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Credit Suisse Group announced that Peter Antico will join as managing director and head North America rates within the bank’s fixed income department, effective January 1, 2012. He will report into Jon Kinol, global head of rates for Credit Suisse.

Antico brings more than two decades of experience in interest rate products. He comes to Credit Suisse from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was most recently head of G10 and Latin American FX trading. -RTTNews

As part of a planned reorganization of its investment bank under a new structure in 2012, Guiseppe Monarchi, current head of European M&A, will become co-head, alongside Wenceslao Bunge, of the group overseeing the real estate, consumer, retail, healthcare, technology, media and telecoms sectors. He will also become co-head of TMT with Philippe Cerf, in addition to his existing M&A role.

The energy and industrials corporate finance groups will also be reorganised, under ex-Merrill Lynch bankers Jonathan Grundy and Mark Echlin, while the financial institutions group will be managed by Eric Richard and Carl-George Bauer-Schlichtegroll.

Stuart Upcraft, head of UK M&A, will assume the role of co-head of UK investment banking, alongside Sebastian Grigg, who has led the business since 2007.

All the appointments will be effective on January 1, 2012.

Credit Suisse also named Chris Corson and Todd Sandoz to lead lead its new global currencies and emerging markets group, which merged the firm’s currency and fixed-income businesses.

The bank also named Ben Shooter as head of global sales for the new unit. -Global Banking News

Credit Suisse Group has announced that it has named Brian Yoon as its new head of Asia-Pacific fixed income, effective December 2011.

Yoon will be based in Hong Kong and will replace Carsten Stoehr. He will also continue in his role as the region’s head of emerging market trading. -Global Banking News

Credit Suisse Group has named Dereke Seeto as head of flow financing in Asia-Pacific.

Seeto, who was previously company’s head of prime services for Australia, would help provide services such as stock loans, swaps and synthetic products to hedge funds.

Seeto is moving from Sydney to Hong Kong and will report to Matt Pecot, head of prime services in Asia Pacific for the bank. -HedgeWorld Daily News

Credit Suisse Group has named David Miller as new head of global leveraged finance capital markets and underwriting. He replaces Tom Newberry.

Miller will report to Phil DeSantis and Eraj Shirvani, co-heads of global credit products. -Global Banking News

Credit Suisse AG announced the appointment of Antonio Viana-Baptista as chief executive officer of Credit Suisse in Iberia. He assumes his role from Fernando Abril-Martorell.

As CEO of Credit Suisse in Iberia, Viana-Baptista will execute integrated banking strategy to deliver the bank’s wide expertise for the benefit of clients, through the private banking, investment banking and asset management divisions in Spain and Portugal. He will be based in Madrid and reports to Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad, chief executive officer of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Viana-Baptista joins Credit Suisse following a distinguished career in the telecommunications and banking sectors as well as in strategic consultancy. He has spent over a decade in a number of senior management roles at Telefonica, seven years at Banco Portugues de Investimento (BPI) as an executive board member and was a partner in the Iberia office of McKinsey & Co. Most recently, he served as a non-executive director on the boards of telecommunications of Sao Paulo, Research in Motion, O2 and NH Hoteles. He is currently a non-executive director for Semapa and Jeronimo Martins. -ENP Newswire

Credit Suisse Group has announced that it has named Rob Jesudason to the new position of head of financial institutions coverage across emerging markets within its investment banking division. Nicolo Salsano and Simon Yuan were also named as co-heads of the Asia Pacific region’s financial institutions group. -Global Banking News

Credit Suisse Group also announced that Mike Dryden was appointed to co-head the securitised products portfolio solutions and residential mortgage finance and securitisation team. Jay Kim, who joins from from Barclays, will head of the unit and expand the business of securitised assets. -Global Banking News

Credit Suisse AG announced that Jan Stuart and Andy Shaw will join Credit Suisse’s fixed income research department as head of energy research, and head of base metals research, respectively.

Stuart will be based in New York, effective September 1, while Shaw will be based in Singapore and join in late July. Both will report to Ric Deverell, head of commodities research.

Stuart joins from Macquarie Securities Group, where he was most recently the co-head of global commodities research and global oil economist and responsible for covering the oil, gas and energy commodity sectors within global equity research. Prior to that, he was the global oil economist at UBS Securities and has also held research positions with Fimat USA and ABN Amro.

Shaw joins from BHP Billiton, where he held the position of manager of business analysis. In this capacity, he managed market and industry analytical studies and led a specialist team responsible for market analysis of China across BHPB’s commodity spectrum. -PR Newswire

Credit Suisse Group announced that Roger Lehman has joined as managing director and head of commercial mortgage-backed securities research. He will join Credit Suisse on August 1.

Lehman will be responsible for research and analysis that will support the bank’s re-entry into CMBS origination as well as its secondary trading desk. He will report to Dale Westhoff, global head of securitized products research.

Lehman joins Credit Suisse from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was most recently co-head of structured finance research. -PR Newswire

Credit Suisse Group announced that it has named Ray Farris as chief strategist for fixed income in Asia Pacific. Farris is to take up the new position while retaining his existing role as global head of foreign exchange strategy. He will move to Singapore from London.

Credit Suisse Group has also announced that it has expanded its equities research team and appointed five new research analysts to cover the banking sector.

Carla Antunes da Silva will join the Swiss banking company as managing director.

Amit Goel will join as vice president.

Ignacio Cerezo Olmos will join as a director responsible for Southern European banks coverage.

Andrea Unzueta will join as an associate.

Maxence Gouvello will become a director.

Nick Gough and Justine Shih will join as directors on the specialist sales desk. -Global Banking News

Credit Suisse has appointed Mark Burrows as its vice chairman of investment banking across the Asia Pacific. He will be based in Sydney.

Burrows’ investment banking experience spans 40 years. He was formerly chairman of Lazard in Australia. -Malaysia Economic News

Credit Suisse Group named Francois Essertel as its new head of private banking in France. He replaces Herve de Montlivault. Essertel will facilitate the Zurich-based bank’s multi-shore approach at its French private bank, offering banking services to wealthy clients. He joined Credit Suisse in 2008. -Global Banking News

Credit Suisse Group has appointed James Hong as the private banking CEO Hong Kong, effective from September 1, 2010. He will report to Marcel Kreis, head of private banking Asia-Pacific.

In this role, Hong will oversee Credit Suisse’s private banking franchise in Hong Kong, focusing on driving client delivery and service.

Hong was most recently at UBS Global Asset Management, where he was the chairman of Greater China from 2004 to 2009.

Credit Suisse Group has named Frederick Terrell as the new vice chairman for the investment banking department, effective June 1, 2010.

Mr. Terrell will be based in New York and will report Jim Amine, managing director and co-head of the global investment banking department at Credit Suisse.

Prior to rejoining Credit Suisse, Mr. Terrell was managing partner and CEO of Provender Capital Group, which he co-founded in 1998. He served at New York Life Insurance, as chairman of the investment committee. He also served at Carver Bancorp as chairman of the board. -Datamonitor NewsWire

Credit Suisse Group has re-opened its brokerage business in Warsaw.

The brokerage team will be led by Tomasz Bardzilowski, who joins as a managing director and head of the Polish equities business.

Bardzilowski joins from UniCredit corporate and investment banking in Poland, where he was most recently deputy chief executive and head of central and eastern European equities. He had previously worked in Credit Suisse’s Warsaw office in equity research until 2003.

Bardzilowski is joined by Jarek Tomczynski, who was previously deputy head of global equity sales at UniCredit CAIB Securities in London.

Tomczynski previously worked in Europe, Middle East and Africa sales at Credit Suisse in London.

Grzegorz Kolodziejczyk joins Credit Suisse as a director in sales trading and execution, from BZ WBK. He also previously worked at Credit Suisse.

Jan Koch will join Credit Suisse in August as a director in sales trading and execution from ING Securities in Poland.

Marta Jezewska will join Credit Suisse in August as a vice-president in equity research. She is joining from BRE Bank Securities.

Krzysztof Kaczmarczyk will join Credit Suisse in July as a vice-president in equity research from TPSA Group where he was head of corporate strategy and business development.

Credit Suisse announced that Chris Young will join the company as managing director and head of the takeover defense practice within the mergers and acquisitions group in the investment bank, effective June 1st.

Until May 2010, Mr. Young will remain as the director of M&A and proxy fight at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).

While at ISS, Mr. Young was responsible for analyzing contentious M&A transactions, proxy fights and corporate governance issues and providing proxy voting and tender offer recommendations for ISS institutional investor clients. He also helped to facilitate a constructive dialogue between ISS institutional investor clients and senior executives and directors of public companies in the US and Europe. Prior to ISS, he was a member of the investment banking group at Bear Stearns and the M&A group at Sullivan & Cromwell. -PR Newswire

Credit Suisse Group has appointed Aditya Mishra as head of its operations in New Delhi, reporting to Puneet Matta, head of wealth management for Credit Suisse in India. The appointment is effective immediately.

Mishra will focus on serving wealthy individuals, families and corporations, who are increasingly seeking a more sophisticated approach in terms of asset allocation as well as gaining access to a global platform for specialised financial services and products.

Mishra was previously a managing partner at AM Advisors. -Asia Pulse

Credit Suisse announced the appointment of Edmond Carton as UHNWI segment head for the Middle East and Indian subcontinent, effective immediately.

In this role, Edmond will head a team of investment partners located in Bahrain, Dubai, Geneva, London and Zurich. He will be responsible providing financial services to the wealthiest individuals, families and family offices in the Middle East and will be based in Geneva.

Credit Suisse Group announced the appointment of Atsushi Mizuno, former member of the policy board of the Bank of Japan, as vice chairman, fixed income for Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Mizuno, along with recently appointed Bunt Ghosh, will play a key role in developing senior client relationships as well as providing strategic input for the development of Credit Suisse’s fixed income department in Asia Pacific. He will report to Carsten Stoehr, head of fixed income, Asia Pacific.

Mr. Mizuno was a member of the policy board, the highest policymaking body at Japan’s central bank, from December 2004 to December 2009. He is known for being the first policy board member to join directly from a foreign financial institution in Japan and re-joins Credit Suisse after completing a full term with the Bank of Japan.

Credit Suisse Group has appointed David Livingstone as new chief executive for its business in Australia. He will be based in Sydney.

Livingstone, who currently leads Credit Suisse’s emerging markets and East Asian mergers and acquisitions business, will lead the Australian businesses from February 2010. He will report to the Asia Pacific chief executive, Kai Nargolwala.

Livingstone, who is also a managing director in Credit Suisse’s European investment banking department, will replace David Trude.

Livingstone worked at HSBC and Goldman Sachs before joining Credit Suisse in 2007. -AAP Newsfeed

Credit Suisse Group announced that Michael Ingelog will join the company as chief executive officer of the Nordic region.

Michael will report to Eric Varvel, CEO of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and joins in January 2010. He will initially be based in London and will relocate to the Nordic region over time. He will be a member of the EMEA Operating Committee.

As CEO of the Nordic region, Michael will be responsible for the company’s business in the Nordic region across private banking, investment banking and asset management divisions.