Crédit Agricole Indosuez (CAI) is looking to add two bankers to its London securitization team that covers Northern Europe. Peter Kappel, head of Northern European ABS, says the firm will hire one origination banker and one structurer. CAI only recently established a London-based ABS effort (BW, 2/4) and is now putting together its first deals, says Kappel. He plans to use CAI's balance sheet fairly aggressively to provide acquisition finance loans, which eventually will be replaced with securitization financing. In the future, CAI's London group will concentrate on heavily structured types of transactions, such as whole business deals, fixed capital and commercial mortgage-backed deals.
Crédit Agricole To Hire In London