Commerzbank Securities hired Stan Liberman as a collateralized debt obligation structurer in its structured credit trading group in New York, according to Ed Mitchell, the firm's spokesman. He reports to George O'Dowd, head of structured credit trading, and will be in charge of structuring CDOs and credit-linked notes. Liberman could not be reached to comment.
Prior to joining Commerzbank, Liberman was a director at Winterthur, the insurance arm of the Credit Suisse Group, where he was a director, responsible for structured credit products. It could not be determined to whom he reported.