Fitch, the international credit rating agency, has hired Emmanuelle Nasse-Bridier as a senior director in its structured finance group. She had been head of a specialist securities unit at Axa Investment Managers, the French financial services group.

Nasse-Bridier has spent the past five years running Axa Investment Managers' asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities responsible for six people and the management of Axa's specialist securities mutual funds.