Direct lender Kartesia hires from JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs
Direct lender Kartesia has announced that it has hired two associates in London and an analyst for its office in Brussels

Citi adds to high yield sales team in London
Citi has announced that it has hired high yield sales specialist Richard Caldwell in London

Avenue loses another key European credit portfolio manager
An experienced credit PM has left Avenue to join a $2.3 billion fund manager in a new role

BNP Paribas Asset Management hires SME lending head
BNP Paribas Asset Management has announced that it has hired Ardian’s former head of US private debt as part of a new private debt and real assets investment group

Senior European investment grade credit trader exits Citi
The head of investment grade single-name credit trading at Citi has left the bank after just nine months

Park Square adds staff in direct lending and names new partners
European mid-market credit specialist Park Square Capital has announced that it has made two hires while also promoting three of its existing staff to the rank of partner

BNP Paribas takes on two credit traders from Goldman Sachs
BNP Paribas is understood to have hired two credit traders from Goldman Sachs to join its investment grade credit trading team in London

Distressed specialist parts company with Oak Hill
Market sources say that a distressed debt specialist has left Oak Hill Advisors in London just months after the firm held the final close on a new $2.7 billion fund

Credit fund manager snaps up BlueMountain's CEO for Europe
BlueMountain has announced leadership changes following the departure of Nicholas Pappas - with sources informing Creditflux that he has signed up with another large fund manager as head of credit

Pension giant AP4’s Erlandsson joins Granit to raise green credit fund
Stockholm-based asset manager Granit Fund has made a big name hire in credit, taking on Ulf Erlandsson with a view to launching a new green bond hedge fund this year

Cairn hires former Magnetar official for PM role on credit opps fund
Cairn Capital has announced that it has hired former Magnetar Capital official Brandon Kufrin as a portfolio manager

Bridgepoint makes high profile hire for push into credit
Private equity firm Bridgepoint has hired a long-serving head of acquisition finance, Debtwire reports

Direct lender Pemberton hires former RBS debt syndicate head
European direct lending specialist Pemberton has announced that it has hired former RBS gobal debt syndicate head Eric Capp as a partner

JP Morgan loses another leveraged finance specialist to the buy side
Reuters is reporting that a levfin specialist is leaving JP Morgan in London to take up a managing director-level role at a large global credit hedge fund manager

Advisor Marlborough hires ex-Lloyds private debt specialist
Debt advisor Marlborough Partners has announced that it has hired Aubrey Simpson-Orlebar, the former head of Lloyds Bank’s debt private placements team

BNP Paribas moves quickly to restaff London high yield trading business
BNP Paribas has moved quickly to restaff its European high yield trading desk, making two new senior hires for the business last week

Direct lenders look to spread their wings and cross the Atlantic
Middle-market lending is becoming a global business amid talks of JVs

BNP Paribas trader joins Aberdeen as head of loans
Aberdeen Asset Management has hired a global head of loans in London, according to a Bloomberg report

Beechbrook heads up north to open Manchester office
Direct lender Beechbrook Capital has opened up a new office in Manchester, according to an announcement this morning

Former ICG credit head Kershaw takes non-executive role on Aberdeen fund
Well-known credit specialist Dagmar Kent Kershaw has taken up a position as a non-executive director at Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust

ICG hires Avenue Capital’s Lockhead for direct lending role
Intermediate Capital Group has announced that it has hired Avenue Capital’s Peter Lockhead for its direct lending business in Europe

Muzinich hires from BlackRock to bolster its direct lending team
Muzinich has made another hire to its offices in Frankfurt with the firm announcing that Markus Taubert will be joining from BlackRock in July