DZ Bank has made two appointments to its international fixed income sales team, adding to the 12 hires made to the international sales team since September 2004.

Lars Olsen joins DZ Bank's international fixed income sales team from Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where he was head of rates sales to the Nordic region for five years. At DZ Bank he will head a fixed income sales team focusing on Nordic and eastern European markets. He will report to Frank Scheidig, head of international sales.