ern banks, saidCNBC. Details of the LIAs $53bn investment portfolio reveal it had lost substantial sums through its investments in Societe Generale, Dresdner and Credit Suisse. It had also been hit through its stakes in BP, Royal Bank of Scotland and Greek companies, reported The Australian. In total 7%

in the Loans Syndications group where he focused on the structuring and distribution of project finance transactions. In 2004, Mr. Rodriguez joined Dresdner's Global Loans team in London. During this time, he was instrumental in establishing the firm's Infrastructure Finance practice and led the extensio

sdner Bank in Germany in 1995 then merged with US boutique investment bank Wasserstein Perella in 2000. It then came under Commerzbank in 2008 when Dresdner and Commerzbank merged, before being bought by RHJ International the following year. Kleinwort Benson hopes Ms Tennant will bring her experience of