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The following financial services industry appointments were announced on Nov. 24, linked where possible to personal profiles on LinkedIn. To inform us of other job changes, please e-mail moves@thomsonreuters.com.

BNP PARIBAS

BNP Paribas Securities said it had appointed Manishi Raychaudhuri as India head of equity research. He was earlier with UBS as country strategist.

TULLETT PREBON PLC

Tullett Prebon said it had appointed Steph Duckworth chief operating officer, after his predecessor left the world’s second-largest broker between banks earlier this year.

SUN LIFE FINANCIAL INC
The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc announced its Employee Benefits Group has appointed Christopher Quinn as vice president and chief operating officer and Drew Niziak as executive vice president and director of sales. Quinn was most recently vice president and chief operating officer of Sun Life Financial Distributors Inc, while Niziak was vice president of distribution.

AMHERST SECURITIES GROUP
Amherst Securities Group named Timothy Dooley head of nonagency RMBS trading. Dooley previously worked at Lehman Brothers as a senior vice president of Mortgage Trading.

PAUL HASTINGS
Luc Despins, 48, a restructuring and bankruptcy lawyer, has joined Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP as chair of its global restructuring practice in the New York office. He previously was a senior partner in the financial restructuring group at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, where he has represented creditors in Lehman Brothers, Enron, and Refco bankruptcies.

AQUILINE CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC
Deborah Bernstein and Jason Rotman have joined Aquiline Capital Partners LLC, a New York-based private equity firm investing in financial services, as investment professionals.