Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank appointed Ivan Hrazdira as managing director, global sponsor of USD Debt Capital Markets.

Based in New York, Ivan reports locally to Mike Kendrot, head of DCM Americas, and globally to Sébastien Domanico, head of Debt Capital Markets.

Ivan has 22 years of experience in fixed income, spanning debt capital markets, sales and trading. He was most recently head of Flow Sales in Global Macro Products at Crédit Suisse.

Between 2009 and 2013, he participated in the development of Crédit Suisse’s Yankee business with European issuers as a senior New York-based sponsor delivering insights on monetary policy, regulatory developments and investment activity.

He occupied various functions at UBS from 1995 to 2009 including head of Government Agency Capital Markets and Trading running the full value chain from origination to distribution of US Agency and US Financial Institutions debt.

“With his wealth of experience and knowledge of the USD markets, I am confident that Ivan will help us take our USD franchise to the next level in line with our multi-currency Debt Capital Markets strategy,” Domanico said.