Credit Suisse builds hedge fund sales

Credit Suisse has hired Paul Gamble, former head of credit sales at Deutsche Bank, as a managing director within its Asia-Pacific fixed-income team.

Based in Singapore, Gamble will focus primarily on the distribution of emerging markets financing products into hedge funds and mezzanine funds. He will report jointly to Carl Bautista, Asia-Pacific head of emerging markets credit, and Savady Yem, Asia-Pacific head of fixed-income sales.

Gamble’s experience at Deutsche, where he helped to build a hedge fund sales team, was clearly an attraction as Credit Suisse aims to develop its emerging markets financing group in the region a team that focuses on structured financing and private...