BNP Paribas has hired Fred Fiddle to lead the bank's strategic equity and convertible origination business in the Americas, a newly created position. Fiddle will be based in New York and report to Pierre Lapomme, head of equity capital markets, Americas and to Fabrice Hugon, head of structured equity sales, Americas. Before joining BNP Paribas, Fiddle had a 23-year career with Merrill Lynch where he was head of equity linked origination for the Americas from 2001 -2009, after managing global equity linked sales and trading.