Chris Marschall has been appointed Head of Financial Institutions Group for Crédit Agricole CIB (CACIB) Canada, effective July 16, 2021.

Marschall has close to 25 years of investment banking and structured finance experience in several European countries and Asia. He started his career with ABN AMRO in leveraged finance and asset securitization before moving into equity capital markets (ECM). He has managed teams in ECM at an ECM joint venture with Rothschild and also at The Royal Bank of Scotland, with whom he relocated to cover Asia. In 2012, he joined the Asian investment bank CIMB as Head of ECM and Equity Syndicate, North Asia and he led a team focused on originating, structuring and selling ECM deals in North Asia, based in Hong Kong. Chris joins CACIB Canada from his most recent role as Head of ECM, Asia Pacific at CACIB Hong Kong with a focus on origination, structuring and distribution of equity and equity-linked fundraisings (public and private).

As Head of Financial Institutions Group for CACIB Canada, Marschall will lead the coverage efforts and strategy for all of CACIB’s business with Canadian Financial Institutions (pension funds, asset managers, banks and SSAs) globally.

Primarily based in Toronto, Marschall will report locally to Xavier Roux, Senior Country Officer for Crédit Agricole CIB Canada and regionally to Denise de Diego, Head of Financial Institutions Group, Americas.