Lloyds hires leveraged credit director

Paul Osment has joined Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets as director of leveraged credit sales, covering both bonds and leveraged loans. In this newly created role he will be based in London and reports to Martin Bates, head of capital markets sales.

Osment most recently worked as director of credit sales at Evolution Securities, a position he held for around a year until he left in March this year. From 2008 to 2009 he was director in international fixed income sales at Erste Group Bank.