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Press Release
LONDON, 5TH AUGUST 2003
SG CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANKING CONTINUES TO
STRENGTHEN ITS GLOBAL PORTFOLIO TRADING
CAPABILITY IN LONDON
SG CIB are pleased to announce the appointment of Jutta Nieminen to the portfolio trading
group in London. She will be Head of Global Program Trading Sales for Northern Europe,
complementing the existing global team of 26 sales and trading professionals located in six
centres around the world.
Jutta joins us from Instinet Europe Ltd, where she has been working since 2001 as Senior
Account Manager in equity trading products for the Scandinavian and Dutch clients.
Previous to that she worked at Svenska Handelsbanken responsible for FX and money
market sales to Finnish institutional clients.
The hiring of Jutta further strengthens SG CIB's commitment to a business that has also
seen the recent arrivals of Luis Camacho & Brendan McMahon. Luis is a Director of
Program Trading Sales, focusing on promoting our International business to North
American accounts. Brendan has joined as a Director of US sales where he will be
responsible for marketing our Domestic US Program Trading to US institutions.
Peter Lewis, Head of Client Trading Group, said, “SG CIB understands the importance of a
comprehensive program trading service in meeting the needs of our institutional clients
and this appointment along with our recent hires this year, expands our capability in this
crucial area.
“Global Program Trading is a core and integral part of the Client Trading Group, which was
established last year in order to enhance our trading, sales-trading, market-making and
execution services for our institutional clients.”
--ends-For further information please contact:
SG CIB
Peter Lewis, Head of Client Trading Group
Melody Jeannin, Head of Communications, UK
Gareth Peel, Head of Client Trading Group Marketing
tel +44 20 7522 1276
tel +44 20 7676 6804
tel +44 20 7762 5487
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Société Générale Group
Société Générale is one of the largest financial services group in the eurozone. The Group
employs more than 80,000 people worldwide in three key businesses:
- Retail Banking : Société Générale serves 14,7 million retail customers worldwide.
- Asset Management & Private Banking : Société Générale ranks third in the eurozone in
terms of assets under management (EUR 270 billion in 2002).
- Corporate & Investment Banking : SG CIB is the third largest bank in the eurozone based
on net banking income.
Société Générale is included in the four major socially responsible investment indices.
www.socgen.com
SG CIB
SG CIB is the Corporate and Investment Banking arm of the Société Générale Group.
Present in over 50 countries and with expertise in capital markets, advisory and origination
services, structured finance and commercial banking, SG CIB builds innovative, integrated
financial solutions for its corporate, institutional and public sector clients. www.sgcib.com
Client Trading Group
The Client Trading Group encompasses the Sales Trading, Agency Execution Trading,
Facilitation Trading, Program Trading and Quantitative Analysis departments at SG CIB.
Covering 90% of the total market capitalisation of developed Europe and providing a multilingual sales trading capacity with primary centres in New York, London and Paris. Bespoke
trading and order routing systems utilise a fully integrated, front-to-back trading
application which handles 94% of all order volume using true Straight Through Processing.
SG CIB can connect clients via FIX or through our website www.sgprogramtrading.com.
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