Markit appointed Neil McPherson to manage and expand its structured finance pricing services. as a Managing Director in New York
McPherson will be responsible for Markits US RMBS pricing service, its European ABS service and its North American CDS of ABS service. He will report to Kevin Gould, president of Markit North America.
McPherson joins Markit from NewOak Capital, which is an advisory, asset management, and capital markets services firm. Before this role, he was a managing director and head of the ABS syndicate desk at ABN Amro in New York.
Prior to that, he was a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, where he led asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligation research.