BNP Paribas is pleased to announce the appointment of Carl Mason as Head
of Equity Derivatives strategy for the Americas. Carl will oversee the
Equity Derivatives Strategy team based in the US which is responsible
for producing cutting edge derivatives trading ideas and analysis for
BNP Paribas’ institutional clients. Carl
reports to Aaron Ford, Head of Institutional Sales, North America.
Carl recently joined BNP Paribas from Morgan Stanley where he was Head
of US equity derivatives strategy. Prior to that, he spent 3 years at
Deutsche Bank as a senior US options strategist and also spent 5 years
at UBS in equity derivatives strategy.
Commenting on his appointment Aaron Ford said, “Carl’s
appointment is timely as we continue to aggressively grow our
institutional client business with our long only effort and our recent
acquisition of Bank of America’s prime
brokerage unit. Carl’s insight, expertise, and
leadership coupled with our award winning derivatives sales and trading
teams will help BNP Paribas deliver the best derivatives strategy
product in the marketplace.”
In 2008, BNP Paribas was named ‘Structured
Products House of the Year’ by Risk magazine
and in 2007, was named ‘Equity Derivatives
House of the Year’ also by Risk magazine‘.
North American awards include ‘North American
Structured Products House of the Year’ by
Structured Products Magazine and ‘Best Equity
Derivatives house in North America’ by Global
Finance magazine.
About BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking
BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment banking division (http://cib.bnpparibas.com/)
has almost 16,000 employees, deployed in 53 countries around the world.
BNP Paribas CIB excels in three fundamental sectors in particular:
Derivatives - it is one of the leading global players in rates, credit,
forex, commodity and equity derivatives
Capital markets - it is amongst the top ten Euro houses for both ECM and
DCM (bond issues, securitization, convertibles and shares).
Structured finance - it is amongst the world leaders for acquisition,
export, project and commodity finance.
About BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas (www.bnpparibas.com)
is a European leader in global banking and financial services and is one
of the 4 strongest banks in the world according to Standard & Poor’s.
The group is present in over 85 countries, with more than 168,000
employees, including 129,500 in Europe. The group holds key positions in
three major segments: Corporate and Investment Banking, Asset Management
& Services and Retail Banking. Present throughout Europe in all of its
business lines, the bank’s two domestic
markets in retail banking are France and Italy. BNP Paribas also has a
significant presence in the United States and strong positions in Asia
and the emerging markets.
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