BNP Paribas adds eight to corporate fixed income

BNP Paribas has added eight staff to its European fixed-income corporate group.

In London, Heidi Crebo-Rediker will join the sovereigns, agencies and supranationals debt capital market desk as a managing director. She previously headed the sovereigns, agencies and supranationals debt capital market desk at Bear Stearns, and will report to Christopher Marks, head of division at BNP Paribas.

Gabriele Vianello joined the bank in London in May as head of corporate marketing for Italy. He was previously Bank of America's head of debt capital markets for Italy. Also in London, Volker Anhauser has joined Andrew Firth's northern European derivatives marketing group to cover German and Austrian clients.The London ratings advisory group, meanwhile, has taken in Andrew Canwell as a ratings adviser and Francesco Sabatini and Thomas Cuvelier as analysts.

Jacques Delpla, formerly an adviser to the French finance ministry, has joined BNP Paribas' Paris office as an advisor on new government debt products. And in Amsterdam, Herbe van de Merbel will focus on Dutch clients as part of the northern European derivatives marketing group.