Credit Suisse has appointed Dale Westhoff as global head of its structured products research team. Based in New York, Westhoff will continue to develop the bank’s market-leading suite of structured product analytics, with an emphasis on its mortgage-backed security prepayment models.

Most recently, he was head of consumer modeling teams at JP Morgan. Prior to the merger between Bear Stearns and JP Morgan, he was a senior managing director and head of quantitative research at Bear Stearns and has also worked with Hughes Aircraft.

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