BNP Paribas Appoints Carl Mason as Head of Equity Derivatives Strategy for the Americas

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.

SOURCE: BNP Paribas

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