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BNP Paribas announced Jean-Laurent Bonnafe has been appointed chief executive officer. Bonnafe’s appointment is effective as of December 1, 2011. -Global Banking News

Georges Chodron de Courcel, Philippe Bordenave and Francois Villeroy de Galhau were also appointed as chief operating officers (COO).

Chodron de Courcel oversees the business activities entrusted to two deputy COOs: Alain Papiasse, head of corporate and investment banking, and Jacques d’Estais, head of investment solutions, who also oversees BNP Paribas personal finance and international retail banking.

Bordenave oversees group finance, strategic advisory, development, ALM treasury and ITP (information technology and processes) which includes IT systems, procurement and real-estate management.

Villeroy de Galhau oversees the group’s retail activities in its domestic markets (French retail banking in France, BNP Paribas Fortis in Belgium, BNL in Italy and BGL BNP Paribas in Luxembourg) and associated business activities (Cortal Consors, Arval, BNP Paribas leasing solutions). He also oversees retail banking transversal missions, which are managed by Yves Martrenchar and which continue to work with other group retail banking activities. -Datamonitor NewsWire

BNP Paribas announced that it has named Laurent Couraudon as country head for China, effective October 1, 2011.

Couraudon will be based in Beijing and replaces Francois Cristofari.

Couraudon is currently the company’s country head for Russia, where he focused on building its corporate and investment banking business, as well as strengthening its retail banking business. -Global Banking News

BNP Paribas announced that Fred Fiddle has joined to lead the bank’s strategic equity and convertible origination business in the Americas.

In this newly created position, Fiddle will help lead BNP Paribas’ efforts to grow the Americas convertible origination and strategic equity businesses. He will be based in New York and report to Pierre Lapomme, head of equity capital markets, Americas and to Fabrice Hugon, head of structured equity sales, Americas.

Before joining BNP Paribas, Fiddle had a 23 year career with Merrill Lynch & Co. where he was head of equity linked origination for the Americas from 2001 -2009, after managing global equity linked sales and trading. -Market Wire

BNP Paribas announced the appointment of Lachlan Tracey as head of acquisition and leveraged finance Australia. He is based in Sydney and reports to Didier Mahout, CEO Australia and New Zealand and Martin McGovern, head of acquisition and leveraged finance, Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.

Tracey has over 15 years of experience in acquisition and leveraged finance, in Sydney, London and New York. This includes senior roles at UBS, RBS and Merrill Lynch. He began his finance career at Bankers Trust in New York. -ENP Newswire

BNP Paribas brought on Timothy Bitsberger, a former Treasury Department official and Freddie Mac treasurer, to create and lead an official institutions coverage team for the Americas. Bitsberger was Freddie’s treasurer from 2006 until 2008. Before that, he worked for four years at the Treasury Department, first as deputy assistant secretary and then as assistant secretary for financial markets.

Bitsberger, who joined the firm as a managing director, reports to Veronique Ormezzano, head of official institutions coverage in Paris, as well as to Malley. Bitsberger to organize the Americas official institutions group, in close cooperation with the Latin America regional head, Louis Bazire. BNP announced that it had hired Mike Albanese as a managing director in its financial institutions group. He will report to Malley and will cover insurers and reinsurers. Albanese was head of business development for the Americas at Swiss. Before that, he held senior-level positions at Deutsche Bank and AM Best. -Investment Dealers Digest

BNP Paribas announced the appointment of Peter Albano as head of investor relationship management for hedge funds and institutions, Americas (IRM.)

Albano is based in New York and reports locally to Chris Innes, head of equity sales, North America and Kip Testwuide, head of fixed income origination and distribution, Americas. He also reports globally to Talbot Stark, global head of investor relationship management for hedge funds and institutions.

Albano joins BNP Paribas with over twenty years of international capital markets experience, most recently with The Royal Bank of Scotland as head of financial institutions, Americas.

Robert Earl also joins BNP Paribas as a managing director focusing on hedge funds. He reports to Chris Lane, head of the Americas hedge fund relationship management team.

Earl has 19 years of capital markets experience focusing on institutional client relationships.

Chantale Goyette also joins the IRM team as a relationship manager for Canada.

Goyette joined BNP Paribas in 2007 and has since served in fixed income rates and structured credit sales positions. -Market Wire

BNP Paribas announced that Keith Murray and David Sommer have joined to run new leveraged finance teams. They will be based in New York.

Murray was most recently a managing director at Merrill Lynch Capital, where he ran the Northeast sponsor finance team.

Sommer was a managing director in the financial sponsor and leveraged finance groups at JPMorgan Chase and CIBC World Markets. -American Banker

BNP Paribas has announced that Chris Innes has joined to head equity sales for the Americas in New York. He replaces Aaron Ford.

Innes will oversee sales for the Americas for stocks, equity derivatives, prime brokerage and convertibles.

Innes, a former executive of Bank of America, is also to rejoin the prime brokerage group that he used to oversee when he with Bank of America.

BNP Paribas announced the appointment of Trevor Cheung as Hong Kong and China property coverage head. Mr. Cheung is one of the first generation of Hong Kong property analysts, tracing his career back to 1993, when he was with research house CLSA as a property analyst and deputy head of research. Mr. Cheung has many years of experience in financial markets research, having worked in sell-side research, corporate finance and as corporate finance director at a mainland-based property development company. -South China Morning Post

BNP Paribas appointed Johnson Tan as the chief executive of its Singapore brokerage, BNP Paribas Capital (Singapore), as well as regional head of corporate finance for Southeast Asia. Tan was previously a managing director of corporate finance for Macquarie Group Ltd. Tan is based in Singapore and will report to Christian De Charnace, chief executive of corporate finance, Asia-Pacific.-Borsa Italiana spa

BNP Paribas announced 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.-Business Wire

BNP Paribas appointed Benjamin Jacquard as global head of structured credit and arbitrage trading. Based in London, he reports to Guillaume Amblard, global head of fixed income trading. Before Calyon, where he was in charge of the structured credit business, Jacquard built or managed exotic credit trading and structuring teams at Bank of America and Crédit Agricole SA.-Daily Deal/The Deal

BNP Paribas announced the appointment of Bulent Baygun as head of the interest rate strategy team in the U.S. He is based in New York and reports globally to Cyril Beuzit, head of interest rate strategy, and regionally to Christian Mundigo, head of interest rate foreign exchange (IRFX) trading in the Americas. Before joining BNP Paribas, Bulent worked at Barclays Capital, first as head of U.S. fixed income research and strategy and more recently as head of global quantitative strategy. -Business Wire

BNP Paribas appointed Etienne Barel as head of private bank relationship management. Mr. Barel will join the corporate and investment banking core business with effect from January, to head the newly created private bank relationship management function for equity derivatives and fixed income.-South China Morning Post

BNP Paribas announced the appointment of Ian H. Fay as managing director and head of the energy & natural resources Americas team within corporate finance. Based in New York, Mr. Fay will manage the energy & natural resources Americas team within corporate finance, leveraging the oil & gas and metals & mining franchises of BNP Paribas.

Mr. Fay will report to Elsa Berry, head of corporate finance North America, with indirect reporting to Bruno Villard, corporate finance’s global head of energy and Hubert Willems, corporate finance’s global head of metals & mining. Ian joins the firm from RBC Capital Markets, where he was a managing director in the M&A group since 2003. -Business Wire