prior to this, Aachi was a Non-Deliverable Forwards Swap Trader at JP Morgan in Singapore, a Fixed Income Research Analyst with ICICI Securities in Mumbai and a Systems Executive for TATA-IBM in Mumbai.
"I am delighted to be joining Standard Chartered Bank, and I look forward to working in a world class financial markets team," said Aachi."I will be kicking off with a team of over 50 people, and I am very confident that we will rapidly increase the value for our clients in every asset class."
"Aachi has a fantastic track record and is a natural fit in our culture,' said Lenny.