Company hires and sector developments

Bank bulks up

Macquarie has appointed Carolyn Porretta md, structured finance and real estate, based in London. She was previously head of portfolio services, investment portfolio management at AIG, where she was responsible for managing structured products and CRE debt in EMEA.

RA hires new SF head

Scope Ratings has hired David Bergman as its new head of structured finance, succeeding Guillaume Jolivet, who becomes md of the rating agency and joins the management board with Torsten Hinrichs, coo of the Scope Group. Bergman will be based in Milan and was previously deputy head of structured finance at the firm, having joined in 2017 after working at Moody’s for over ten years.