Fisher Joins Societe Generale as Head of U.S. Interest Rates
Strategy
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Societe
Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has named
Mary Beth Fisher as Managing
Director and Head of U.S. Interest Rates Strategy. As head of
rates strategy, Fisher will be responsible for directing U.S. rates
strategy and creating the U.S. rates research product for the bank
and its clients.
Fisher's appointment supports the firm's strategy to continue to
develop its U.S. fixed income dollar origination, sales and trading
platform in order to provide its clients with a fully global
capital markets product offering.
Fisher has approximately 15 years of experience in fixed income
research. She joins from BNP Paribas where she was a Senior
Strategist, Interest Rates and Government Policy; has held
similar positions at UBS, Bear Stearns and BB&T; and has worked
at the Federal Reserve in Washington,
DC. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from
Duke University and a B.A. from
DePauw University.
Based in New York, Fisher
reports to the Head of U.S. Research, Stephen Gallagher.
Societe Generale
Societe Generale is one of the largest European financial
services groups. Based on a diversified universal banking model,
the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of
sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship
banking, recognised on its markets, close to clients, chosen for
the quality and commitment of its teams.
Its 160,000 employees based in 77 countries accompany more than
33 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis. Societe
Generale' teams offer advice and services to individual, corporate
and institutional customers in three core businesses:
- Retail banking in France with
the Societe Generale branch network, Credit du Nord and
Boursorama
- International retail banking, with a presence in Central and
Eastern Europe and Russia, in the Mediterranean basin, in
Sub-Saharan Africa, in Asia and in
the French Overseas Territories
- Corporate and investment banking with a global expertise in
investment banking, financing and global markets.
Societe Generale is also a significant player in specialised
financing and insurance, private banking, asset management and
securities services.
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investment indices: FTSE4Good and ASPI.
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At the core of Societe Generale's universal banking business
model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified
and leading player with nearly 12,000 professionals present in 33
countries across Europe, the
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worldwide expertise in investment banking, global
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(M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset
& liability management), as well as quality capital raising
solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing
and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of
foreign exchange and rates derivatives.
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opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated
global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets
(equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives),
as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of
execution and forward looking research across asset classes.
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