People moves and key promotions in securitisation

This week’s round-up of securitisation job swaps sees ING promoting its global head of balance sheet distribution. Elsewhere, Orrick strengthens its structured finance group in New York.

ING has appointed Gertjan van Toorn as global head of the loan distribution group within its wholesale banking capital markets and advisory unit. He was previously global head of balance sheet distribution, leading a team responsible for end-to-end secured funding, capital relief and securitisation solutions. Van Toorn began his career as a management trainee at ABN AMRO in 1996.

 Meanwhile, Banco Sabadell has promoted Alvaro Celorio Diez to vp in its structured finance team, based in its Mexico City office. Celorio Diez joined the bank in 2016 as an analyst in its corporate banking division and has been on the corporate and investment banking infrastructure team since 2019.

Additionally, Madrid-headquartered Bankinter has promoted Pablo Martínez Mayo to vp for structured finance. Martínez Mayo joined the bank in late 2020 and is promoted from the role of director of structured finance credit risk and international finance. He previously spent over eight years with Banco Santander.

Lloyds has appointed Laura McGill as business manager for structured finance and syndicate, within its corporate and institutional division. McGill is based in Birmingham and transitions from her role as associate director for strategic debt finance asset management, after 10 years focusing on leveraged finance. She joined the bank in 2009.

Fintech industry veteran Erik DiGiacomo has joined Webonise subsidiary Olympus, a developer of software for CLO, debt and private equity management, as general manager based in New York. DiGiacomo left his role as president at Phaxis in July, after two years with the staffing, recruiting and consulting business, and previously held senior roles at Allvue Systems, Broadridge Consulting and Virtusa. 

Orion Mountainspring has rejoined Orrick’s structured finance group in New York, having previously spent several years working as an attorney at the firm. He returns as a partner, after most recently serving in the same capacity at Chapman and Cutler.

S&P has promoted Angha Gupta to senior analyst on its US RMBS team, based in Toronto, Canada. Gupta is promoted from the role of associate, after two years with the rating agency, having previously worked on the mortgage teams at Scotiabank and KingSett Capital.

Solutus Advisors has appointed Edward Register as head of servicing, responsible for managing the delivery of loan servicing to the firm’s European and UK clients. Based in London, he was previously director at Levance Consulting and worked at DBRS Morningstar, Fitch, Trimont Real Estate Advisors and JPMorgan before that.

Finally, private market investment platform Yieldstreet has bolstered the structured credit capabilities of its Prism Fund with the appointment of Prytania Asset Management as sub-advisor – allowing the fund to invest in structured credit opportunities, such as CLOs. In addition, Yieldstreet has elected two new directors to the fund, including cio Ted Yarbrough and board member George Riedel.