Credit Suisse has strengthened its fixed income team in India with appointments of Rajiv Baruah and Gaurav Pradhan.
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Baruah has been appointed as the Swiss lender’s new managing director and fixed income head, while Pradhan has been named the managing director and head of fixed income sales.
Baruah, who has over 25 years of finance industry experience, has held diverse roles spanning investor sales, treasury and derivatives structuring in Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta and London.
In the new role, he will be tasked with managing the firm’s all fixed income activities in India such as FX, rates, credit and emerging markets financing and trading activities.
He will report to India CEO Mihir Doshi and Asia Pacific fixed income head Brian Yoon.
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By GlobalDataBefore joining Credit Suisse, Baruah served as a managing director for Asian Markets in Singapore at Macquarie Bank since 2011.
At Macquarie, he helped develop an investor sales business for the FX, rates and credit products for clients in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
Before joining Macquarie, Baruah served at Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong and Singapore in the position of head of sales for private wealth management as well as third party accounts.
Pradhan will be tasked with developing and expanding the firm’s client base for fixed income products in India in the new capacity at Credit Suisse.
He will report to Rajiv Baruah and Eng Chien, Southeast Asia and India fixed income sales head.
Pradhan has 20 years of industry experience in onshore and offshore markets focusing on private financing, associated structuring and derivatives products.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Pradhan served at Deutsche Bank, where he worked for 13 years most recently in the position of credit structuring head for South and Southeast Asia.
Before that, he held fixed income and treasury roles at Franklin Templeton Investments and Kotak Mahindra Bank.
