Sector developments and company hires

Fintech lender hires SRT pro
European consumer credit platform auxmoney has appointed Boudewijn Dierick md of auxmoney Investments, a newly established investment arm of the company based in Dublin. Reporting to auxmoney cfo Daniel Drummer, Dierick will lead the local operations and drive the expansion of auxmoney’s international capital markets footprint.

He joins from BNP Paribas, where he was md and head of ABS and covered bond structuring. Before that, he worked at UBS and Moody’s.

In other recruitment news…

EMEA
AlbaCore Capital Group has strengthened its team with a number of new appointments to support the growth of the firm and new investment strategies. The most recent addition to the team is Jaime Echevarria from Marathon Asset Management. Echevarria has joined as director on the investment team and is a specialist in European corporate credit.

Alex Walkey also recently joined the investment team as vp from Canyon Capital Advisors, along with associates Anastasia Ashcheulova from The Carlyle Group and Erwan Pincet from EQT Partners. These hires will work directly with founding partner and portfolio manager Bill Ammons and md and deputy portfolio manager Deborah Cohen Malka.

Tikehau Capital has recruited Christoph Zens as head of its CLO business, based in London. Zens will assume the role from Debra Anderson, who will retire in 2Q21. He joins from Commerzbank, where he spent more than a decade, most recently as an investment director within the debt fund management team. Since launching its CLO strategy in 2014, Tikehau Capital has completed circa €2bn in new issuances across five CLOs and launched its sixth CLO warehouse.

North America
Strategic Risk Solutions has appointed Anna Pereira to the newly-created position of svp, ILS, based in its Bermuda office. Effective from 1 March, she will join the ILS and fund administration team led by md Jonathan Reiss. Pereira is currently a director and co-founder of MANA Consulting, having previously worked at Horseshoe Group, HSBC, Chubb Financial Solutions, Quanta Re and Everest Re.